>>> Orlando Salido Appreciation Thread...

El PAPA de Loma aka cherry poper adios champ!

 

Better resume than Gatti, that's for damn sure.

 

Good but not great fighter. Exciting though and its not easy to stay relevant for ao many years.

 

Mikey Garcia, Loma, Juanma and Marquez are all his sons. Historians of the future will ask, "Was he a man or a god?"

 

Lopez II, what a fight. JuanMa looked like a traumatized fighter in the early sessions, struggling with his flashbacks of their first encounter, trying to follow instruction and box a cute fight but being outcrafted by a wily, advancing Salido, looking for all the world like it was only a matter of minutes 'til the outcome of their first bout would be repeated. Then Salido got a little too comfortable, walked into that nasty signature right hook, and Lopez suddenly remembered who he was, grabbed his cojones and started to fight his way through the middle rounds. Then we got to see Salido under pressure, to which he responded not only with courage and fighting will, but versatility, counterpunching ably off the ropes for spells. The 9th was a round of titanic attritional warfare, but, notwithstanding the swelling around each eye of Salido, it was Lopez who'd suffered most for that session despite being on the front foot for its duration, and he was caught and irreperably damaged by a creative, shifting right hook-left uppercut-right uppercut combination early in the next session, leaving Siri's pregnant wife to enjoy multiple orgasms at ringside.

One of the great fights of this decade. And, incidentally, while Gus Johnson used to get a lot of negative response on boxing forums, he really added something to the atmosphere of the most memorable Showtime fights of his time and left us with some great quotables. Whenever I hear Mauro's God-awful barking on the play-by-play, I always miss Gus.

 

Nah.

 

As exciting a fighter as ever there was. His fights with Lopez, Martinez, Vargas, and Kokietgym deserve immense praise. Always undervalued, he was much better than his win loss record suggested. He managed to upset at least two p4p boxers who were expected to walk through him, and gave others way more than they were expecting. He fought more top guys than anyone, so kudos to him for having the balls in our eunuch era, and for always getting off the canvas with the heart of a warrior and trying to win at all costs. There was no fear or quit in Salido.

 

good tough fighter

 

I like Salido, but if being knocked down 4 times and resorting to head butting Garcia counts as “fathering” someone, you’re delusional.

 

Salido was taking over that fight and Mikey was starting to lose and looked for a way out. The nose excuse was pretty lame. If I am delusional, then I guess so is Abel Sanchez.

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I like Abel Sanchez, but I tend to doubt his sincerity. I’m sure he’d be singing a different tune if Mikey was his fighter.

As Arum once said “I lied yesterday, but today I’m telling the truth.”

 

Salido unretired

 

He went broke fast.

 

He said he works as a cab driver(uber) "by choice" he said people don't even know of his boxing a lot of the time.

Probably decided fucc this uber sh1t let me get a few more paydays lol

 

I watched that fight recently and Salido was totally turning that fight around. It was magic. That's what happens when you are a warrior who doesn't quit. He got knocked down four ****ing times and he didn't give up. He just said, "Okay, I'm gonna' get hit." Then he made peace with getting hit to land his own punches and he swarmed all over Mikey who didn't know what to do with that. Salido's probably not winning that one, but wow what a comeback!

The only other comeback like that which comes to mind is Juan Manuel Marquez coming back against Pacquiao in their first fight after being dropped three times with a broken nose.