Boxeo di Primera: Edith Soledad Matthysse vs. Yelene Mrdjenovich RBR

Watching the 8th, 9th and 10th against just to make sure I didn't miss anything.

Mrdjenovich can't be faulted on will to win, that's for sure. She actually took a light pounding in her vain efforts to score a difference-maker, and looked ready to go herself at times from a combination of accumulated damage and fatigue.

I think Christodoulou may have been the most accurate, with the widest of the official cards.

 

Actually the unofficial scorecard of the commentator for TyC Sports may have actually been objectively correct, at 99-91.

 

Upset alert! Matthysse beat Mrdjenovich by UD over ten rounds.

Scorecards were said to be fair by most tweeting observers.

Lucas' sister is said to have pulled a DLH vs. Ortiz and coasted in the last few, running and throwing pot shots as the persistent but tiring Mrdjenovich tried loading up on a turnaround KO shot, but the Argentinian had banked enough points in the first seven or eight to already have the match in the bag. :good

 

Now we can rate the Matthysse clan pound for pound:

1) Lucas Martin
2) Edith Soledad
3) Walter Dario (a distant third, at that...)

Funny, because prior to December of 2013, when Matthysse acquired the WBA regular title for the first time with a UD over the very good Ogleidis Suarez (5-1 in world title bouts), she was considered the black sheep, clearly behind even Walter. Before that she was known for getting stomped every time she tried stepping up, even to WBC silver title level...also losing an IBF world title crack @ bantam as well as several non-title affairs scheduled for 6, 8 and 10 respectively.

Plucky gal, never stopped trying and it has paid off. She has a lot more to show for her career now than Walter, and technically has surpassed the achievements of even Lucas, who only has the WBC Silver belt and and one interim world title reign to his credit, despite obviously facing much stiffer opposition and being the greater h2h gender-4-gender fighter.

 

Learning from Grandpa sounds promising, but if he idolizes and patterns himself after his dad in any way shape or form.. :verysad

Walter really was flat-out terrible.

He packed a tonne more h2h/g4g punch than Edith (in fact, quite a bit of a punch, while Edith has virtually none and thus has needed to do more with less, which makes her ascent even more impressive) but, like a Jason Litzau or Travis Walker type he lacks the ring IQ or chin required to go very far with his power.

 

Stanley's important fight cards are more often than not acceptable.

Lebedev vs. Kalenga, Ward vs. Abraham, Vargas vs. DeMarco, Caballero vs. Barros II, Golovkin vs. Murray at the time of the stoppage, Martinez vs. Chavez, Trout vs. Alvarez - all bang-on correct. He also was the only judge to have Escandon up in his robbery loss to Cermeno (I scored it a draw myself but if either deserved the W it was Escandon...not Cermeno who already had a reputation for receiving gifts, ie the pair over Mijares) and ditto in Erdei vs. Grachev he was the lone voice of reason preventing it from being a UD robbery, scoring it 96-94 to Zsolt but overruled by his peers.

Oh - AND, in Kameda vs. Ruiz, yet another split decision robbery, he was the one that had it for Ruiz.

That makes him 3 for 3 being the sole judge coming away clean in SD robberies.

My only issues with him are having Canelo wide over Trout, and giving Broner a couple rounds too many against Maidana, though he still had Maidana winning comfortably.

His scores for Povetkin over Huck by four points and Geale over Sturm by four points are debatable - some people don't like those scores, but a sizable number also share them. I'd call those mildly controversial but not major F-ups. Even if you dislike those scores, the good on his record still outweighs the few bad spots.

Canelo vs. Trout super wide for the ginger is his only serious error in judgment.

 

By the way, before anybody points out that I disagreed with his Trout vs. Canelo scoring later in that same post - no, I wasn't mentioning that fight redundantly, nor contradicting myself. That mention refers to Austin Trout vs. Rigoberto Alvarez, older brother of Canelo, from whom Trout won his first title. :good

 

You were spot on. :good

I clearly knew it would be worth checking out, too, as I bothered making a RBR thread for it, but the stupid PBC garbage dragged on long enough to overlap with it and I was already committed to it. c