Footage thread

My computer wont be able to play it. Will watch it ASAP, though.

 

Just watched it McGrain. I saw it pretty much the same way you saw it, although I'm certain there are going to be those out there who gave Gonzalez his dues for the clean body-punching. If Ibarra had a shaky chin he sure made up for by having an iron mid-section. He seemed to almost bait Gonzalez into throwing that left hook to the body so he could counter it with the right hook to the head. Excellent lead left as well.

I was impressed. Ibarra really seems like my kind of stylist. A thinking, calculating fighter who knew how to execute. He definitely didn't strike me as the type where you could simply rely on that puncher's chance against. Too organised.

Not sure he'd beat Arbachakov, though. Gonzalez seemed made to order for someone like Ibarra, whereas Yuri, while being a very patient, methodical fighter in his own right, also had excellent footwork. That would help him to close the distance more effectively in getting off his combinations than the steady, but plodding Gonzalez.

I'll have to give the Herrera fight a watch to be sure.

 

Have you got Kalule vs Joo yet though McGrain.

 

Lora would do that sort of thing a lot. Marcel did something similar in the footage I've seen of him as well. I think Ibarra reminded me more of Marcel than any other that comes to mind.

 

I've always been impressed at how calmly Gaby waited and picked his shot in this bout, i dont think he was as hurt as Lora thought he was considering how Lora reacted to theoriginal knockdown, maybe as you say he got a rush of blood after the knockdown.

Has anyone seen more of Gaby? I would love to see more and im always trying to keep an eye out.

The only other fight i've seen was vs Chandler. Very entertaining fight, early on i thought Gaby showed enough that he could beat Chandler but let it slip away down the stretch, a little disappointing in that respect, but very entertaining no the less

 

My card, for what it's worth:

Luis Ibarra vs. Betulio Gonzalez: 144-143 Ibarra
Gonzalez: 2,4,8,12,13 and 14.
Ibarra: 1,3,7,,9,10,11 and 15.
Rounds 5 and 6 even.

I don't have the time right now to rewatch the fight and try and reassess my scoring of the fight, or to defend why I scored it the way I did (fight isn't that clear in my memory), but I might give it a look later on if anyone is gobsmacked at how ridiculous my card is :good

 

It seemed all the good Flyweights with notable talents were fighting for the WBA when things got split.Ibarra, Herrera, Kim, Mathebula, an aging but still solid Betulio and then Laciar shored things up.

The WBC champions were a weak revolving door by comparison.

I hadn't seen Ibarra against Herrera before.From what i've looked at just now reminds me a bit of Espadas against Alfonso Lopez, though Lopez was doing quite a bit better.

 

Another excellent one, McGrain. Herrera had an awkward rigidness to his style, but all the same he seemed very controlled and economical. Awesome performance from him all around. He didn't give Ibarra any one angle until he'd really started to soften him up in the middle rounds, at which point he went all out on the pressure. Those brutal body-head attacks against the ropes for sustained periods of time are what caused him to wilt. Nothing out of the ordinary about the stoppage. You just can't keep taking a beating like that one.

 

herrera had better legs than Gonzalez did at that point too.He could better cope with Ibarra's own quick feet.

Gonzalez was still a good fighter, but had become a straight line flat footed Tito-esque boxer from the waist down.