Yes, very good fight. Hernández won fairly. Cunningham has impressive recuperative power, because he was stumbling all around the ring in the 4th.
thanks IA :good very good rnd by rnd. I am surprised hernandez won barely every round. I mean I knew he was good, but uss is a physical monster and taking round after round from him is not that easy.
Cunningham started out the fight very tentative and defensive. In the first fight if I can remember, he got knocked down in the first round and he didn't want it to happen again. He did the same in rounds 2 and 3 as Hernandez was gaining confidence. After the 3rd round, Nazeem Richardson told Cunningham that he had to pick it up and when he attempted to, he opened up and Hernandez sent him to the canvas, not once, but twice. Cunningham was lucky to survive, but he did and his conditioning showed as he won most of the remaining rounds. You could score the first four rounds, 10-9, 10-9, 10-9, 10-7. Down 40-34, Cunningham built himself a huge hole. I'd say that Cunningham won at least 6 of the remaining 8 rounds. 114-114 is the way I scored it, but I could see perhaps 115-113 for Hernandez. The margin of victory was a little too much for Hernandez, but on the flip side, Cunningham didn't do enough to win!
Does anybody know why Cunningham calls himself "USS Cunningham"? I have a special interest in the old destroyer, the USS Cunningham, DD-752.
Just nominal, I would imagine. :conf Boxers always gravitate towards anything that "sounds cool" and fits with their name.
There must be more to it. He was born in '76 and the USS C. was decommissioned in '71 (and deliberately sunk in '79), so how would he even have known about it?