the what fights did you watch today\scorecard thread.

Cervantes vs Ortiz.

Good little fight this. At first ceravantes seemed to be wild and aggressive but he started covering up and countering which led to him landing some beautiful shots on ortiz.

Very good handspeed and obvious power in each hand. His patience was very good in the second as well, not sure if he was playing possum against the ropes when ortiz began to rush him but either way he landed a sweet left hook that brought an end to proceedings.

You'd need a good chin and great workrate to beat him on the inside in my opinion. I think he'd knock out hatton.

Would have been interesting seeing him against pryor when he was a bit younger, I'd still pick Pryor to overwhelm him but it might be a bit more of a competitive matchup.

Anyways, crushing display by cervantes.

 

Have you seen Cervantes-Dejesus, Luf?

Very impressive performance by Cervantes.

The way he imposed his size on Dejesus was monzonesque stuff.

Dejesus barely survived 15th round.

Would have been nice if Duran met Cervantes in the 70's.

 

Great first couple of rounds as well

 

Moreso with these modern types.

 

Yeah and his win over locche as well. He was quite a multi dimensional fighter and if it weren't for a defensive freak like benitez or an offensive freak like pryor he could have ruled the division for longer than he actually did. Very good fighter. One of the greatest at the weight.

 

Shame he and Muangsurin didn't get it on it late '77. There was talk of it from both sides.

 

Yeah that'd have been a bit special certainly!

Never knew before tonight he'd beaten a green mamby also.

 

Who? Muangsurin? That was a massive robbery by all accounts. However, after the Thai lost the title to Sang-Hyun Kim (who you've probably seen looking woeful against Pryor years later) Mamby went to Korea and beat Kim (brutal kayo, I
Uploaded it to YouTube). So it all worked out good ;-)

 

No cervantes unless there's a different mamby and i've just been licking windows for the last 15 minutes atsch

 

Nah he probably did as well. Duran did as well!

Mutual opponent for Cervantes and Muansurin I know of; Jap' contender Lion Furuyama. I have him going the full 15 with Kid Pambele for the type. What I don't have is about a year later when Muangsurin destroyed him in only his 2nd bout. And sadly I only have their 15 round rematch in silent, which makes me sad every day.

 

I don't think I have the first but i'd have to check.

 

Don't think it exists mate.

If ANYONE has Muangsurin-Furiyama II with audio, please let me know and I'll be eternally grateful. Just so I know it's out there!

 

Duran wouldve fought anybody put in front of him IMHO and while it's true Eleta looked at it for what it was (high risk, low reward), it remained within the realm of possibility up until Cervantes' defeat by Benitez, at which point they turned their attention to the unification bout with DeJesus.

 

Huck-Povetkin '12

Round 1: Povetkin 10-9

Round 2: Povetkin 10-9

Round 3: Povetkin 10-9

Round 4: Huck 10-9 (Povetkin badly rocked!)

Round 5: Huck 10-9

Round 6: Povetkin 10-9

Round 7: Huck 10-8 (Povetkin rocked 4 times, once badly. Huck got moved & had his head snapped back by some big punches, but was never stunned.)

Round 8: Povetkin 10-9

Round 9: Huck 10-9 (Povetkin rocked twice.)

Round 10: Povetkin 10-9 ?

Round 11: Huck 10-9 (Povetkin rocked twice, once badly. Huck rocked!)

Round 12: Huck 10-8 (An exhausted Povetkin is wobbled & buckled a few more times, & barely able to stand at the final bell. Would he have survived another minute?)


Total: Huck 115-112

 

I would never have round 12 be a 10-8 round... I notice you always award 10-8 rounds unfairly