the what fights did you watch today\scorecard thread.

Jackson's punch technique really needs to be studied, because he does such a fantastic job of getting his leverage. With very few exceptions, on his big punches his feet are balanced and planted, and he's either stepping forward into the shot or turning his body into it. In practically all his most impressive KOs you can see the way he times stepping into his punching, turning his body with it, or both.

And the Drayton fight is an excellent example of Julian at his best, with short crisp punches, digging beautifully into the body, even using a decent jab.

 

Yeah, was a rare fight where he actually fought with a high guard. Didn't see too much of that after the Mayweather fight as he became more dipsy-do oriented.

To me the Mayweather fight is one of his most underrated wins, considering the stylistic disadvantage in the fight and how early it came in his career.

 

Found a site that had Davey Moore - Ayub Kalule and saw that yesterday. Fun fight; I'd read about it in an old back issue of KO magazine back in the day so I know what happened, but it was still a reminder of just how much promise Davey Moore had. Damn, how many fighters who had something to offer went down the path of bad management? Sad.

He had a lot of rough edges, but he should have rough edges after only ten fights. He made up for it with combination punching, good movement, and a true fighting heart. He could have gone a long way.

 

Oh, if you'd needed that...I could've posted it

Saying that I've been slack on uploads at the mo'!

 

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Heh. Cool, sure whatever you wanna throw in there is great, thanks! I visit your channel a lot, so let us know!

 

I'm sorry man...just haven't been arsed as of late atsch

 

Hey, no worries! You don't owe us anything...........

 

Just finished Hamsho-Minter, which was a typical mugging affair on the part of Hamsho. I thought Minter did well to hang with Hamsho as well as he did, and scored it 5-4-1 for Hamsho. There is a definite art to the way Hamsho does his smothering tactics; he often didn't allow Minter opportunity to do anything but grapple and push and play his game.

The biggest thing that stood out to me was the truly disgusting and unprofessional homerism on the part of "Reg." Is this that Gutteridge guy I've read about? Anyway, he's awful. Took every opportunity to denegrade America, American press, American scoring, everything, while cooing on about Minter as if he were some besotted high school girl with a crush, even saying outright that he "certainly hopes that he (Minter) wins the fight." Just disgraceful. Downplaying anything Hamso did or omitted comment of it entirely, while heaping praise on Minter for things he did or imagined he would do. He never bothered to make note of Minter's holding of the back of Hamsho's head or the odd low blows of course. All that nastiness must be a distinctly American trait apparently. :roll:

 

Gutteridge and Carpenter were better when there wasn't a brit fighting a foreigner situation, though i've never been a fan of either myself.

They could have convinced you Mo Hope and Herol Graham were on the verge of beating Benitez and Kalambay, among many other outright biased calls.

on Jackson vs Drayton.I thought Drayton was looking shopworn by then, i'd still pick jackson over any version of him, but it could have been a classic had it taken place 3 or 4 years earlier.

 

It was shocking to listen to, really. Never heard that level of favoritism or passive-aggressive bitchiness before. I guess we get so used to the drama queen man-love of Jim Lampley after a time, and everything else seems odd.

 

Just watched Mullings v Castillejo.

I had it a dead even draw. Very scrappy fight and one that I think is the true definition of a home-town decision.

By that I mean even when Javier clearly lost an exchange he'd raise his hands and the crowd would go wild, he spent an awful lot of time showboating and the fans loved it. That crowd noise was probably the edge that convinced the judges on some of the closer rounds.

I really found it very difficult to split thejm a lot of the time, round 4 seemed clear for castillejo but the rest could probably have been swing rounds. Very tit fpr tat fight with Castillejo showboating on the outside and Mullings roughing him up on the inside. Both had incredibly slow hands this night as well.

I can see it going Castillejo's way but equally can see it going Mullings way.

Anyways I had it a draw, anyone else seen this? If not I wouldn't really recommend it

 

yes he does :twisted::twisted:

 

Don't listen to this man Flea! Upload! Upload as though your life, and the lives of all you love, depended on it!

 

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Just finished Chartchai Chionoi - Efren Torres, which I saw before some time ago, and scored it this time. Hard luck for Torres in this one. I had Chionoi coming out well, taking the first and scoring a solid knockdown in the second. Then Torres went on a tear, winning the next five rounds on my card, hurting Chionoi badly on a couple occasions along the way. I didn't score any of those rounds 10-8 for Torres, though at least one very well could have been.

This is where it got a little fuzzy for me, as I had to feed the kid and pay attention to that for a time, but I gave Chionoi the next three. I'm not totally confident in that, however. Then the next two to Torres before a huge cut is opened over El Alacran's left eye, and the boiut is halted in favor of Chionoi. Chionoi runs over to Torres' corner and hugs his legs in a sitting position, rather odd, but clearly acquiescing that he realizes he had just got very lucky indeed. At the time of the stoppage, I had Torres up 114-113.

Very, very good fight for those who haven't seen it.