Footage thread

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Young Cuevas smashes up Sammy Garcia. Epic sections in an exciting fight. Keep an eye peeled for the shot Garcia ditches by sitting flat on his ass, having been propped on the ropes.

 

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A chance for a look at Bassey, all be it with film a the wrong rate. It can't disguise Bassey's speed though, nor the aggression of both fighters in what was Bassey's first defence of his world title. A great lead hook and counter-right cover from some technical issues in footwork and his being muscled on occasion by an apparently freakishly strong Moreno. Good fight, some excellent punching.

 

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Endo seems to be winning this one all over, but every time Little Red lands that shot...

 

Yeah, you're bang on, he tosses it out almost in self defence - you might almost say indifferently?

 

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Cracking wee scrap this one, they have a genuinely violent beginning that cools off a bit as Haugen starts working on Calvin's rythym, trying to break back into a fight that he was never really out of, but was apparently trailing on the cards. Not the puncher in the fight, toughman Hague nevertheless proves to be the more dangerous of the two, inspite of Calvin's status as the favourite. Some nice tactical nuances in an exciting give and take affair, quite a rare marriage that. Calvin sinks into ignomy before trying an ill-advised two fight comeback in the late 90's, Haguen crossed swords with some of the best fighters of a truly great era, and would win his fair share.

Check out the first few minutes for a genuinely candid interview with Calvin.

 

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Ramos, unbeaten and still a teenager, steps into this fight against one of the word's best when original opposition feels through - it's a big step up against another top 10 ranked opponent, and one who definitely hasn't come to lose. As Ramos tries to work his way through styles in search of a solution to his toughest ever opponent we're treated to a fast-paced action-fueled dust up of a very high technical standard.

Judges cards: 5-4-1, 5-4-1, 6-4

I had it to Suh, 7-3:

Suh: 1,2,5,6,8,9,10
Ramos: 3,4,7

 

That's not off topic at all chum,feel free.

 

Totally agree on the jab Sal, the commentary make a fuss of his bodywork, but Mando's best stuff comes off the jab. Kang makes it very very difficult to establish any kind of rhythm though, and when he needs to, he just walks in and throws at the back of that punch making Mando a bit lairy where he perhaps needed to be disciplined (The type of thing that comes with experience).

Mando did say that Kang didn't hurt him at all, and if he'd "known that earlier" he'd have been after him (Boxrec). The film does contradict that story, but I wonder if Mando wasn't a little to respectful, and felt that within himself, and this is what he meant? Certainly he lays the blueprint for beating Kang in their own fight (jab-right hand, body-head when they mix) without really scrapping the bottom of any tactical barrier but just didn't seem like he could get to work.

Great fight though.

 

It doesn't hurt of course that Kang was a very, very good fighter. He's the pleasant surprise here, I was basically expecting the exact scenario you describe above when I watched it in fact, Kang is a better than awkward and difficult, he's a horrible ******* for a young fighter to run up against.

Weird the way his record is massively inflated in commentary (as is that GI story), but he's still very much the experienced man.