the what fights did you watch today\scorecard thread.

Yeah I saw that too and the referee was Cuban.

Clark yelled at Stevenson after the decision got announced..."thank the referee!"

Regardless, the legitimate knockdown also hurt Clark's chances of winning.

A great fight barred by bad refereeing.

 

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Another great fight!

Im enjoying the channel!

 

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A few words:
This was one of the most one-sided beatings Ive ever seen, along with Willard-Dempsey, Ali-Williams, Holmes-Ali, Benitez-Hamsho, Moore-Duran and Qawi-Saad Muhammad.

Lopez showed the heart f a lion. Perhaps he was discouraged toward the end because he was not throwing home run punches but he still went out and wanted to go the distance (and perhaps he was also thinking he'd get another gift like in their first fight, being that they were in Sacramento).

After the stoppage, it turned into Minter-Hagler all over again. I dont understand why get drunk at a fight, when 1) you may not even remember you were there in the first place and 2) passions sometimes overtake people.

 

Troy Dorsey v Bernardo Pinango

Round 1: 10-9 Dorsey
Round 2: 10-8 Dorsey (scores a knockdown)
Round 3: 10-9 Dorsey
Round 4: 10-10 Even
Round 5: 10-9 Dorsey
Round 6: 10-9 Dorsey
Round 7: 10-9 Pinango
Round 8: Dorsey drops Pinango twice and the ref stops the contest

Total through 7 completed rounds: 69-64 Dorsey (official scores not known)

Still on a bit of a Troy Dorsey kick and got interested when i saw this fight out there. A 10-rounder against former bantam and super bantam champ Bernardo Pinango. Pinango was at an advantage at 118 and 122 with his height, but at feather, Dorsey would have none of it and just tore right in decking Pinango 3 times during the contest. Not much more to tell. Outstanding scalp for Dorsey.

 

One of the more nobody-had-that-on-their-bingo-card results of that time period was Troy’s next win, when he won a vacant featherweight crown by KO1 (over Alfred Rangel).

Troy was a perpetual punching machine and wore people down, but not the type anyone would expect to score a stunning first-round knockout in a title fight. In his two fights between Pinango and Rangel, he fought Jorge Paez and Tom Johnson both to a draw.

I was thinking about Troy today. Few men ever were as fit or as game. Have to say he got more miles out of his engine than many far more talented fighters.

 

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Excellent fight!

 

Edwin Rosario v Julio Cesar Chavez (lightweight title)

Round 1: 10-9 Chavez
Round 2: 10-9 Chavez
Round 3: 10-9 Rosario
Round 4: 10-10 Even
Round 5: 10-9 Chavez
Round 6: 10-9 Chavez
Round 7: 10-9 Chavez
Round 8: 10-9 Chavez
Round 9: 10-9 Chavez
Round 10: 10-9 Chavez
Round 11: Rosario's corner throws in the towel late in the round with him under fire

Total through 10 completed rounds: 99-92 Chavez (actual scores: 98-92, 99-91 and 100-92 all for Chavez)

Despite the one-sidedness on the scores, this has always been a go-to fight for me for action. What took Chavez to the next level was his uncanny ability to take a punch. Because, what is lost in his ferocious attack was the absolute bombs Rosario was landing on the counter. Man, when I would see the way he would rattle the head of Julio I was saying to myself that any other lightweight would have gone down from such a punch. Again, Chavez' attack was so whirlwind that these hand grenades that Rosario was landing was almost going unnoticed. But I enjoyed every second of this bout.

 

It’s easy to forget just what sort of force of nature JC Superstar was.

 

Edwin Rosario v Anthony 'Baby' Jones (vacant lightweight title)

Round 1: 10-9 Rosario
Round 2: 10-9 Jones
Round 3: 10-9 Jones
Round 4: 10-9 Jones
Round 5: 10-9 Jones
Round 6: Rosario drops and stops Jones

Total through 5 completed rounds: 49-46 Jones (actual scores: 49-47 and 2 scores of 48-47 all for Jones)

I remember when I first saw this bout live and thinking that Rosario looked like he was punching underwater. He was deteriorating slowly at this time and Jones took advantage of the situation with non-stop punching. But man, Rosario always had that punch in his back pocket for just such an occasion and slung that bad boy onto Jones' chin in the 6th and that was that.

 

Had my hopes up for this one but Rosario had that equalizer.

I absolutely loved Baby Jones. Anytime he fought on TV, it was appointment viewing for me.

 

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His excellency Perkins dominating.

Sorimachi looked gun shy until about round 8.

 

I wonder how i'd gone for him in the era of Henry Armstrong, Barney Ross, Jack Kid Berg and Tony Canzoneri in the lightweights.

 

Antonio, I checked this out a few years back. An amazing Perkins performance. This is how I saw it then:

I watched an absolute amazing 10 rounder today that I found by accident. And when I say amazing, don't get your hopes up that this was some barn-burner because it certainly was not. What this was was Picasso against a House painter. The 1974 Eddie Perkins v Ryu Sorimachi 10 rounder. Eddie's brush was his left which he used to jab and hook while throwing in the occasional right. No sense in running a card here. I only gave Sorimachi a share of the 9th for a 50-41 score (actual scores by the 3 Japanese judges were 49-45, 50-43 and 50-45 all for Perkins. The UPI had the same score as I). Eddie was absolutely amazing. Aside from his educated left, there was his feints, his head movement, his positioning. The highlight was hurting Sorimachi bad in the 8th. And this from a 37 year old engaging in his 94th bout. Ironically, Sorimachi, who was coming off of a world title challenge against Koichi Wajima for the junior middleweight title, would vie again for the same title 2 fights later against Oscar Albarado. And then a few years later against Carlos Palomino for the welterweight title. While poor Eddie chased Jose Napoles fruitlessly for years with no title shot. There is no justice in our sport.

 

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What a KO!

 

Jake LaMotta v 'Irish' Bob Murphy II (scoring on the Midwest's scoring of winner of a round gets 6-4 an even gets 5-5)

Round 1: 5-5 Even
Round 2: 6-4 Jake
Round 3: 6-4 Jake
Round 4: 6-4 Jake
Round 5: 6-4 Jake
Round 6: 6-4 Murphy
Round 7: 6-4 Jake
Round 8: 6-4 Murphy
Round 9: 6-4 Jake
Round 10: 6-4 Jake

Total: 55-45 LaMotta (actual scores: 55-45, 51-49 and another 51-49 all for LaMotta)

Totally loved this fight. I was never a huge fan of LaMotta's but he really impressed me in this one. What stood out for me in this one was LaMotta's accuracy. Man, he was pinpoint with his left hook to the liver and jaw and his lead rights on the southpaw Murphy's jaw. Conversely, Murphy had a great engine, was working hard, but his punching technique really needed work. His jab was pushed throughout and his lefts were kind of chopping rather than getting some real impact on them. Amazing because he was a noted puncher. Jake really did a number on Bob in the 9th and 10th. And regarding the 10th, if Jake wasn't so winded I think he could have finished Bob but he simply chose his spots rather than go in attack mode. But excellent fight.