Óscar Andrés Rivas vs. Ryan Rozicki & Terry Geffrard Osias vs. Joaquin Adrián Murrieta Lucio RBR

Yeah **** staying up for this one at this point.

 

This time the favourite is dropped in the opening round, interesting.

 

I remember that first cruiserweight title fight. Mate Parlov was a former light heavyweight champ. I didn't know who Marvin Camel was. It ended in a draw. I thought they would drop the whole idea.

But they had the rematch on the untelevised undercard of Holmes-Leroy Jones. Didn't even know who won until I bought a boxing magazine a few months later.

Most thought of it as a place where old light heavyweights would go to die.

Nobody in the States really paid attention until Leon Spinks moved down years later.

But that was when the limit was 190.

The fact that one guy came in tonight 21 pounds under the limit ... and Rivas is probably in the 230s by now kind of defeats the whole purpose of providing a space where guys don't have to give up so much weight.

Oscar's opponent said he had to gorge himself to get up to 203.

 

Quite a good slug fest

 

How long before the Rivas fight guys?

 

A four rounder and a six rounder, so about an hour.

 

Clean boxing performance from Osias...Sweep all three cards.

 

Murrieta's a bit bitter than his record suggests, or at least capable of upending the occasional undefeated guy...But based on what I saw Osias had it pretty much his own way from bell to bell. He wasn't spectacular, but he was clearly in control against a guy who appeared to have more potential to trouble him than the other B-sides had versus their respective A-side opponents.