Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez vs. Manuel "Meny" Jimenez

Does anybody know what happened?

This card aired on TV Azteca, but most of us were preoccupied with Martinez vs. Macklin on HBO (and later DeMarco vs. Roman on the free stream on the WBC website)

It was a non-title tuneup for Chocolatito's fourth defense of the WBA light flyweight championship next month against Ramon Garcia Hirales. A loss or even a humdrum decision win against Jimenez would be embarrassing missteps for him.

 

Huh.

The Scenesters don't mention anything about a dive. :think


Palenque de Gallos in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico - Nicaraguan WBA junior flyweight champion Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez wasted no time, as he scored a first round knockout over Mexico's Manuel "Meny" Jimenez at 2:58 of a non-title bout. Gonzalez looked anxious to throw big punches from the opening bell. He jumped to the center of the ring and threw calculated power punches right away. Jiminez was taking damage early. Jiminez continued to take punishment until he had enough after going down at the end of the first. Gonzalez improves his record to 31-0, with 26 knockouts, while Jimenez falls to 11-3-1, 5 KOs. "Chocolatito" is scheduled to return on April 21 in Morelia, Mexico against former world champion Ramon "Prince" Garcia.

 

Here is the knockout:

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What moron(s) called that a dive? :-(

Sure, Meny took the knee twice and stayed down the second time - but Chocolatito was ripping his body apart with power combos for the whole two minutes it lasted.

The first knee, you could see by his body language the whole time he's drifting back toward the ropes that Jimenez wants to stall and get a reprieve. When he finally went down, it was as Gonzalez was flipping an uppercut into his face. So if that's what made people think it was "strange", that the uppercut that barely looked like it landed hard if at all, was what caused the KD - then those people are idiots and don't understand the concept of a weak fighter just taking a knee after taking an accumulation of damage.

The second knee as well, it wasn't from any one clean flush power shot, but Gonzalez was unloading viciously. Meny found that soft spot on the canvas and conceded.

That isn't a "dive" (as in a premeditated arrangement where you go in with the intent to lose already in your mind before the opening bell even sounds).

That was "****, this guy hits hard. **** this, I don't want none! What was I thinking even signing up for this?"

Maybe it's just some people not grasping the proper terminology.

What Jimenez did is quit, when the going got tough (hell, when the going started to get even mildly unpleasant).

Completely ****ing different from taking a dive (which means that he fixed or threw the fight)