An Appreciation Of Luis Rodriguez

Both of you blasted Grand Slams in this great thread. Thanks to you and him.

 

Excellent post.

Slightly off topic but how can I do one of them? I'd like to do one on my top 20 pfp but actually list there individual achievements and compare them.

 

Luis Rodriguez was a great fighter...but he was dull to watch .....am I the only one who thinks so?

 

Yes, you're the only one.

He was a beautiful boxer.

 

I guess just write it up and e-mail some places.

 

Yeah, I think your on your own. He’s great to watch. Maybe the ugliest fights were the Griffith ones but Griffith stunk it out with many entertaining fighters like Tiger for instance.

 

Emile Griffith was terrible to watch, I'm sorry, but it's true.

One of the dullest all timers.

 

yes Indeed

 

That’s probably what it was

 

Is that so? Was he dull before the Paret fight as well?

 

I'm kind of with you, but terrible is too strong a word, IMO

 

is he a top 100 all time great in your opinion?

 

Would he make your top 100 all time fighters list ?

 

Definitely.

I know you didn't ask me but there's your answer

 

Got a chance to sit down today and score the first fight between Emile Griffith and Luis Rodriguez. Scored on the NY rounds basis. Here we go, 10 rounds.

Round 1: Griffith
Round 2: Rodriguez
Round 3: Griffith
Round 4: Rodriguez
Round 5: Rodriguez
Round 6: Even
Round 7: Griffith
Round 8: Rodriguez
Round 9: Rodriguez
Round 10: Rodriguez

Total: 6-3-1 Rodriguez

Actual scores were 6-4 and 5-4-1 Griffith and 5-4-1 Rodriguez. What won it for Luis on my card was simply workrate. Griffith was the stronger of the two but when Griffith clinched - especially in the last 3 rounds - he wanted to clinch. But Luis kept slathering his mid-section with body punches in those clinches. He was tireless and scoring cleanly. IMO, Rodriguez won the bout on workrate.