the what fights did you watch today\scorecard thread.

You win this time.

 

Not yet brother, but I will do soon enough.

I just watched Olivares give Rose a beating. A very impressive display of punching ability from Olivares, who's combinations seem to flow without effort. One of the more educated left hands I've seen from a Mexican, and that's saying an awful lot.

 

Only highlights from around the end of the bout, and you'll see Olivares being savage again. Glad you're diggin' him.

 

Dodie Boy Penalosa Vs Hi-Sup Shin

Korean fella that Chang beat in the rookie tournament (that Addie uploaded getting anihilated by Laciar) did go on to win a title, and Dodie Boy takes it off him here.

PENALOSA: 1; 4;
SHIN: 2; 3;

A lot of gesturing and flicking of punches early but no action. In the 2nd Dodie Boy steps it up, and the two southpaws then both try getting their right hooks off, and this wakes the Korean up a bit and he shaded the 2nd IMO.

The feeling out period is over and in the 3rd both men come out looking to assert their jabs. More variety from Penalosa and Shin only going for straight punches, but he lands the best shot of the round, a long straight left to the face. Replay shows he caught Dodie Boy flush with a right hook just before that. Just a bit sharper thus far and more patient is Shin. 4th round is much the same, but Penalosa probably shades it, they trade for a good exchange before both going back to trying to impose their game at range. Not particularly inspiring stuff all round but interesting enough.

In the 5th Penalosa gives in. No longer up for a boing match, he just puts hands on Shin, unleashing both with spite. Hurts the Korean, traps him on the ropes, bludgeons and drops him, and the follow up assault is mercifully halted straight away when blood suddenly starts dripping. **** knows where from but Shin has gone from being in a cagey boxing match he's well into to absolutely battered in violent fashion with nothing more happening than him being beaten up. Swiftly.

 

Fantastic second round and the best win that the Canizales Bros. own between 'em :deal :yep

 

Lora should have moved up after the Perez fight.

Hanging around afterward for so long after at a weight he was uncomfortable at and losing sharpness through inactivity was a disastrous combination going into that fight.

 

:happyI've been waiting for someone to upload that one. Probably my favourite Gomez performance.

 

Scratch that. The Yum fight was definitely his most impressive. One of the most impressive performances ever, actually.

 

hey el quick question how did you have the Sanchez fight scored before the stoppage? i had gomez doing ok up until...

 

Just watched Qawi savage Jerry Martin before the fight was mercifully halted in the 6th. Talk about a gimme first defense for Qawi.......a plodding, methodical standup boxer-puncher who was past his best in Martin. Ouch. Stylistically, the man stood zero chance of beating someone like Qawi, and he was never in the fight.

This, along with the Eddie Davis fight and to some extent the Saad rematch, show me that Qawi tended to let up on the gas a bit when he had his man in trouble. Both Davis and Martin were completely out on their feet and came back to survive a number of rounds longer than a true killer should have allowed them to.

 

A head to head beast, that's for sure. Exceptionally difficult guy to beat or look good against.

 

I did! He also tried to sucker Holyfield in the 15th round of their first fight in a similar fashion.

 

The middle rounds were actually quite close. Great beginning and ending for Sanchez, but the fight isn't the schooling throughout that it's often made to be.

 

Loses points for being dropped and stunned by T-Rex-armed-above-average-Asian.

 

True. Dropped in the first and stunned two more times before the end of the third. Yum wasn't a puncher, either, even though he was made to look like a go-for-broke bomber by Gomez. From the 4th round on that fight is a one-sided masterpiece.