the what fights did you watch today\scorecard thread.

Have you watched Burruni against Kingpetch, McGrain?.I upped that a while back.

he looks real good there(and i'm not one who thinks Pone looked past it), but probably just hit the wall soon after.Maybe lost a bit of dedication\will after finally winning the title late in his career. he started losing the non-title bouts and wasn't too interested in giving rematches to those who beat him like Chionoi Accavallo and the underrated takayama.

 

Ezzard Charles v Harold Johnson

1: 9-10
2: 9-10
3: 10-9
4: 9-10
5: 9-10
6: 9-10
7: 10-9
8: 9-10
9: 10-9
10: 10-9 (10-8 if ruled a kd)

94-96 (94-95 if kd ruled)

The vast majority of this fight is a jab clinic.

Johnson could have won this fight just throwing the jab and right uppercut whenever charles closed the distance. When Johnson tried mixing it up, Charles would land big counter rights which is where he took some rounds on my card.

Definitely not a robbery imo.

 

With all this Charles defending lately people were making out every loss is bull****. Watching this fight, which everyone can do thanks to you :good, it is apparent that Charles was quite simply, outjabbed.

 

I've seen a few posters say they thought Charles was robbed on here over the years.I can see how you might be able to think he shaded it depending on your scoring preferences, but the close Johnson win was fine imo.

 

Chavez vs Rosario

Absolutely brilliant performance by Chavez. His defence is good but he takes quite a few shots, very few land flush though. His combination punching, stamina, workrate, chin, accuracy and killer instinct are all displayed brilliantly here against the man I felt was the best Lw int he world at the time of the fight.

I think he gets a bit of stick due to his massive early career padding, but that's just a throwback to times gone by.

Deifnitely a ring legend and a true great, this is, imo, his best showing.

 

considering Rosario's showings against Ramirez , Randall and Camacho it possibly is .

 

Cokes vs Ludick

Interesting fight. At first Cokes strategy wasn't impressing me at all, he was being the opposite of a ring general and just giving up space whenever Ludick pressed forward. Seemed overly negative, but then I noticed he was throwing his right with full forc from the outset. He wasn't actually giving up territory, he was subtley walking Ludick onto his power shots.

After the first couple of rounds when he'd softened him up a bit he opened up more with a pretty good array of shots to show off his skills.

The end came in the fifth and it seemed inevitable at that point because his right was laser guided.

Found myslef strangely impressed by the end of it.

his career was quite strange, depsite picking up some decent victories, he was very very inconsistent early doors and after losing to pace he announced his retirement, I wonder if it was because he'd seen glimpses of what he was capable of but couldn't pull it all together?

He returned to the sport and must have had a new focus because one loss at LMW aside, he swept his WW opposition over the next few years culminating in a career which would end up being great.

I'd love to know more info about why he did quite and why he was more focused upon his rteurn because I'm just supposing for the main part there.

 

Just watched the longer footage of Carnera vs Schaff......tragic fight, really sad to see the end of the bout......

But, that was a great performance by Primo...loved his jabs, controlling the fight all the time....great uppercuts when on the clinch....good footwork, parrying some punches really well....Carnera was even landing good combinations which wasn´t common for him....with accuracy !!
Carnera is underrated, we already said that in some threads, but that was a good display of his quality for sure, the best on film.....We know Schaff was past prime, but he beat Stanley Poreda (a decent fighter) by KO only one month before....tragic ending to a great performance by Carnera.....

 

Conn vs Bettina.

I think that despite the scores, this was a brilliant performance by Conn. His control of range was excellent and his jab was really top class. He obviously wasn't confident in his pwoer as even though he throws great combos at time, he doesn't put much into them.

His defence isn't brilliant but against an awkward southpaw aggressor it should be expected a few clean shots get through.

Very good performance on the outside.

Some might argue his performance against Louis is superior but I can't rank a ko loss over a unification victory.

Brilliant anyways. Looking over his career in detail, the guy actually picked up some truly great victories at MW also. Plus he'd beaten a number of HW contenders before his shot at Louis (although they could all have been fought in the CW division)

 

Barrera vs Juarez I.

Barrera controled the pace of the fight from the outside in the beggining with Juarez lunging in with the occasional left hook.Middle rounds domination by The Baby Faced Assassin.
Third quarter of the fight MAB looked tired and stood in punch range with Juarez landing the better shots and stunning the Mexican great on several occasions.
A unusual mouth piece problem with MAB.
Had it 15-114 for Juarez but the split either way or a draw would have been fair.
Rounds 6 and 10 were awesome.