The 'what fights did you watch today?' thread

It's a fight I'll definetely be watching again at some point (and again etc..) :good

 

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It costs to get more of Marcel (unless you have awesome trades, I don't, so I paid) His fights with no.1 Featherweight (WBC Champ) Kuniaki Shibata and the uber-skilled and powerful counter-puncher Antonio Gomez (WBA Champ) are well worth a look as well, if you ever want to take a look, let me know and I'll hook you up :good

 

Cheers mate :good.

 

I watched Lewis vs Klitschko yesterday.

Very good fight, high activity and both took some heavy shots.

Ending:

 

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The full fight should be on YouTube duranimal :good

Pintor was class, and that was a class era for the 118lbers, and followed on from another great era for the weight.

At 122, Zarate and Pintor could only try to beat Gomez :yep Insane bunch of men.

 

It's been too long since I actually sat down and watched a load of fights.

I'll have to do it tomorrow, which means not going to sleep at 5 in the morning and waking up at 3 in the afternoon. I'll work my way up from straw upwards.

 

I'd take any suggestions on who to watch on board too. 2 or 3 fights a modern-ish has had that ''define'' them.

 

Kessler-Froch

Round 1 - Froch
Round 2 - Kessler
Round 3 - Froch
Round 4 - Froch
Round 5 - Froch
Round 6 - Kessler
Round 7 - Kessler
Round 8 - Kessler
Round 9 - Kessler
Round 10 - Froch
Round 11 - Froch
Round 12 - Even

Total - 115-114 Froch

Good fight but really hard to score. Majority of rounds were very close. My general feeling was that the battle of the jab was essentially even, Froch was landing the harder power shots early and in some of the later rounds too, whereas, Kessler was excellent to the body. Could not decide on the 12th as they both threw a lot, both missed a lot and were both knackered by the end.

I know the general consensus of this fight has been that Kessler won by a couple of rounds so are there any rounds I have scored here that people would remember seeing very different? Would love to see a rematch certainly:deal

 

Had an Arguello fest the last couple of days

Vs Limon, Chacon, Castillo, Boza-Edwards, Ramirez, and Watt.

Just about to sit down and watch Mancini.

All great fights, just a shame the Ramirez fight is only a 10 rounder. Need to watch again cause not convinced he won that.

 

I had it 6-4 Ramirez. Before you count the knockdown.

I've said a few times recently that I think that was a real robbery. Competitive fight throughout, but JLR won that fight for sure.

 

TYSON DURAN: The Marcel-Arguello fight is on there as well :good

 

Saensak Muangsurin Vs Sang-Hyun Kim

MUANGSURIN: 4; 5; 6; 8; 9; 10
KIM: 1; 2; 3; 7; 11; 12

I was intrigued about seeing this for a number of reasons. The first one, to see how the **** someone not named Thomas Hearns managed to stop the Thai Caveman. But mainly, because the only time I'd seen Kim was getting battered by a peak Aaron Pryor and not doing anything about it. He looked shocking.

And here, he doesn't do anything special, but he came prepared with the perfect gameplan and stuck to it. Not making the same mistake as others and relentlessly hitting the target and lowering your stamina to a level where you'd make more mistakes and the Thai could smash you, Kim constantly employs lateral movement, and, with a lesser chin, Muangsurin would've been out of there inside three rounds.

The 1st two rounds show who is more suited to his all southpaw battle, as Kim peppers away and fires combinations off at his awkward, but open Thai opponent. In the 3rd round, the Champion, caught off balance as always (his balance was horrible) is backed up against the ropes, and despite his best efforts to block or dodge, he is pummeled by the sharp and fast Korean for nigh on a minute.

After that though, Muangsurin starts backing Kim up, prodding his jab out to head and body, and catching him going out with wild lead right hooks or overhand lefts. In the 5th, the Champ really gets going, and lands a vicious lunging club of a left from afar, slips Kims responding two hooks, and backs him up again.

Muangsurin just about gets the more meaningful shots off for a while. When Kim opens up, he has him in trouble, but he seems to wisely save his energy for the later rounds rather than getting in a pure war of attrition like Furuyama did, and most likely, Monroe Brooks did. Saoul Mamby was robbed against Muangsurin by all accounts, after seeing this, it's hard not to think he did a much better job than Kim and was robbed.

Kim comes back into it as we go into the deep waters, ever shot he lands is snapping Muangsurins head back, but the Thai keeps on plowing forward, trying to destroy the sapling that stands in front of him.

He tries too hard in the 13th. He swings a wild right hand, and Kim walks him onto a picture perfect and straight left cross. Muangsurin is completely wiped out. Completely. But on his feet for the count of 10

Kim WKO13 Muangsurin


Facomron Vibonchai Vs Koji Kobayashi

At last! The gangly Thai, whose record stands at a none too impressive 2 (2)-4 (2) on boxrec (and anywhere that has anything listed about him) is billed at 18-3(11) at the beginning of this fight, with the decent Kobayashi, who was at one point THE no.1 Flyweight in the World (briefly).

To any Canto connoisseurs; Vibonchai gave him a bit of hassle.

Here, at Super-Fly, the Thai tries hard, but just isn't as elusive as he thinks, and his upright stance sees him get hit even when he tries to pull away from shots. He's also way outsized, and gets battered into a weary standing surrender in the 2nd round. Still, was good just to see more of him and to shed some light on him.

Saul Monatana W10 Venice Borkhorsor H/L: Borkhorsor looks scrappy here, especially compared to how he looked against ATG Bantam Herrera, but both show flashes of what them quality (Montana was nothing more than a journeyman really, but his opposition was INSANE, he doesn't look bad in the few flashes you get of him here) and, to be honest, I felt privileged to watch it.

 

Numata Vs. Rojas

 

:happy What a fight!

Numata was always susceptible to body shots, but to pulls Shoryuken out of the bag?!? EPIC ;-)