It was to Yonnhy Perez, and was later avenged in dominant fashion. Sidorenko did NOT beat him "fair and square". Mares did NOT beat him "fair and square". Agbeko has outfought (and ought to hold official wins over) every man he's ever shared the ring with. His REAL but unofficial record: 30-1 (22)
Even the Perez fight was damn ****ing close. The worst thing is, officially Agbeko has four knockdowns against his name, and not one of them fully legitimate.
Was just thinking the same thing. Perez-headbutt Vic-push down and we know what happened in the Mares fight.
The first one was a clear win for Yonnhy. King Kong left absolutely no doubt about who the better man was in the rematch, though.
I haven't seen it, but it wouldn't surprise me a bit given Kong's hard luck. Seems like I generally score fights pretty similarly to how you do as well, so watching it now would probably just get me pissed off. I've done a ton of bitching tonight, so it's time to end it on a positive note....I'm really glad they didn't screw Kong against Darchynian. That was really the fight he needed to win in order to get a real opportunity at staying on a major network and landing big fights. If boxing was going to rob him, at least it wasn't against Vic- and he's been able to land some good fights afterwards because of it.
Was a good fight, but to be truthful both started getting real dirty. Agbecko with the rabbit punches and Mares with the low blows. A draw might of been fair with Mares landing more and Agbeko landing the bigger telling punches. I usually give the fighter with the more punches landed the win, but I do admit Mares smacking Agbekos marbles as much as Agbeko was rabbit punching Mares. Agbeko didn't win this IMO that's for sure. A rematch should happen.
You've sent me digging into the files. You've opened Pandora's box. (117-111 Agbeko btw) Agbeko has had seven significant world-level 12-round bouts - six for actual world titles, plus the Euro title "loss" to Sidorenko. Six have gone the distance. He is officially 4-3 (1) in them, but should be 6-1 (1). 79 total rounds between them. By my reckoning, he has won 54 and lost 25 of those rounds. This is purely rounds won (not accounting for extra or deducted points): 9 to 3 against Sid 7 to 0 against L. Perez 8 to 4 against Gonzalez 7 to 5 against Darchinyan 5 to 7 against Y. Perez the first time 10 to 2 against Y. Perez in the rematch 8 to 4 against Mares 54 rounds won. 25 rounds lost. He has won twice as many rounds as he has lost over the course of his seven major twelve round bouts. (at least on my scorecards, which some folks agree with and others sometimes do not). To put it another way: in his big important fights, he does the better work 68% of the time. That is impressive by anyone's standards. Very long posts to follow....