Show some respect to Mijares

He fought like a sleep walking imbecile. Maybe if he had used any of his supposed skills or ring intelligence he wouldn't have gotten starched.

 

You think it was Darchinyan's style or just a bad night that caused these problems?

 

I overrated him big time. Still an exceptionally skilled fighter, just one who's mentality and arrogance are clear causes for concern. He was lured into a slugfest, hurt, frustrated, and unable to get back on track. I honestly thought I saw greatness in him, but he proved me wrong. It wasn't as if he just got caught or even was exposed technically, he just showed he didn't have it upstairs. I confused his supreme arrogance with confidence and intelligence. It seems he's a fighter who, when allowed to fight his fight, thrives, but one that can also be taken off his game, and at this stage he clearly showed an inability to cope when things got out of his control.

 

I hate to sound cliche, but this is boxing and it happens. You win some and you lose some. Vic proved to be the better fighter tonight. It doesn't mean Mijares isn't good, or was never good he just lost tonight to the better fighter. Mijares is still a very good fighter and if Darchinyan made a successful comeback at 32 I think Mijares being 27 has a good chance.

 

What is remotely great about Mijares? He didn't try for ****. He acted like he was sleep walking. He got up from a knockdown. Whoopdee ****ing doo. That's part of what makes you a boxer, and takes you to any sort of accomplishment, is the ability to take some sort of punishment. But Kelly Pavlik showed more grit in getting up from a KD and then stopping his man; not getting up and running around the ring not throwing punches for the rest of the fight until eventually being stopped. He would do stuff that worked and then stop doing it and return to running every time Vic threw something at him. That shows no willpower or mental focus, it shows he let his flight response get the better of him.

 

Props to Mijares...but its not too farfetched to say that he has been vastly overrated here at ESB. Dayaaam, he lost every round. He couldn't adjust....got outboxed by a supposedly inferior boxer. There was nothing about that performance that says he deserved all the accolades he had been getting. Wasn't there some guy here who was calling him a boxing god?....that knucklehead Amsterdam?

 

I still think he's very capable of winning if he's able to learn from this, keep his head on straight, and stick to fighting his fight, but while the jury is still out, he proved that I was definitely overrating him at the stage he's at now. We'll see what happens in the future, or in a rematch.