Provodnikov should be undefeated

I never watched it again but i remember thinking that guy Provodnikov needs to stop blocking punches with his face. Al least now, he has somewhat of a defense and dodges a few punches...here and there. :!:

 

The spotlight he got was from Tim Bradley going full ****** & Brawling with Provo.

Fights like Rios and Alvarado are the level he belongs...Fortunately for him there are few pure boxers like Alexander & Bradley at the weight with iron chins who are Provo's worst nightmare.

 

never saw the Herrara fight but timmie was absolutely begging to be ko'd but found his way out of it because other than decent power prov has nothing else..

i forget the scores but watching the fight as a whole (wrong way to score a fight) i remember thinking prov looked like the victor but then again he was so bad in a lot of rounds it is a fight that needs to be re-watched and scored correctly for me to have any real feeling.

but i will agree 100% in the 1st or 2nd round they called a punch a push even though tim couldnt get up from the obvious punch. prov should had been able to take care of business as soon as they started the round again.

i forget was that kd like the round 12 kd ? meaning end of the round and timme was really tko'd. is that was any other fighter real top fighter and not little known prov it would have been called a tko in the 12th. he was totally out of it.

and prov isnt some true p4p hitter. he aint got the power or LM or DG

 

Eh...

Provo landed the harder punches against Herrera, but while they busted him up a bit they didn't prevent Mauricio from out-working him for extended portions of the fight. Plus, Provo wasn't completely unmarked after 12 rounds, either. Close fight that gets called a robbery because it seems every close, either-way kind of fight gets called a robbery on ESB these days. I called it a draw, but there were enough swing rounds where I can't complain too strenuously about the verdict.

I think Provo was unfortunate not to have scored a kd in the first round; and you could certainly make a case that the second could have been called 10-8, too. But...there were only four rounds that were clearly Provos, with a couple of either way rounds thrown in. Judgement call, and a Provo victory isn't out of the question...but then again, neither was a Bradley victory (even taking three 10-8 rounds into consideration).

 

I thought he lost the Herrera fight, it was close but he lost

as for Bradley, Prov looked the better at the end of the fight but we do not judge by how fighters look at the end of the night, we judge round by round. If you judge it round by round I still gave it to Bradley even if you count the Knockdown that the ref missed.

 

Such an argument can be made.

But really, i just hope he gets the big fights going forward. He is good for boxing.

 

You can score Provodnikov vs. Herrera for Provodnikov but you can't really call it a robbery.

I had it 115-113 Provodnikov myself.

As for Bradley, he beat Provodnikov by a point. The knockdown in the 1st was a borderline call.

 

Did Provo himself not say that Herrera deserved the win?
Or did I just imagine that?

 

"I would like to say that after the fight we were a little bit disappointed because we felt like we won the fight. It was definitely a disappointment. Being unbeaten and coming into a fight that we felt we had won fighting on our promoter's show and everything, it just felt very disappointing to lose like that. Then after a day or two we got home. We watched the fight that was recorded. I kind of felt like I could have done a lot more than I did. It was a close fight. I still felt it was my fight. I felt I won, but I should have done a lot more being the unbeaten fighter and being the fighter that was the favorite in the fight. I could have done something else, maybe added a little bit in preparations, maybe added a little bit in the fight. It's boxing. You just never know what could have been done, but there was something that wasn't there, something that wasn't enough. Maybe it was the fact that Herrera was able to neutralize some things or maybe it's just that I thought that fight wasn't going to be as hard. I just want my fans to know I try to do everything I can to make them happy.

I'm definitely trying to fight for the rematch. I mean again, I don't want to discredit him. He did everything he could in the fight and I want to give the fighter credit, but I feel like this was definitely an unexpected decision even though, all the credit to him, but I still feel like I won the fight."

 

Misinterpreted rather than imagined then. Cheers.

 

I would kill for a Matthysse-Provodnikov fight.

 

Is that based on scoring the 1st 10-8 to Provodnikov despite Pat Russell's non-ruling, or do you have it a draw even without that?