Marlon Starling vs. Pipino Cuevas

I think Starling stops Pipino late. Cuevas takes too many punches and Marlon was pretty accurate.

 

With what offense? Starling didnt beat Breland in a rematch and he actually lost to Bumphus. Cuevas stops this punching bag in 9.

 

Cuevas was chinny and easy to hit. You need to watch the Bumphus fight again. He beats a bum like Cuevas. Cuevas was lucky to be champ.

 

When Marlon "Shut up Shop" his defense was very hard to penetrate, he could also emerge very quickly from this defensive postrure, to fire rapid combinations, before going into his shell again, to await his next raid, this defensive ability would i think defuse pipino's dangerous Early attacks, and leave him much frustrated, particularly when Marlon starts to Counter him, Honeygan, a much better technition then Pipano found out that Storming Starling can turn out a painful affair, barring any Molinaries type fluke shots, i can see pipino being Frustrated and Countered to a late stoppage, he was very upright and there to be hit by a craftsman of the calibre of Starling,

If a Shifty Andy Hawk Price and beat a young Pipino, i think a Shifty and much more Powerful Starling can beat an Older Cuevas.

 

Tomas Molinares. That's the guys name who got the lucky punch on Marlon. **** Larry Hazzard and shame on him for giving Molinares the belt.

 

Hazzard was an excellent referee. Molinares' win was well deserved and Starling shouldnt have dropped his guard. Cuevas crushes the no offense, gun shy Starling in 9. Leonard does the job in 14.

 

How many defenses did Starling make? Not very many and he kept losing the title. He pretty much turned out the way i expected - a ham and egger who could only win the title once Curry was out of the picture.

Cuevas made 10 defenses in all. That means luck had nothing to do with it and I'm more than sure some of his challengers would take care of Starling. Starling is the most overrated fighter of our time.

 

Peace, guys.

 

IMO this fight would resemble Starling/Aquino quite a bit...Starling by UD

 

I see Starling outboxing Cuevas and winning a decision

 

No it really wasn't. I saw the whole fight from start to finish. The punch landed after the bell, and Starling was well ahead at that point. The fight was later ruled a no contest.

 

Cuevas may not have had a pretty looking record on paper, but he was tuff as nails, and he put together some 11 title defenses. That said I still agree that Starling beats him, but not as easy as some may think. Marlon didn't have the devastating arsenal that Hearns had. This would probably go to the cards.

 

The real Magic Man (some imposter 'stole' the nickname recently) pitches an almost shutout. Cuevas remains dangerous until the mid-rounds though.

Starling by UD.

 

OPEN SCORE OR SORE?

New York Post
December 8, 2006 -- LITTLE ROCK, Ark. The World Boxing Council is capable of implementing policies that actually improve boxing, such as requiring periodic weigh-ins leading up to a fight. But the WBC is also capable of making some questionable moves, too, such as the open scoring system that will be used tomorrow night when Jermain Taylor defends his middleweight championship against Kassim Ouma (HBO, 10 p.m. EST).
Under a system recently adopted by the WBC, the judges' scores will be announced at the end of the fourth and eighth rounds, making fighters, corner men, media and fans aware of who is ahead. "I don't think it's good," said Lou Duva, the long-time trainer and boxing guru. "I don't like it."
Similar open-scoring systems have been tried before and were often exploited to benefit one fighter or the other. Clearly, a fighter who is comfortably ahead may decide not to engage further and spend the rest of the fight running around the ring. But it can become more scandalous than that.
Duva admitted he once manipulated a cut to help his fighter, Johnny Bumphus, defeat Marlon Starling during a 1986 bout where open-scoring was used.
"For the first three or four rounds, Johnny was really out-boxing him," Duva said. "But then I saw Marlon hit him on the chin a couple of times and I saw Johnny do a little dance. I said, 'Oh no. I'm in trouble here.' Then I heard the scoring. As luck would have it, Johnny gets a little cut just above the right eye. So I went over and I opened the cut up a little more with my nail. The doctor comes over and I scream how he can't fight with the cut. The doctor says, 'Then I'll have to stop the fight.' I said, 'Then stop the fight.' Marlon is jumping up and down thinking he had won. But when went it went to the scorecards, Johnny won a split decision."
Taylor's last three fights have ended in controversial decisions. He won two close decisions over Bernard Hopkins in back-to-back fights and had a draw with Winky Wright last summer.
Ouma's manager, Tom Moran, yesterday questioned whether judges might favor a hometown fighter like Taylor if their scoring is going to be known by the crowd throughout the fight. "Boxing doesn't need something if it doesn't have honesty and integrity," Moran said. Taylor's promoter Lou DiBella is lukewarm about the open scoring. "There are arguments for open scoring and there are arguments against it," he said. "Given the state of our sport, anything should be tried. Is there an advantage to a hometown fighter with open-scoring? You would think there might be. But at the same time there are some many judges whose scores bear no resemblance to what the crowd seems to be watching that maybe open scoring is not the worst thing on earth."


When you tell it, you should tell it like it is or not at all.