Soto-Karass vs. Buendia, right now

Shitty ones though. A good many of those weren't legitimate punches, like the 1288 that Jesus Soto Karass threw earlier.

 

Calm down. It was a great fight. Nobody cares to hear you making excuses for one fighter or trying to downplay the other. Pretty much everybody agrees it was a great fight and is able to give respect to both fighters. You can't, that's your problem. Nobody really wants to hear about it.

 

you don't have to measure every fighter against the rest of their division after every single fight, especially in the case of still-developing prospects.

i just don't want this to deteriorate into yet another thread about the dynamics of a weight class and who at the elite level could beat which prospect or each other more decisively, blah blah blah. there's plenty of that crap.

why can't we just live in the present and say tonight, there was a good fight, those of us who saw it appreciated it, and that's that? does there have to be speculative analysis to go along with that?

 

Definitely.

This is why I'm dying to see Soto-Karass vs. Ojeda. I want to see how the guy finishes. I don't want to judge him just off the Buendia fight because I suspect there was some truth to what Wally Matthews said, in that Jesus has demonstrated highly capable boxing skills but seems to prefer to slug it out with guys like JuanMa Buendia. I think this was especially apparent as Soto-Karass waited a couple of rounds to feel the range of his opponent's power before adopting a more reckless and wide-open style for the middle rounds. There were flashes of versatility, but until I see a bit more I'll reserve judgment on just how effectively versatile he is.

 

link up some JSK vids?

 

:|

 

I happened to reminisce about this classic war in the course of posting this career-retrospective thread a few days ago:
https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/jesús-el-renuente-soto-karass.618459/

oops: wherein I sold the man a bit short, thinking he was a lamb being led to slaughter against Neeco Macias; instead he triumphed in a 10-round windfall of light punches both ways that saw Comp-U-Box records utterly smashed)

...which all led me to investigate the availability of footage of Soto Karass vs. Buendia, after reading through my and others' excitement in this de facto RBR thread watching it live. It turns out the nominal "main event" of that card, Hasim Rahman vs. Zuri Lawrence, was uploaded in entirety on YouTube, so I shot the account holder a message yesterday asking if he possessed a videotape of the whole show - and if so, would he mind uploading JSK vs. Buendia for posterity. Alas, he just responded with a message that no, he doesn't have it.

Does anybody know if there's video to be found somewhere? Anybody have it on a VHS or DVD and want to do everyone a solid by putting it up?