the what fights did you watch today\scorecard thread.

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And then, I saw this! lol!!

 

Here's a fight I never knew was out there and one I had never seen. A quick check on search of this thread made it clear that no one here has mentioned this bout and we need to take care of this now.

Roger Mayweather v Livingstone Bramble

Round 1: 10-9 Bramble
Round 2: 10-9 Mayweather
Round 3: 10-9 Mayweather
Round 4: 10-8 Mayweather (scores a knockdown)
Round 5: Bramble's corner stops the bout mid-round due to a severely swelling right eye

Total through 4 completed rounds: 39-36 Mayweather

To begin, this was a terrific study on infighting. These two took turns pot-shotting the other that the crowd loved. It was also a good stoppage by Bramble's corner as Mayweather was really zeroing in on that right eye. But because Janks Morton, Bramble's cornerman, stood on the ring apron on the outside, Bramble incurred a DQ rather than a stoppage. I always felt corners would do something like this so their man would not suffer a KO or TKO loss and I never liked it. Using the rules to soften the blow is BS. But I enjoyed the fight.

 

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This is an interesting fight I hadn’t seen. It has that car-crash quality that you can’t help but gawk at it: Andrew Golota vs Samson Po’uha.

Andrew Golota got two standing-eight counts (I didn’t even know New Jersey had the standing eight) in the third round when Samson bent over at the waist and didn’t defend himself. You could argue it should have been stopped since he was non-combative and non-defensive, but Eddie Cotton started counting both times.

In the fourth, Po’uha surges back to rock and hurt Golota with a series of clean, hard shots. Seems to have Golota within one or two solid shots of a KO.

And what does Andrew do? Goes full Golota, of course. The ref missed it, but in a clinch while hurt he bites Samson on the shoulder. Definitely a deliberate foul and it looks like he’s coming back for seconds a few more times but decides to push the plate away instead of taking another bite.

In the fourth, Golota knocks him down twice (both times Po’uha does the bend over thing but does go down, the first helped by some rabbit punches since the back of his head is all he’s presenting as a target).

It’s early-career proof that Golota’s panic button reflex is to foul whenever he’s distressed. And it is a nice back-and-forth affair that was oddly entertaining.

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I remember this fight. It's unfortunate that by the time Golota matured his physical gifts were in their twilight

 

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Two extremely nice men when I knew them. I had this fight 97-93 for Solis,

 

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I had it a tie. Great fight, through!