It wasn't like chamber was dominating the fight, and atlas had chambers up by three rounds, so not putrid but not great. I think he made it more close than it was, because he wsa just pissed at chambers for not doing much.
I used to like Teddy, but he was muted after the 4th tonight. Something in him has snapped. His cards are barely justifiable lately, and he calls what he wants to see as often as he calls what he sees. Hopkins needs to finish his locution courses and retire SOON.
A trainer sometimes is looking at the next fight while this fight is going on...I think that point that Teddy was making is really going over the heads of some that think that he was wrong in what he was saying...I think that Teddy was making some valid points, those being that 1 Chambers was taking for granted that he had won some rounds and relexed in the later rounds, a point in which he admitted to in the post fight interveiw. 2 he gave Peter a chance to be in the fight when he could have taken control and really dominated, or maybe even got Peter to quit. Chambers was making the fight harder and closer then it should have been, and his one lose came when he did very little in a fight in terms of letting his hands go. Peter is fat and lazy , that may not be the case in Chambers next fight.
Maybe it's because he was afraid of could of gotten KOed? And Chamber is not going to knockout Samuel Peter. Chambers did land some good right hands.
He could've KOed Peter anytime form about the 5th or 6th round on... after a while Chambers didn't even have to be afraid of anything coming back from Peter as he was gassed, had nothing behind his punches, and was even moving back away form Eddie as a clear sign that the guy had nothing left. Chambers may not be a big banger, but he had a dead man infront of him tonight and didn't want to close the show.
teddy atlas, despite a history in the sport that ought to give him at least some sense of the basic logic and physical geometry of a boxing match, he seems as lost, clueless and prone to making truly foolish comments you might expect out of someone watching boxing for the first time in their life. i am not sure if he is simply that bad at expressing himself...that he knows what is going on, but cannot articulate it properly...or that he is actually dumb enough that a lifetime of exposure to the sport has left him a kind of permanent amnesiac with no ability to relate one experience to the next.
I only saw the last 5 rounds and I did not see a dead man walking in Peter. Fatigue wise, they both looked a bit gassed. If Chambers fought the way Atlas wanted him to he may have been KTFO.
I dunno. I scored the fight differently than Atlas (as always) but we were both screaming at Chambers to throw that damn left hook. I doubt he could have ko'd Peter (Chambers is too lazy for that, even if he had the power, and that's not going to change) but he could have at least worked on that puffy right eye of Peter.
Atlas may be biased against some guys, but it's not like he's dishonest about it - there's no way you'll ever be unsure if he likes a fighter or not. Plus, he sticks by his opinions. You're not going to hear him yell, "Samuel Peter has TURNED BACK TIME!!!111one" every time he shuffles his way through a round. Neither are you going to hear him nuthugging a different boxer each Friday, depending on who won last weekend. When he does change his opinion on someone, you generally get to hear him admit to it. I don't always agree with him and I doubt anyone other than him does, but I respect his opinion and experience. Maybe every third or fourth Friday, I learn something from his commentary that I either didn't notice right away or hadn't thought about in a while. Would I want to be stuck at a dinner party with him? Nope, but I'll usually keep the volume on for FNF anyway.