Lacier vs Roman Trilogy

Been watching one of my favrouite fights out of one of my favrouite trilogies. Gilberto Roman vs Santos Lacier II.

There not on Youtube which is annoying.

Anyway the first bout is a good styles mix as Roman looks to move and box while Lacier takes center ring and looks to use his head movement to get inside and counter Roman. Really sets the tone and the stylisitc difference for the whole trilogy.

I had Roman nicking it

Lacier: 1,3,7,8,11
Roman:2,4,5,6,9,10,12
Total: 115-113 Roman (7-5)

The second bout is the best one. Both guys show excellant skills and are constantly ad******g to each other to stay on top. The bout starts the same as the first as Roman jabs and moves and Lacier takes his time looking to get in and counter.

Early on Lacier looks absoloute class using his head movement to step inside Roman and counter with short right ahnds and left hooks. It's the best I have seen Lacier box and he looks absoloutle superb doing so. Roman gets cut up very bad early on.

Roman then starts to stand his ground and pushes Lacier back with a solid workrate and stiff shots. Lacier lands some good counters but is getting outworked and Roman is landing fairly decent aswell.

Lacier then gets up on his toes and starts boxing superbly as he catches Roman coming in with counters then bounces away, never seen this before from Lacier so it was a brilliant tactical move by him. However in the 8th Lacier abandons the boxing and works his way inside and pushes Roman back - a total role reversal and is amazing to watch.

Roman retaliating to Lacier's aggresiveness has to get on his bike and looks to keep the fight at longrange and is fairly sucessfull when Lacier takes a rest from his hard workrate.

The 10th provides the best of the action as Lacier still looking to press is met head on by Roman who starts to push Lacier back in an inside battle. Roman really looks strong and is constantly pushing Lacier back but Lacier is landing some really classy counters, which makes the action even better.

The bout is stopped early in the 11th due to Romans cuts, abit of a shame was really a greta bout and the scores would have been interesting. All the judges had Roman winning, which I disagree with. IMO this is one of Laciers best performances.

Lacier: 2,3,4,7,8,10
Roman:1,5,6,9
Total:96-96 Lacier (6-4)

The third fight is when both guys are slightly past it IMO. Lacier especially. I havent watched it in a while so can't remember too much about it, except that Roman gets back to his boxing and keeps the bout at long range to get a well deserved decision.

Lacier: 2,6,8,11,12
Roman:1,3,4,5,7,9,10,11
Total:115-113 Roman (7-5)

All in all a brilliant trilogy.

Anyone got any thoughts on the fights/fighters/trilogy?

 

A sucess of a thread.

 

I watched it about a year ago before and had it like this

Lacier: 2,3,6,7,9,11,12
Roman:1,4,5,8,10
Total: 115-113 Lacier (7-5)

So a draw was fair, What was your round breakdown?

It is quite a hard fight to score though, very close.

That's fair enough, it was a closeish fight, but Lacier was past it.

Did you have it exact same way? if so thats a shocker.

And it is one of my favrouite Flyweight fights ever.

Definitly, I am a big fan of Lacier. Like his style. He shows in the 2nd Roman fight his full repertoi IMO. The way he counter-punches, boxes and pressures all exceptionally well. He was also very sound defensivly and carried a good dig.

I had Zapata a 10-5 to Lacier, he did real well in that fight.

I havent seen the complete Magri fight and it has been a while. From what I remember Lacier did real well but kind of drifted in and out of the fight and concentration and Magri outworked him at points. I also remember Lacier's jab being superb when he used it.

Have not seen teh Herrera rematch.

 

Nice one. The second one is a really good fight, I think you would like it how both men showcase a wide variety of skills.

Tiger vs Giardello IV is a very good fight, absoloutly love it. Enjoy!

 

Their not exactly casual fans type of fights except maybe the second one. Its more a fight for proper boxing fans who appreciate technique and skills and tactics. But yeh they should have been given more notice.

Out of interest how do you rate Roman?

 

Very different scorecard. It was a difficult fight to score though, will watch it again sometime this week.

Aye, I was really impressed by the adaptability of both guys but also how well they did when fighting in unfamiliar ways. Very impressive.

Will have to find a copy of the Herrera rematch.

The Zapata fight aint the best, I think I just gave it to Lacier on workrate. Zapata must thought he could win a fight purely on defence.

 

I will need to watch it again, I honestly can't remember anything about it.

Two defensively sound guys is often boring.