the what fights did you watch today\scorecard thread.

:think I probably do, but I need to check. The earliest fight that I have of his is in 1994 against Israel Gonzalez. Which ones are you interested in?

 

That was on the undercard of Marco Antonio Barrera vs Eddie Cook. MAB had fought Gonzalez earlier that year, stopping him in 8 rounds.

Any fights, T. I would like to see more of JMM's early years. You know what to do. :thumbsup

 

That fighter hadn't lost in 20 years

 

Huh?

 

Troll mode, B? Nice.

I'm currently watching Donovan Ruddock outbox Carlos Hernandez. Has there ever been as pronounced change in style than there was in Donovan's career? He's barely threw a power shot at all through six rounds, dominating the fight almost exclusively with the jab. Ruddock would always lead with left hooks later on in his career, not even bothering to throw a jab. Crazy.

 

Hiroshi Kawashima vs Carlos Gabriel Salazar

Round 1- 10-10
Round 2- 10-9 Salazar
Round 3- 10-9 Kawashima
Round 4- 10-9 Kawashima
Round 5- 10-9 Kawashima
Round 6- 10-9 Salazar
Round 7- 10-9 Kawashima
Round 8- 10-9 Kawashima
Round 9- 10-9 Kawashima
Round 10-10-9 Kawashima
Round 11- 10-9 Kawashima
Round 12- 10-9 Salazar

I´ll watch more of Kawashima, good fighter....

 

Penalosa schooled this kid something awful.

 

Interesting...I´ll try to watch this later.....

 

Leonard/Duran 2.
I can see giving the first and fifth to Duran. However a 7-0 lead for Leonard is reasonable.
Leonard beat Duran on the outside and the inside. Bascialy Leonard spent the first six rounds beating the **** out of Duran. He started to play with Duran in the seventh and made Duran quit in the eighth round.

 

Its alright like.

You should watch some more flyweights great action.

Yeh amazing, Espadas actually looks a tidy technician throughout it

Good man, scholar and a gentleman.

The best 2 Heavyweight fights series IMO, First fight is brutal

 

Micky Ward vs Emanuel Augustus

Very close brutal slugfest

I gave it to Ward by a point due to the knockdown

Ward rounds: 2,3,6,9,10
Augustus rounds: 1,4,5,7,8

= Micky Ward 95-94

 

Kuniaki Shibata vs Susumu Okabe

This is Shibata after losing to Alfredo Escalara by brutal KO. And this is a very tasty ten rounder.
Okabe is a bit of a brawler, and shows: fast feet, steady pressure, nice head movement and good punching form (if a lack of straight punching.) He is obviously a talented fighter, but he takes a wee while to get going in this fight.

Shibata starts off in great form, popping the jab at range, right into Okabe’s face, and the times that Okabe did get through into range, Shibata would show lovely counter combinations then slide out of range, really nice stuff.
In the fourth Okabe started to come on, he upped his pressure and workrate and closed the distance well with his feet whilst coming in with sharp hooks then working the body. Shibata struggled as Okabe upped the workrate, and tended to drift into defensive mode rather than counter back, allowing his offensive output to really tail off.

Okabe kept it up as the fight progressed as Shibata favoured a long-range game and was piling the points up with his jab, however around the seventh Shibata started to mix it more and more and his sharp counters really caught the eye.

The ninth round was superb two-way toe to toe action as both guys battled it out, Shibata came off superior with a crisp combination hurting Okabe near the end of the round, but Okabe fought back bravely. The tenth had some more action just not on that level.
I was impressed with Shibata here, he shows lovely offensive manoeuvres tied down with solid defensive skills and awareness, however he was occasionally just caught off guard with silly shots, regularly throughout the fight.

Alberto Davila vs Rodolfo Martinez
This was an eliminator for a shot at Zarate who had just dethroned Martinez as WBC champion.
Davila starts brilliantly, he kept the pressure on Martinez forcing him back then took advantage of any mistakes Martinez did with hard sharp counters, but it was the speed of Davila that was really surprising Martinez.

Martinez didn’t look that good on the backfoot, against Zarate I was impressed in the way he found angles to launch his counters off the backfoot, but here he just jabbed cautiously as he retreated, and Davila expertly out jabbed him and stepped in with counters. I love watching Davila outjab bigger guys, he is so effective at it.

In the third Davila for whatever reason shuts down offensively and allows Martinez to take the round by virtue of a busier and steadier jab. However, Davila regains control in the fourth.
Martinez turns southpaw in the fifth and sixth and takes the front foot and is effective as he forces Davila back with a right jab, then pumping combinations off of it. However, he is really open as a southpaw and Davila takes advantage of this in the sixth by resorting to countering and does a great job.

Martinez reverts to orthodox for the seventh but a lovely right hand lead by Davila drops him heavily, Martinez is up and Davila assaults him with both hands before finding another right hand that sends him down again, he recovers and a Davila combination drops him but he gets up. Martinez gets back up and survives on his feet for a good minute and a half and looks to be surviving the round before the ensuing Davila storm eventually just blows him off his feet.

 

I have Shibatas final two fights (at Lightweight) to watch. Not sure if that is one of 'em Greg, but Kuniaki was a very skilful operator, love watching him. Despite being vulnerable he was brave, but seemed disheartened when actually knocked off his feet.

As I say, love watching him work though. Also have the Echegaray fight to watch, which by all accounts was a robbery, will have to get round to all that.

 

Aye his last two is that one and Al Espinoza, was going to watch it but stuck on Davila vs Pintor II instead.

His skillfull but careless IMO, at times he looks **** out like before gettin sparked by Villaflor, he looks amazing.

 

Yep, Villaflor didn't pace himself like he did in the first fight he imposed his size on Shibata early. Kuniaki fired off on him and got caught.

Very impressive and talented fighter without being 'great', I'd favour him against most non-punchers, his upper body movement and left hook were slick as ****