the what fights did you watch today\scorecard thread.

@scartissue i tried watching Qawi vs Ocasio but it bored me to death, so i gave up after 6 rounds of action. For what it's worth i had it 3-3 after 6 rounds but i couldn't watch anymore sorry.

 

Alan Minter vs Vito Antuofermo 2

1 Minter
2 Minter
3 Minter
4 Minter
5 Minter
6 Minter
7 Minter
8 Minter
9 Antuofermo doesn't come out for round 9 stopped on cuts

80-72 Minter

Easy dominant win for Minter who sliced and diced Antuofermo up on the outside with jabs and straight left hands. I think the fight could of been stopped sooner, because Antuofermo had multiple cuts and his face was a crimson mask.

Overall not much else to say about the fight, it was a good performance from Minter and Antuofermo never got into the fight after he was cut early.

 

No worries, D, I've bailed on fights as well if they just weren't jiving with me.

 

Daniel Zaragoza (Champ) vs Paul Banke (Challenger) December 9, 1991

This WBC super bantamweight title fight was the third and final meeting between Banke and Zaragoza.

Round 1 - 10-9 Zaragoza
Round 2 - 10-9 Banke
Round 3 - 10-9 Zaragoza
Round 4 - 10-9 Zaragoza
Round 5 - 10-9 Zaragoza
Round 6 - 10-9 Zaragoza Close
Round 7 - 10-9 Zaragoza
Round 8 - 10-9 Zaragoza
Round 9 - 10-9 Banke
Round 10 - 10-9 Zaragoza
Round 11 - 10-9 Zaragoza
Round 12 - 10-9 Banke Very Close

My score 117-111, Actual Scores 117-113, 116-112 all for Zaragoza.

In this all-southpaw battle, Zaragoza used his longer reach and straighter punches to good advantage throughout the fight. He landed regularly and, for the most part, kept Banke at distance. That being said. the most dominant round of the fight was Banke's 9th round. He landed vicious body punches and on-the-button shots to the champ's head. The fight ended with an action packed 12th round with both men showing championship heart.

 

Fogger, I saw their first two fights, going to pencil in their 3rd bout for review. Thanks, man.

 

I was inspired to watch this fight thanks to a current forum thread on good final fights of trilogies. I am now going to find time to watch the first two.

On a side note, Tony Danza had really good hair back then. LOL

 

Shoji Oguma v Kim Sung Jun (flyweight title)

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

Total: 147-139 Oguma (actual scores: 148-145, 147-145 both for Oguma and a 149-146 for Kim)

That last score was by the customary judge from Kim's country that would vote for their man regrdless of how poorly he did. His score equated to 4 rounds to Kim, 1 for Oguma and 10 Even. Wow! Anyways, I once again find myself in a minority here as I had Oguma winning the bout comfortably and withstanding Kim's later attack. I should note that, although Oguma was a terrific body puncher, he seemed to rarely display that tactic. Loved his first fight with Chan-Hee. His assault to the body in that bout was something to behold, but here it was only sporadic.

 

Frank Tate vs Michael Olajide

1 Even
2 Tate
3 Tate
4 Tate
5 Tate
6 Even
7 Tate
8 Olajide
9 Tate
10 Olajide
11 Tate 10-7 only 1 knockdown but i felt dominant enough round from Tate for 10-7
12 Tate 10-8
13 Olajide
14 Tate
15 Tate

147-137 Tate

Firstly i just want to say i'm quite surprised Olajide was a 2-1 favourite going into this fight, i would of thought on paper this would be quite a hard one to call. Another thing is that apparently they encouraged judges to score 10-8 rounds even if there was no knockdown.

But anyway i enjoyed this fight overall, despite my wide scorecard i felt like Olajide did make the rounds somewhat competitive. It's just Tate would always have the last say in most of the exchanges, and overall just outwork and outbox Olajide in most of the rounds.

The big moments in the fight were rounds 11 and 12 when Tate dropped Olajide. The 11th round Tate caught Olajide with a sneaky hard right hand, and battered him for the remaining minute so much so i felt it warranted a 10-7 round, Tate once again floored Olajide with another right hand in the 12th, and it didn't look like Olajide would beat the count but he just about made it at the count of 9 and managed to survive the round. From that point on Tate knew he had the fight won and kind of cruised down the stretch, but was still mostly in control of the fight.

Overall as i said an enjoyable and underrated Middleweight title fight, which i've never heard anyone talk about before. A good solid performance from Tate and good heart shown from Olajide to get through rounds 11 and 12.

 

Joe Brown W10 Wallace "Bud" Smith

This was a non-title affair, which saw the champion Smith riding a two-fight losing streak(!) I belabor the point, but things were really different then. Brown was the #10 contender for Wallace's title so the idea a champion would take a fight like this at all is amazing. Non-title, I know, but.......

Anyway, this was not that competitive. Brown, clearly a disciple of Ray Robinson (right down to the processed hair) boxed, danced, and countered his way to a clear decision. Wallace just didn't seem to have any answers, trudging after Brown rather aimlessly, no jab, no real fight plan to speak of.

Brown began to open up more as the fight progressed, and the deft movement never ceased. As it turns out, this third straight loss for Smith would not end his bad streak; he would go on to lose eight more in a row before finally retiring. Clearly he was finished as a fighter upon winning the title from Jimmy Carter. He defended once against Carter and then began the final slide into obscurity. At the age of 61 in 1973, he tried to come to the aid of a woman being beaten up by some guy in Cincinnati. After a brief scuffle the man drew a gun, shooting Smith in the head.

1. Even
2. Brown
3. Brown
4. Brown
5. Smith
6. Brown
7. Brown
8. Brown
9. Brown
10. Brown

99-92 Brown

 

Michael Spinks vs Yaqui Lopez

1 Lopez
2 Lopez
3 Lopez
4 Spinks
5 Spinks
6 Spinks
7 Spinks wins by TKO

57-57 Even

Fantastic fight this one and a good test for an upcoming Michael Spinks.

Spinks started off with a solid stiff jab, and i think he expected to be able to control the fight with his jab. Well Lopez had other plans and he was able to effectively pressure Spinks. Backing him up towards the ropes and land some terrific combinations and body punches. The pattern continued that way for 2 rounds or so, until Spinks realized just using the jab wasn't going to cut it he was going to have to fight.

The 3rd round is when the fight really broke out as both men started to slug it out, i feel like despite Lopez being competitive in rounds 4 and 5, you could see the momentum was starting to shift in Spinks's favour. And the 6th round is when the fight really started to turn around as Spinks hurt Lopez for the first time in the fight. Going into the 7th round the writing was on the wall Spinks didn't let up from the last round, and finally finished Lopez off after scoring 2 knockdowns in the 7th round.

Overall an underrated little slugfest this one, this was probably the first fight where Spinks was really tested. And he passed it with flying colours as he was ready to take the next step up the ladder, and sadly once again the brave Yaqui Lopez came up short again in a great fight.

 

Oscar De La Hoya v Ike Quartey

Tight contest which could conceivably have gone either way (as was reflected by the split decision). In the end, I had Oscar by a couple of points but not with great confidence. The final round was a big one that probably helped tip things his way.

De La Hoya had problems with Quartey’s jab but did enough to wrestle the initiative back towards the end of the fight after a bad stretch of rounds. For that, I think he deserves credit. There will always be someone who says Quartey was robbed and Oscar got lucky, but I think the decision going his way in this one was entirely justifiable, even if you didn’t personally agree with it.

1 10-9
2 10-10 (not much in it - threatened to break into a fight at the end)
3 9-10 (good combo at the end shades it for Ike)
4 10-9 (another close, difficult to score round)
5 9-10 (Ike just about edged it)
6 9-10 (DLH drops Quartey; Ike returns the favour. Ike takes control for rest of round)
7 9-10 (Oscar not doing enough offensively)
8 9-10 (closer but Oscar struggling to find a way past Quartey’s jab)
9 10-9 (Oscar shades his first round for a while. Important that he did)
10 10-9 (clear round for Oscar)
11 10-9 (another round for DLH)
12 10-8 (DLH does his best work of the fight in the first minute, dropping Quartey and hurting him in the follow up before punching himself out. Quartey fights back but not enough to make it a 10-9 round)

De La Hoya 115-113 Quartey

 

Anthony Joshua v Dillian Whyte

Very good fight, particularly over the first three rounds, in which Joshua showed he could come through adversity and tough it out against a focussed opponent.

Lots of clean action in the early going before Joshua started to take control and finished Whyte off pretty spectacularly.

1 10-9
2 9-10 (close)
3 10-9 (close)
4 10-9
5 10-9
6 9-10
(58-56)
7 Joshua KO Whyte

 

Lopez never showed up with any intent but to win and give his all and he did it here. I scored this last year or maybe the year before and had it I think the same.

This was a heck of a step up for Spinks in just his 14th fight. He had beaten Murray Sutherland, who would become a title challenger, and Ramon Ranquillo, a nail-tough club fighter who was coming off a KO of Mike Rossman, but Yaqui was good enough to be a world champ in a lot of eras except the one he happened to come up in, which is one of the most talented collections of fighters at one time in one division ever IMO.

 

Carlos Ortiz KO10 Battling Torres

Ortiz looks superb here. He's most comfortable countering and here is the perfect foil; Torres is game and well-schooled, but he's a bit slower and has a leaky defense. Ortiz is of course more known for his lightweight career; this was contended for his junior-welterweight crown.

As the rounds mount Ortiz begins opening up in earnest, unleashing some really venomous combinations now that he realizes Torres is beginning to slow. Torres makes a fight of it, taking the fifth on my card, but after that it's all Ortiz. He gradually chops the Mexican down, and floors him in the 10th with a hard combination. Torres cannot quite beat the count.

1. Torres
2. Ortiz
3. Ortiz
4. Ortiz
5. Torres
6. Ortiz
7. Ortiz
8. Ortiz
9. Ortiz
10. Ortiz drops Torres and the challenger is counted out.

88-83 at the time of the stoppage.

 

D, have you ever seen Olajide's fight with Iran Barkley? You'd love it! Put away the pen. Just a fun fight.