"Hilario has, like my good buddy Kant always liked to say, all the mental intangibles needed to stretch these rounds out long enough - just long enough - to take Honorio... into some deep incompatible waters."
Yeah honorio dominated from the second to the tenth and started to gas but he pulled off a clear win. He had hilario down twice in one round-- He exposed hilario who needs to set and square himself when he throws punches
You almost got your late stoppage on the prediction thread Ricardo. Do you think Honorio is a legit top 10 contender?
Not really the last two opponents he beat were not well rounded. I don't think he could make top 5 but maybe lower ten, he is definitely not championship materiel.
Agreed he is 10 at best, more like a gate keeper. He is dangerous though for any prospect as his last 2 previous undeafeated opponents found out. He also took Luevanos O.
That is actually Mills Lane from his fightin' days. He does resemble Kenny Lane though, doesn't he? He just got an award so I changed my avi and signature for him.
I remember the quick ko Guerrero served him. I honestly think Guerrero is on the verge of Making my top ten p4p list.
I think it's a little from column A and a little from column B. You know what fight it reminds me of? Roman Karmazin vs. Dionisio Miranda. A well-schooled vet who's not a complete athlete but just a smart and competent boxer and tough enough to absorb a few bombs (but still vulnerable and therefore needing to stay intelligent) putting on a clinic against a slugger displaying not a lick of technical prowess. Of course, Miranda did far better than Hilario, who didn't win a minute of any one round. At a stretch he put together maybe thirty good seconds at a time. And over 12 rounds he did that twice, maybe three times. Honorio had to stay on his toes and keep pumping his mittens - any mistakes or prolonged moments of uncertainty/hesitation and Hilario could've gotten a lucky KO win he didn't deserve. He does have at least decent (if not world class) power, and Honorio can be badly hurt in a hurry. You have to give Honorio a ton of credit for keeping up what he did for a full 12. In a fifteen rounder, he may have been in trouble. That championship water saw him treading a bit. Props to him for having the heart and the skillset to dig down and finish strong. Hell, he hammered on Hilario for the last minute despite basically gasping and obviously having arms that felt like a construct of lead (forearms) and jelly (upper). Hilario is a cautionary tale for all of us who get too excited too fast based on a fancy highlights package. Probably speaking for a good many posters who picked Hilario - I knew how good Honorio was, but was so impressed by a Youtube clip compiling a few minutes of footage and threw my lot in with the prospect. Fool me once, shame on me.
i never seen either of them fight before but i have heard of hilario and i heard he was decent. i knew from about the first 30 seconds of the fight it would be a long night for him. i honestly think that was his plan. to get lucky and maybe catch him going backwards but sometimes you have to set up that luck. he had no set up punches and was almost put out by a guy that doesn't have very good power. he was probably fighting tomato cans to keep that record. he's a low c class fighter at best. maybe even a d class lol. atleast if he fights like that. he needs a new trainer imo.
"Ya look at the physical size...of a guy like Honorio...and you say "well it's like a skyscraper...how do I climb a skycraper to get to the top?" Well you can do it many ways....but the best way for Hilario...is to go inside the building and take the elevator to the top. Start at the bottom floor...the body and just work your way up with that elevator. Don't get off any floors. Start at the bottom and then combination your way to the top of the skyscraper. By the time you get to the top of the skyscraper, you've already been to every floor in the skyscraper. You know the building. If you know the building...then it's a lot easier to get to the top quickly. " then Tessitore will plug something like a game or something of that nature