the what fights did you watch today\scorecard thread.

Just finished Lloyd Honeyghan-Maurice Blocker. Because I had to watch it in bits of a couple rounds at a time spread over a few days, I forget exactly who won which rounds, though I kept a running tally of how many rounds were won by each. I had it 6-5-1 in rounds for Honeyghan. Had the ref not taken a point from Maurice in the final round I'd have had it a draw.

I just don't get what anyone sees in Honeyghan. Might well be just me, but I'm not seeing what others see. He fights here without much purpose other than to fling the flashier punches around, leaping at the taller Blocker with wild swings which occasionally land and the hometown crowd seems to like, but there's precious little discipline here. He doesn't jab his way in, he doesn't move his head much, he doesn't go to the body of his whip-thin opponent...…...just a bad performance really. Blocker was game and effective with hooks to the body and landed several nice shots to the head, but he just has zero power and no physical strength whatsoever. Otherwise Honeyghan would have been taken out I think.

114-113 Honeyghan

 

This was my card on Pedroza-Lockridge I

Round 1: 10-9 Lockridge
Round 2: 10-9 Lockridge
Round 3: 10-10 Even
Round 4: 10-10 Even
Round 5: 10-9 Lockridge
Round 6: 10-9 Pedroza
Round 7: 10-10 Even
Round 8: 10-9 Pedroza
Round 9: 10-9 Pedroza
Round 10: 10-9 Pedroza
Round 11: 10-9 Lockridge
Round 12: 10-9 Pedroza
Round 13: 10-9 Pedroza
Round 14: 10-9 Pedroza
Round 15: 10-9 Lockridge

145-143 Pedroza

Very close fight, but Pedroza was fortunate to have the WBA's house referee Stanley Christodolou working that fight. There are many referees who would have taken points from Pedroza for those repeated low-blows. Christodolou just repeated throughout 'keep them up', which was pointless. Still, great fight.

 

Just finished Foster vs. Tiger. Tiger was doing well...until he wasn't.

Foster held an 8 inch height advantage, yet I was still surprised to learn he was the favorite heading into it.

This was the only time Tiger was ever knocked out in his career.

 

Wilfredo Gomez vs Azumah Nelson

Nelson has such a good style, it's all based around power and strength, but with a good mix of subtlety thrown in there.

He jabs his way inside on the front foot, slips and rolls with a lot of shots, and absolutely whips in deadly over hand rights.

The delivery of that right hand is one of the best I've seen recently.

He wasn't an all out brawler but he certainly wasn't a back foot boxer, he was somewhere in between.

No idea how Gomez was up on the cards, he had a couple of good rounds but most of the fight was Nelson walking him down and beating him up imo.

Brutal onslaught to force the stoppage.

Someone who can counter as well as Nelson, who is also willing to fight on the front foot, will give anyone hell, which he did throughout his career.

 

Anyone here has scored the first Azumah Nelson vs Mario Martinez fight? I watched it today (didnt score it) and my impression was that Martinez won that fight. He landed the better punches and looked in control most of the fight against a very lethargic Nelson even scoring a knockdown late in the fight.

Again without scoring the fight my feeling was that Nelson got a gift decision in this one . Might have to rewatch it and score it this time to see if the feeling i had was correct.

 

I saw it the other week and thought Mario was unlucky. I deleted my card so I don't have a round by round either, but I had it 115-112 Martinez.

 

Why delete the card?

 

It was an accident, I deleted the note file I kept it in.

 

We disagree on a few rounds but the broad story of the fight seems the same as mine.

Although I didn't give Lockridge any of the rounds in the 2nd half. He had some better rounds, but imo not better than Pedroza.

 

Nelson vs Martinez and Villasana rematches.

Ive lumped these together because I always get confused by these two, so no point changing the habit of a lifetime.

Both really pushed Nelson first time round, but got schooled in the rematches.

I often wonder if Nelson was a master of many different styles, or just a very intelligent boxer who was good enough at enough styles to train a perfect fight in a rematch.

In the big fights he struggles with, he never seems to adapt on the fly. But give him a rematch and he's a completely different fighter.

Not just once he did this, he did it almost every single time.

Against Gomez we saw him being an expert boxer puncher, pressuring on the front foot and landing big power shots up close.

Against Martinez we see him being an expert back foot jabber and tbh he makes him look completely useless as he peppers him from range and then brutally stops him in the 12th.

Against Villasana we see him masterfully jabbing on the front foot.

He has a lot of facets to his game but he seems to need 2 fights to showcase his talents.

Don't get me wrong, I still think he's one of the best ever 126 pound fighters in history.

It just intrigues me how much he changes in a rematch, but doesn't do the same during the fight.

 

Joe Louis perfected this.

 

I use notepad on my phone.

I used to write them all down but then lost the hard copy.

Then I started using an app but it didn't save externally so when I got a new phone they all disappeared.

Now I use notepad and copy them into here so if I need to I can search a fight, or if I'm enough inclined I can just watch it again.

 

As I wrote the words Joe Louis was in my head haha

 

I use an app on my phone, but I also write my threads there before I put them on here. I had like 200 notes so I cleared it (everything had been posted on here, except that and a couple other Nelson cards, anyway) and lost them.

 

I do the same, write them in notes and then copy and paste them in here.