the what fights did you watch today\scorecard thread.

You should watch Veeraphol and Samson Dutchboygym trade vicious knockouts.

 

What you guys wasting your time with these Asian jokers for?

 

Just finished Edwin Rosario - Anthony Jones. Rosario scored a sixth round, one-punch KO, which one might have thought would fit the script well enough. In reality though, it didn't really tell the story. Rosario looked awful here; slow, off-balance, not much snap on his shots, easy to hit........good thing for him Jones was no puncher, he'd have been out of there by the fourth.

Jones fought for Kronk, and Emannuel Steward told Jones, who had a reputation as a boxer, to back Rosario up and take the play away from him. It made for an entertaining little scrap, I'll say that. I have always thought that the way to beat Rosario was to back him up (as frankly that's how all his losses occurred, kind of an easy one there), but there's also something to be said about playing to one's strengths. In this regard, I think Steward failed Jones. Jones succeeded in taking the play to Rosario after the second, backing him up and hurting him a bit with some sharp if not hard punches as the Kronk fighter slipped back and forth between conventional and southpaw stances. Rosario looked sloppy and hittable, and often fell off balance as he pawed with his left and overextended with his rights. Many of his shots were landing, and Jones' left eye was swelling, but that horrible concussive power Rosario had was seemingly missing.

Until the sixth.

Jones came out aggressively again at the start of that round and eagerly traded with the Puerto Rican as he had been, but Rosario had begun to find the range a bit more with the right. BOOM! A single right hand drops Jones on his face, and he barely beats the count. The referee hesitates before letting him proceed, but as soon as Rosario lands one or two decent shots on the totally incapacitated Jones, he rushes in to wave it off as Jones collapses forward in his arms.

Ultimately, Jones was nothing special, and a prime Rosario should have blown him out. This was for the vacant lightweight title, vacated by JCC when he moved up to fight Roger Mayweather again. It marked the third time Rosario won the lightweight title, and only the second time that had been done.

 

That the big dude Whitaker beat up on the inside?

 

Had to look it up, but yes, apparently. He lost to Whitaker, anyway. Seems he also jumped up to junior-middle eventually, and also stopped Julian Jackson in 1998 before finally retiring in 2001. I was unaware of this. :think

 

I've seen this fight - Saensak was robbed!:twisted:

Damn.
And I've always wondered who was this poor thai guy who was fed to Gomez so early in his career.

They both have perfect records and they both retired undefeated.

What happened? Were they any good?

Yeah, I've read about it.

Sounds like a great rivalry.

 

Yeah its an interesting fight.

 

Both those Veeraphol-Samson fights are on YouTube Lester, BoranBKK uploaded them :good

Poor had a contractual dispute or summat and couldn't carry on but he was lined up for a title shot at Lightweight....I wanna' say against Guts but I might be wrong....

Anyway, Samson was a proper protected WBU 'titlist'. Hatton's oppo' during his WBU run, for an easy comparison, was far superior. Samson was decent though. His handlers obviously like to milk him (allThai fighters are ruthlessly exploited financially) for all he was worth or lacked the confidence to step him up.

He'd give Omar Narvaez a good go though, in terms of uber-protected super fly trinket holders.

 

Pichit Sithbangprachan would've done Yuh a thorough disservice.

 

Hipster nonsense from the forum's king hipster.

 

I'm not getting into an argument with you.

 

Why not? You're best served too. I am hideously out of my element here considering I'd never even heard of Pichit until about 30 minutes ago. :yep

 

I don't think Pichit would necessarily beat Yuh. But check out his fight with Blanco. You'll really appreciate Pichit's destructive and rapid-fire combos. It's over quick.

 

I prefer to watch these fights in good quality, and decent resolution, unfortunately WBVA doesn't have anything currently uploaded of him. I'll have to see YT. :good

 

I uploaded it to YouTube.