September 8th: which card will you choose?

So from the way Samurai has described it, we actually have TWO distinct conflicts:


In the afternoon:

The Wealth TV heavyweight tripleheader in the US (shown on Polish PPV)

vs.

Vitali Klitschko vs. Manuel Charr


At night:

HBO doubleheader

vs.

Showtime doubleheader


...with the ShoX stuff probably fitting in neatly between the afternoons cards and the nighttime cards and hopefully not overlapping with either.



For me it's..

Afternoon: Klitschko vs. Charr, no contest. **** that boring tripleheader. Adamek, Cunningham and Jennings will all win boring decisions. Jennings might get an accumulation TKO. That's about 30 or so rounds of guaranteed :dead

Nighttime: HBO. (with Sho Extreme as an appetizer) Showtime later, recorded on DVR.

 

It isn't a punch-counting contest. This isn't the amateurs.

Chambers landed flush right jabs (as a southpaw) and lead rights (while orthodox) switching back and forth, moving and denying Adamek many clean touches at all. If Adamek's gloves touched Chambers it was hardly ever a flush shot...and most of the punches Adamek threw didn't even make slight glancing contact.

It isn't like there were a lot of close rounds, or a lot of variety on the theme from one to the next. Most of the fight progressed the same way: Adamek throwing a lot more but missing, and Chambers throwing very little with the right hand but scoring it (as a jab or power lead, depending on the stance) pretty much whenever he did let it go.

Even if 11 rounds feature Chambers doing just enough to scrape by on clean quality connects while making Adamek miss loads and loads...that's still 11 rounds to Chambers. Just because a fight "seems" close because of one guy throwing a lot more and the other landing at a much higher %, doesn't mean the score can't be wide in favor of the latter.

 

HBO PPV? :huh

 

Yeah, but against Gavern? :!:

Goral, USS, and By-By all have gimmes.

Klitschko vs. Charr isn't exceptionally attractive, no, but it's by far the best heavyweight match-up of the afternoon given that Vitali is getting up there and 'father time is undefeated' (which, btw, the Diamond Boy is as well )

 

You scored a UD to Adamek? :nut How many people are you?

PolishBumbler. :yep

 

Bouts of interest, in order:

1) Ward vs. Dawson
2) tie - Matthysse vs. Olusegun & DeMarco vs. Molina
3) Alexander vs. Bailey
4) Klitschko vs. Charr
5) eh, whatever else...probably Sugar Shay and Kid Chocolate, followed by whoever is on the Moscow undercard, followed by the Wealth TV ****.