the what fights did you watch today\scorecard thread.

1 Even
2 Hearns
3 Hearns 10-8 knockdown
4 Leonard
5 Leonard
6 Hearns
7 Hearns
8 Hearns
9 Leonard
10 Leonard
11 Hearns 10-8 knockdown
12 Leonard

115-112 Hearns

My only issue with your scorecard is rounds 2 and 8.

Round 2 Hearns was active with the jab and he landed the best punches of the round 2 clean right hands. The 1 right hand just before the bell slightly wobbled Leonard when he switched southpaw.

For me it's a little bit of a reach to give Leonard that round TBH.

As for Round 8.

Leonard did a decent job of jabbing with Hearns in the 1st half of the round. But then Hearns got his attention with a clean right hand with 1 minute left to go, and landed some solid power punches in the final minute to win the round quite clearly in my view.

You'd have to give Leonard every somewhat debatable round to have it as a draw and that's a bit of reach honestly.

No Hearns didn't win it by a landslide but it was still a clear win in a competitive fight by a few points IMO.

Leonard even admitted Hearns won this fight which says it all.

 

Bernard Hopkins v Felix Trinidad (unification middleweight title)

Round 1: 10-9 Hopkins
Round 2: 10-10 Even
Round 3: 10-9 Hopkins
Round 4: 10-10 Even
Round 5: 10-9 Hopkins
Round 6: 10-9 Trinidad
Round 7: 10-9 Hopkins
Round 8: 10-9 Hopkins
Round 9: 10-9 Hopkins
Round 10: 10-9 Hopkins
Round 11: 10-9 Hopkins
Round 12: Hopkins drops and stops Trinidad

Total through 11 completed rounds: 109-102 Hopkins (actual scores: 109-100, 107-102, 107-102 all for Hopkins)

I was so keyed up for this fight at the time but I believe I had to work, which would have been the only reason I missed it. When I heard how one-sided it was I never bothered with it. Changing that today. I was never big on Hopkins and I recall the bad blood that spilled over here from the pre-fight weigh-in (I believe it was) where Trinidad was holding a small Puerto Rican flag and Hopkins grabbed it and threw it to the ground (and did I hear he had to run out of the weigh-in because of that action???). But giving dues where they belong, Hopkins never looked better. But I will say what I always say about Felix, whom I was a big fan of. He was a great welterweight, he was a great jr. middleweight, but he never had the frame for middleweight. Moreover, i always felt the DeLaHoya fight did expose the fact that he never had a Plan B. If something wasn't working out he just kept trudging through with the same plan with no variation. And became clearer during this fight. The 10th round was about the best round here for swapping punches if anyone needs to check out the fight.

 

Not a great fight, Scar, but a great performance. I was a big Trinidad fan so was gutted when he lost. Interesting side note - the fight was postponed from its original fight date of 15th September because of 9/11. It took place 2 weeks later, not that I think it had any impact on how the fight unfolded.

 

Jel, tell me about that pre-fight altercation. Was i correct that Hopkins did something to desecrate the PR flag and had to high-tail it out of there?

 

Yes he grabbed it out of trinidads hand and tossed it on the ground

 

thanks, Kidd, I thought it was something like that

 

I didn’t remember that but I just found some video of it on YouTube- just put Hopkins and Puerto Rico riot in and it’ll come up.

He grabbed the flag, threw it on the floor in front of a large crowd of Puerto Ricans and then, yep, he legged it out across the seating!

 

Your story about missing the fight for work reminded me of something.

Chavez-Taylor I was on my birthday. And I had to work.

Had a group of fight friends, one of whom was an apprentice chef. So we would pool some money for the fights and give it to John and he would go shop and cook us up something. (I think he liked doing that more than the fights, haha.)

Well they gathered in my apartment and videotaped the fight. I got home probably 30 minutes after it ended. They are all just grinning, saying ‘John’s got a plate for you to heat up, but watch the fight first.’

So we watched and, well, you know how it ended.

After, they brought out my food and a birthday cake (from the grocery, he was a cook but not a baker, haha) and ice cream,we all dug in and had a great night. I think we rewinded and watched it again over cake.

Happy times.

 

That is an awesome memory. Fight night always brings that out.

 

Just checked it out. Bad move on Hopkins part but I'm sure it inspired the gate.