I'm on the next level now as a boxing fan, i'm up a level and what I try to do now is match fights to whatever whisky it is i'm drinking that night you understand? So when I cracked open The Spice Tree blend from the most excellent compass box and detected brutish notes of blood oranges, cloves, ginger and raisins clashing with a delicate and smooth chocolate, underwhelming but impressive in their subtleties nonetheless I banged on the Mayorga-Forrest fights. What are your impressions of these fights gentlemen? The first fight, I love it, a classic mugging, but almost all psychological, Forrest refuses to move when he should move for matters of machismo, determined to earn respect, prove himself, all that ****. So he gets hit, stopped, a real shock at the time. The second fight, Forrest is determined to box, but he just can't get it to work, at all. The reason is he's a little intimidated I think and he's just standing behind that single jab, he isn't showing a second one (in the second round it's literally all just ****ing single jabs) nor a meaningful right hand, and nor is he making Mayorga pay. Mayorga, he in hog heaven with his clovey, ginger aggression making the smooth chocolate all scared and that, he just wings in these punches, as big as he likes, because in the end, why not? He's not being punished. He's just a bull. Mayorga is having so much fun though that he doesn't notice he's getting ****ing knackered. Forrest, he's not having a great time either, but he's got better technique which is giving him a better physical memory. Too drunk to score the fight but my impression was that Mayorga just sneaked it despite a technical rally from the less knackered man. Poor man's Duran-Leonard, really enjoyed it. And the whisky's not bad either. This content is protected Thoughts on these fights? Anyone got a scorecard for the second one? Observations in general about the mugging or the rematch? What happened here?
I'll start by saying Mayorga is an excellent fighter in these fights, fast overhands and hooks, athletic, his radar was pretty good too and very well conditioned BUT he had a very short prime, so people tend to see him as not that good, which I'd disagree with. Just look at his face around this time and compare it to how old he looked just a few years later, the drinking and smoker and his style which depended on athletic ability saw him deteriate fast Now Forrest I think is a greater boxer than Mayorga, he'd beat Mayweather and Ross, outboxing them on the outside and outpunching them too. But his defence is lacking, he isn't too great on the inside and he could have circled Mayorga to take advantage of his speed advantages but instead he backed up in straight lines. His stamina down the stretch was shown up in the rematch but I think few would be able to take his punches and push him back like Mayorga did, Mayorga was a man on a mission for these 2 fights. Agree with the Duran-Leonard comparisons, Mayorga had similar trash talking and dragged Forrest into a tactically unadvisable brawl in the first fight. But he won the rematch too. It should be remembered Forrest had some bad injuries around this time. But all excuses aside Mayorga pulled off 2 great wins The whole WW scene was so volatile in this period, DLH being robbed against Tito, DLH losing to Mosley, Forrest dominating Mosley twice, Mayorga beating Forrest twice, Mayorga losing to Spinks, Spinks losing to Judah, Judah losing to Baldomir, all in just what 6 years? McGrain you may want to take a look at whiskybroker.co.uk Single Cask, NCF, 20+yo Malts for around £40 a bottle. The lad who runs it is the son of the owner of the Bladnoch distillery, which is supposedly a very much underrated drop, haven't got round to trying any Bladnoch yet though.
It's a shame Mayo let the party life get to him THAT bad, but again, he grew up dirt poor and got great cash as a boxer so lord only knows what that does to a fighter when you break out of poverty so fast. He got absolutely robbed in the Spinks fight IMO and it was downhill after that for $$$ which was pretty much all fueled by King.
[yt]Pkyy57iMaB0[/yt] Thanks for the tip and the read, and get yourself some Spice Tree. Yeah, this welterweight division was insane but I think that's because you had so many distinct styles so everyone had a reason to lose. Jabbing stylist, giant box-puncher, messy nutcase, power-stylist, monster puncher, spoiler...its depth is overlooked a tad imo. You could dump almost anyone outside of the two Sugars in this mess and they'd struggle badly at least once. I think that Forrest was a perfect opponent though. Still tinged with that machismo from his background but physically rather fragile, if we're honest, and mentally a little vulnerable too. For me, the closeness of the second fight just limits how I feel about Mayorga a little bit, though I do dearly love to watch him. He should have taken care of business in that second Forrest fight IMO.
It's like a more effective Mayo performance but with a shite point deduction and Spinks fouling himself
the next level again is mainlining black tar heroin and going back through Scott harrison's career fight by fight.
