Codrington needs a LONGGGGGGG rest!

The ref stopped it just right - he looked completely out on his feet. In fact, he wandering off towards a corner as the ref was waving it off.

To me, he looked ready to go THROUGHOUT the fight. There were several times when it looked like he was stumbling back to his corner after a round ended. Some time off would probably be good.

 

Coordington was fighting on heart, it was only the hope of 750,000 $ that kept him standing so long. He was taking a lot of big shots.

 

Codrington was all heart tonite and i commend him, but he should've went to Bika's body when he had him on ***** street in the 1st...Bika was done and should've been finished, but after that Codrington should've boxed...he kept trying to KO Bika with one punch, but could've outboxed Bika easily with his jab and quick left hook...Codrington was clearly the better fighter, but he chose to slug with a slugger and got slugged out...

 

damn right...great fight

 

Poor kid got caught up in the moment. Every time he got up on his toes in the middle rounds, I was thinking "use your jab!", but he'd quit throwing it. And then Buddy walked him straight into that uppercut with the "lean in" advice...

 

I'll tell you what is funny, how many people on here were saying Coddrington by KO before the fight.
Do you people even watch boxing? There was NOTHING to suggest that Bika is likely to be KOd anytime soon and yet plenty to suggest that for all his nice looking offensive skills Coddrington is vunerable.

If someone picked Coddrington by points then fair enough, but I was looking in disbelief last night at all the KO picks. Calzaghe winning almost every round with a bad cut (from a headbutt) against Bika is starting to look less and less like a bad performance I guess.

 

Also Calzaghe didnt even spar one round for that fight.

 

Spot on!!:good

 

Bika would treat Allan Green the same way that he dealt with Codrington.

 

i picked codrington on skills.

cos i thought bika could be outboxed.

although i knew bika would be pumped with all that money on the line.

codrington messed up bigtime by the sounds of it. atsch

 

No...it's just that he wasn't yet good enough to beat a Top 10 guy like Bika...but he is still young! His chin ain't great, but he has skills and a lot of heart, and these, properly applied, can take him a long way...(but not all the way). Codrington is supposed to have made a hell of a fight - he just didn't box enough, apparently, but then, Bika was never going to let him...)

 

Tough way to earn a living.Both guys will be suspended for 60 days I would suspect.We should have more fights where the winner gets the lions share and the loser much less.:good

 

Great fight. Yea All Floyd's fights should be like this maybe then he will actaully Fight and show us his full range of amazing skills.

 

Codrington's footwork was horrible and he used the wrong strategy entirely. He had Bika SERIOUSLY hurt in the first, but couldn't finish him off, and seemed to punch himself out too much to stick with an outside gameplan. He needed to be throwing twice as many punches as he was throwing to win rounds, and he needed to stick Bika with straighter punches.

Strike - there is now plenty to suggest that Bika could be KOed by the right person. Codrington almost had him out twice, but once he couldn't connect cleanly after hurting him in the first, and later he didn't have the energy tro finish him off when he was staggering around.

Round 1 was good, but the rest of the fight was just sloppy and frustrating IMHO. I didn't think it was a particularly great fight.