Matchroom: Brandon Lee Ríos vs. Armando Humberto Soto Ochoa RBR

118-112 (Twice)
and 119-111

118-110 is a NORMAL score (in modern boxing not this fight) in the no even rounds so 8-2-2 I felt 8-4 Soto was a normal score. two judges scoring draw rounds.
119-111 in modern boxing 119-109 is 11-1 so this was 9 round to 1 with 2 even.

 

Well...a 38 year old guy who's light years past his best and fighting way above weight against a naturally bigger guy still managed to hang in there reasonably well during the last two thirds, when he could very easily have wilted under Rios's pressure. That's noteworthy in and of itself.

 

I kind of like the fact that the judges actually scored a couple of even rounds. There were a couple that definitely qualified to be scored that way.

 

seeing how combined rios got 5 rounds I'd like less even rounds.. the even rounds were ones that rios probably won..

 

I remember that guy. I wish I could think of his name...

 

Why?

It wasn’t his fault.You are way too invested in your predictions.

 

rios was always bad. a punchbag.

 

At his best, he was nothing more than a weight bully, always ballooning up after struggling to make 135, to outweigh his opponent in an outrageous manner in the ring, and then get a gift decision.

 

Soto is still alive! Well, if being alive can be achieved by beating the already-dead. Good for him though. Rios was awesome to watch in the Acosta-Antillon wars but the moment after those two showings (against not-so-elite opposition) the dude has looked terrible almost every second of the way (the rally against Alvarado in their first match aside). Tack in years with those wars on top... short boxing lifespan.

 

I suspect it'll be another faded fellow 140 or lower fighter who also now campaigns at 147/154. I tend to think it can't be a top 10 guy at 154. Your generic 20-2-ish guy that only hard cores know of that has obvious flaws but is actually a junior middleweight would mean more for a prospect to beat on the come up or a contender to beat for rank... at least to us. TV ratings or whatever almost certainly says otherwise, but still...

 

Yesterday he's a 38 year old, +500 or greater undersized dog no one gave a chance to.

Fast forward 12 rounds and Rios is suddenly a complete bum and everyone is scrambling for excuses instead of admitting they got it wrong and that even at 38 Soto is quite the fighter.

I've always found the disrespect Soto gets to be comical, it's always been this way the 10+ years I've been following his matches live on here. He's never quite been at that upper most elite level and for some reason that gives people this incentive to make everything he accomplishes illegitimate.

I had $50 bucks on him and made out like a sly little fox myself. Whoever the bettors out there who lumped money on Rios until Soto was +500 were, thank you!

Also, if you look at Rios' prior bout in Mexico in 2008, he only escaped with a SD.