The 'what fights did you watch today?' thread

The missus is away tonight with the kids, so....... got lined up tonight:

1) Dunne V Cordoba
2) Skelton V Big Rogie
3) Marquez V Diaz
4) 4 tinnies of Bass



Looking forward to all 4!

:good

 

i need to see Dunne vs Cordoba aint seen it yet

 

Its up on youtube pater was an amazing fight

 

i have it on DVD just havent got round to it will watch it tommorow

 

I watched it drunk and with a serious sore head after getting a car boot slammed on it and thought it was great i have to watch it again maybe now or tomorrow

 

:rofl:rofl

thats a great story to tell the grand children the day you saw this epic fight

been watching alot of Monzon lately the guy is amazing

 

I have been using him a lot in fight night i agree he is amazing

 

haha

i hope thats not all you have seen of him, watched teh Benvenuti fights the other day he is a machine

 

Serious i find it hard to watch any black & white films its a flaw i have.

 

what?

thats blasphemy to me, how dare you.

I think i have 1 Monzon fight in colour so no excuses.

 

It's my attention span :-(

I tried a few times to watch a black and white one but i tune out to easy

 

unlucky you then.

Maybe its jsut how were wired. I think theres something hauntingly amazing watching an old black and white tape. and you learn a heap of moves etc...

each to there own though

 

Nigel Benn-Michael Watson: I forgot what an incredible fight this was and what a top performance it was by Watson..

Also watched 3 Bob Foster fights against Allen Thomas, Dick Tiger and Frankie DePaula, the guys power at LHW was just insane

 

Joe Louis vs Buddy Baer 2

 

I watched JMM vs Casamayor.


A wonderful technical boxing match that I frequently re-watch. Some other thoughts:

First things last, I thought the stoppage was correct in this context, but had it come earlier in the fight I think they should have let Casa try and make it through the last 15 seconds of the round. Although because it came in the 11th, on the back of a probable 10-7 round which handed JMM the fight, there was really no point letting it carry on.

People in the GF were trying to tell me this fight was a good example of someone being outboxed. Frankly, I can't think of a worse example. It was a very close fight, Casa lost his way for about 3 rounds in the middle after the cut, but arguabley swept the early rounds and was, again, arguabley winning the 11th when the fight was stopped.

A good example of someone being outboxed: Lewis-Tua. A bad example: JMM-Casamayor.

I don't think Casa at age 38 is shot, just badly faded. The biggest issue that I see is in the legs. His movement is about 40% what it used to be. And there are some stamina issues, he takes too many rounds off these days. That aside, he landed the left so many times, which is quite extraordinary against an opponent of JMM's quality.

Casa's handspeed is still good, his chin is still good (despite the stoppage, he took some real bombs). I personally still think Casa could pick up another world title, although he certainly isn't the figher he once was. Despite remaining one of the best counter punchers in the game.

The fact that his legs have gone means he isn't nearly as elusive as he once was. It was odd to see Casa coming forward and intitiating the action.

The US commentrary of the fight was excllent, best I've heard. Really strong analysis of the fight from a technical perspective.