The 'what fights did you watch today?' thread

Saul Alvarez vs Carlos Baldomir

Antonio Margorito vs Kermit Cintron 1

 

frank tate w ko 10 tony sibson(IBF middle tittle)

jeff fenech w tko 5 george navarro(WBC feather tittle)

daniel zaragoza w tko 5 valerio nati(WBC super-bantam tittle)

don curry w tko 10 gianfranco rosi(WBC light-middle tittle)

tomas molinares w ko 6 marlon starling(WBA welter tittle)

derek williams w pts 10 dave garside(heavy)rounds 1,5,9,10

michael nunn w ud 12 kevin watts (middle)rounds 5,8,9,11,12

michael watson w tko 5 don lee (middle)
gary mason w tko 6 alfonso ratcliff

marlon starling w ud 12 fujio ozaki(WBA welter tittle)rounds 1,2,3,9,10,11,12

george collins w pts 8 ian chantler (welter)rounds 4,5,6,8
james oyebola w tko 6 denroy bryan (heavy)rounds 2,3,5,6
gary stretch w ko 1 tommy mccallum (light-middle)

johnny melfah w ko 1 carl penn (middle)
mark kaylor w tko 3 charles henderson (light-heavy)

horace notice w tko 3 paul lister (BRITISH HEAVY TITTLE)
dave garside w pts 8 al malcolm II (heavy)rounds 1,2,4,7,8
david maw w pts 6 jeff decker (welter) rounds 3,5,6 (decker later fought under the name of jeff connors)

hughroy currie w pts 12 noel quarless (heavy) rounds 1,4,6,11,12

carl williams w tko 1 rodney frazier (heavy)

 

Oscar De La Hoya vs Patrick Charpentier

This was De La Hoya's fourth defence of his welterweight title, which he won by TKO in the third. Charpentier was one who had a strange career. He fought nobody of note for all his early fights(four of which he lost), before winning the European title. He made two defences(one of which against Gary Jacobs, so you Brits here might know more of him) and then, for whatever reason, gave up the title. It wasn't like he took an extended hiatus, he fought pretty regularly, feasting on a steady diet of people who offered no resistance to him, before getting handed a shot at Oscar out of nowhere, which turned out to be his final fight.

Anyway, to the fight. I think De La Hoya gets unfairly labelled by some as a one-handed fighter, particularly at this stage of his career. He had quite a good straight right(which was, incidentally, the very punch that finished this fight), the only problem was when he threw it he didn't put enough behind it, he often just used it to disguise his left hook that would soon follow. He offered a lot of subtle moves to avoid shots, parrying, slight movements of the head. It's hard to notice at times, it looks more like Charpentier was inaccurate rather than DLH doing anything, which wasn't the case. Maybe that's a skill in itself.

Oscar basically plastered him with the jab for three rounds, slotting in the occasional left to the body here and there. Then he throws a jab, a right, and follows it up with a picture-perfect left-hook that drops Charpentier. De La Hoya remained patient, reverted back to throwing the jab, looking for openings. When there wasn't any, he created one. Two body blows bring the Frenchman's hands down, and Oscar places a left uppercut right up the middle to plant him on the canvas. When he got up, the end was inevitable. De La Hoya sized him up for a few moments, and then pasted him with the aforementioned right hand. Goodnight Patrick.

I realise that I've made a bizarrely long post for such a short and pointless fight, I suppose I just picked up on a lot of things. If you did manage to survive reading it, cheers, I'll try to keep it shorter next time.

 

Toshiaki Nishioka Vs. Jhonny Gonzalez

Gonzalez has always struck me as one of the most unfortunate fighters in the sport. He really is an excellent fighter, who could have gotten more big wins if not for his chin letting him down. And this fight was no exception.

Gonzalez was brilliant in the first, he put his shots together perfectly as well as nullifying Nishioka's offence. Nishioka, to me anyways, appears to be very open to a good left hook to the body, which Gonzalez exploited, as well as Nishioka's susceptibilty to being caught with a straight right, which was the shot that dropped him in the first. The second was a bit more even, but still Gonzalez's round. Nishioka was mostly forced into just making wild lunges with his left hand, all the while getting prodded with a strong jab and caught with more right hands.

The same thing was happening again in the third before the ending. Jhonny once again looking comfortable in avoiding Nishioka's attacks, and varying his assaults between left hooks down below and right hands up top. But then Toshiaki landed with one of his lunges, and that was the end of Gonzalez's night.

From watching this fight, I get the impression that Nishioka is quite a beatable fighter when the opposing fighter has the right attibutes. He raises his right hand pretty high to prevent jabs from landing, which leaves the right hand side of his body wide open. If he fights somebody with a solid defence and chin, who can throw a good, accurate left downstairs and straight right to the head, I can see him being beaten. I know that there isn't many fighters that have all of that, in fact Gonzalez may be the closest to it, save for the chin. Nishioka is a very fine fighter, but a beatable one all the same.

 

Just watched Trent Wehrman vs Steve Wijangco. Really good scrap between two fighters you're unlikely to see or hear of again. But, watch it please (only four rounds) and tell me how one of the judges scored it how they did:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YviCZiYMKk[/ame]

 

Nikiosha is a class operator.

 

Oscar De La Hoya vs Shane Mosley 1

Excellent fight. It had some of the best high-octane, fast paced action you will ever see. It's rare that you get 2 highly skilled, ultra-fast, iron chinned, hard hitting fighters, with very few flaws, who are prepared to go to war. You have to commend Oscar and Shane for doing so. Both put it all on the line. I had it 115-113 Mosley. I actually thought Shane fought a very smart fight, particularly in the later rounds. His switching to southpaw to nullify Oscar's left hook was extremely effective, and a very intelligent move by Shane. Shane kept the fight at a faster pace (which suited him), he threw the combinations, and he outjabbed De La Hoya. All in all, a worthy win for Sugar Shane.

IMO it is a joy to watch younger Mosley. A very exciting and fast fighter, with power aswell. He was nearly the full article, especially at lightweight and Light-Welterweight. I'd reccomend any of his fights from the late 90's and early 2000's.

 

He is, no doubt about that. But he's very beatable. It's unfortunate for Gonzalez, if he had a good chin, he would have won that fight comfortably IMO. Nishioka's good, but not quite as good as people make him out I dont think. I've seen him in some P4P lists, which I think is ludicrous.

 

Fernando Guerrero lol vs Ishe Smith

The most ****ing difficult fight to find in history. After about an hour of searching, I found it 5 pages into google on some French website. Fair quality though.

Not much to say about this fight, I scored it 95-93 in favour of Ishe Smith. The knockdown he scored in round 8 was a key moment in the bout. He also came on very strong in the later rounds, which is ultimately what won him the fight IMO, as he found himself outworked early on. Both fighters were landing some brutal body shots from the very start of the fight, Smith's seemed to take their toll on Guerrero late on, which was clear to me because earlier in the fight Fernando had no problem outworking and outhustling Smith. He visibly slowed down late on, which cost him crucial rounds. It'd be a hard task scoring this fight for Guerrero IMO.

Fernando's got some work to do if he wants to make it to the top.

 

Erik Morales vs Willie Limond

I'll reiterate the point I made in my previous post about Barrera-Arias:if a 4th fight were to be(wrongly) made between Barrera and Morales, Barrera would win, and probably stop him. Morales has been past it since the Raheem fights, never mind the subsequent fights with Pacquiao.

And that is made abundantly clear by the fact that Willie Limond was giving him absolute hell for three rounds, and probably would have continued to do so if not for him bizarrely ceasing all movement and getting involved in too much of a fight. If Willie Limond can give him massive problems, there is no doubt in my mind that it's not safe for Erik to be allowed to continue what he's doing. When fighters get this delusional, it's best for their well-being that they are advised to stop by the people around them, even if it goes against business-interests.

 

Fernando Montiel vs. Nonito Donaire

I dont think I need to digress.:yep

 

that **** was scary when montiels legs started spazzin

 

I think it was that he tried to get up but he was completely out of it. His arms and legs seemed like they reacted, but the rest of his body didn't, so it looked like he was having convulsions.

 

Alex Leapai vs Nathan Briggs

Briggs was the better boxer, landing all too easily with straight punches, but Leapai's power was very much the difference in this one, as he landed plenty of looping hooks. I think he floored Briggs six times in the fight and it was finally stopped in the 8th round.

Leapai is my current favourite heavyweight - always brings the excitement (although it was kind of negated by Briggs in this fight).

Ranee Ganoy vs Somchai Nakbalee

Ganoy is another exciting fighter (his fight with Fatai Onikeke is one of the best I have ever seen), but this fight was a routine win for him. Close first round, stepped it up in the 2nd and floored Nakbalee twice to win by stoppage.

 

I've watched Donaire-Montiel twice now, wonderful left hook, even better in slow motion.