Santa Cruz and Mares - very disappointed

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  1. BlueBottle

    BlueBottle Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Was looking forward to this match, but as the round progress the match became too sloppy to capture any excitement. Nothing near exceptional between them.
     
    BlueBottle, Aug 29, 2015
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  2. Ricdog

    Ricdog Active Member Full Member

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    Nothing exceptional? Leo punched 1k and Mares a career high too. There are probably less than a dozen fighters at the top that can do that. Name them?!?! The stamina of Santa Cruz is insane.
     
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  3. Auracle21

    Auracle21 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    shut up newbie. quit boxing
     
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  4. BlueBottle

    BlueBottle Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I have seen many matches with lots of punches thrown but they had lots of clean punches landed. Not necessarily hurting punches, but definitely scoring punches. I feel both fighters tonight showed little offensive skill to land enough clean shots to my liking.
     
    BlueBottle, Aug 29, 2015
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  5. Cafe

    Cafe Sitzpinkler Full Member

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    The fight was decent, it had some of the ugliness like I thought it would but generally it was much better than I predicted.

    Not FOTY or anything like that for me though but a good fight.
     
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  6. icarus

    icarus Member Full Member

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    Great fight between top fighters, and I didn't have to pay. That's never bad.
     
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  7. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon. Full Member

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    Yeah, but who gives a **** how many punches a featherfist throws? There wasn't a lick of heat on one of them. If he had any power at all he'd have had Mares out of there four different times.
     
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  8. Xplosive

    Xplosive Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    If yall think that was a great fight I question your definition of a great fight.

    It was a decent fight. Too sloppy and without the drama to be considered great.

    Ceja vs Ruiz stole the show.
     
    Xplosive, Aug 29, 2015
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  9. Leoh

    Leoh Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    It was a pretty good fight. Sweet science hipsters can watch Floyd vs Berto and go aroused.
     
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  10. aaalbert

    aaalbert Boxing Addict Full Member

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    :lol::lol:
     
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  11. moparfan

    moparfan ESB's glass jawed fraud Full Member

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    :rofl
     
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  12. fastwanabe

    fastwanabe New Member Full Member

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    To me the two earlier fights were more entertaining.
     
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  13. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    Not legendary however very good fight. But neither are prime anymore, and visibly so...

    Safe to say Mares was responsible for the ugliness in initiating and aggressively holding.
     
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  14. chacal

    chacal F*** the new normal Full Member

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    Disappointed? it was pretty much like I expected it to be, but the first 2-3 rounds, that I didnt expect.

    Not an exceptional fight, not a bad fight. Just a bussy fight, entertaining overall.
     
    chacal, Aug 30, 2015
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  15. BlueBottle

    BlueBottle Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I think a lot of fans talked about this match for 3 years, so the expectation was very high. It was a decent bout but like others said lacked any drama.
     
    BlueBottle, Aug 30, 2015
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