Salido & Ghost Guerrero's Grueling War Of Attrition-Orlando Robbed Of One Of His Finest Wins.

Robert Guerrero vs. Orlando Salido 12 Rounds @ Featherweight, November 4, 2006.

Round 1 Guerrero 10-9 Both letting their hands go, but Guerrero's consistent uppercut to the body edged it.
Round 2 Salido 10-9 Guerrero willing to go to war, trading more, Salido's looping hooks up top take it.
Round 3 Salido 10-9 They go to war in a phone booth, Guerrero's body work nullified by Siri's brutal work up top.
Round 4 Salido 10-9 RG worked behind his jab and straight lefts but ate too many flush overhand rights to win it.
Round 5 Salido 10-9 Slightly more tactical round from both, Salido beating him to the punch consistently.
Round 6 Salido 10-9 Good bounce back from RG, but he still got outworked and cracked with several overhands.
Round 7 Salido 10-9 Guerrero gives it his all lands several clean shots, but still getting beaten up by Salido
Round 8 Salido 10-9 Guerrero starts well, but gets rocked to his core with overhand right, completely falls apart.
Round 9 Salido 10-9 Guerrero looking sluggish smothering and plowing forward, getting beaten senseless.
Round 10 Salido 10-9 Brutal round for Guerrero, at times Salido made him look like a human bobble head doll.
Round 11 Guerrero 10-9 Salido tired himself out beating Robert up, Guerrero's crisper shots takes the 11th.
Round 12 Salido 10-9 Back and forth slugfest, RG up top, Siri to the body, Siri more active, landed better shots.

118-110 Orlando Salido



On the undercard of the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Carlos Baldomir PPV, yet another young lion was thrown in with the Beast Of Cuidad Obregon a little too soon in his career and paid a bruising almost unpleasantly punishing price. Robert Guerrero was coming off of a pair of matches against Gamiliel Diaz, the first an early stumble in his career taking a very close SD loss, only to come back and avenge it by a 6th round stoppage on ShoBox in the rematch. So HBO thinking after JMM schooled Salido 2 years before, the last time he was on one of their televised cards, that Orlando was ripe for the picking, and they had a new up and coming star to push. Well Salido after losing the first round proceeded to drag Guerrero to the pit of hell and beat the living crap out of him for the next 11 rounds, with only maybe two being competitive. This match is a true testament to just how ****ing good The Ghost's chin really was. Most men would have crumbled after one or two of Salido's neck jarring head spinning overhands connected, Guerrero took them all night, only getting rocked about 2 or 3 times, which he quickly recovered from. It was an unforgiving vicious toe to toe war, with Salido doling out the majority of the punishment, and Guerrero soaking it up like an unquenchable sponge. At the end of the match, Salido won by UD, with the scores of 118-110, 117-111 & 115-113, the last score being truly flabbergasting. So with that, another soul taken by Warlando.


But... a few weeks later, Salido's blood test results turned up positive for Nandrolone, which is an anabolic steroid that the body can naturally produce when being put through heavy duty training. There was another blood test administered the day after the fight on Siri, and the results of that one came back negative. Which should have meant that Salido was given back the win and the title and with it one of his more impressive wins, but instead the No Contest ruling remained and the fight is treated as if it never existed. Which is a real shame, because if Salido was clean, which he probably was, its a damn fine performance, and he truly deserves credit for it and should have it added back into his W column.

I find this match to be incredibly painful. Because Guerrero and Salido are both warriors and two of my favorite fighters, and I hate to see either of them lose, but to see Guerrero lose and get the **** beaten out of him, and Salido get no credit for the win, its doubly shitty for me. Because that's kind of a lose-lose for fans of both.

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Here's the Brit version.

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And a crappier quality, but uninterrupted version of the HBO broadcast.

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@IntentionalButt You didn't do a thread on this one too, did you? Its annoyed me for years that these two Siri matches have gone virtually unmentioned and unnoticed, even though I hadn't checked up on the whole story of the doping positive for this one, this was a damn impressive performance regardless.