Rodolfo Gómez, Jr. vs. Ricardo Mayorga RBR

Holy ****, bad stoppage. Bad end to Mayorga's career, if that.

It was a legitimate knockdown, but he wasn't hurt and certainly not enough to need a life preserver thrown overboard from the ref.

 

Gómez won some regional trinket, and is hoisting it overhead in one still-taped (ungloved) hand while parading around the ring.

 

On the other hand, kind of a fitting microcosm thereof.

Mayorga showed big time power, and was at times super crude and capable of flashing some underrated boxing skill - and then makes a rookie blunder, gets dropped, and is "knocked out" in bizarre, almost comical fashion.

 

Mayorga has a t-shirt on in the middle of the ring, mopping his face with a towel, and is giving a slurred interview. Retirement? I speak a decent amount of Spanish but can't understand the mile-a-minute conversational dialects of native speakers. (as opposed to when the commentators speak and make a point to enunciate themselves and draw syllables out, much easier to comprehend)

 

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Apparently might be a rematch.

 

Mayorga was 7lb overweight, by the way. Half a pound more and he would've been over the light heavyweight limit and technically a cruiser.

It was, however, scheduled at super middle...which Gómez made on the nose.

 

I'm shocked he never went the way of Khurtsidze, frankly.

 

I'd favor him to beat Cobrita in a rematch but honestly I would rather Mayorga just retire once and for all.