Thoughts on stevens-texeira, herrera-gomez, lemieux-tapia and canelo-khan

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  1. cereal monotony

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    Stevens-texeira: A sweeping blowout. With all this talk about the globalization of boxing, its clear that with some notable exceptions, the rest of the world still has a long way to go to catch up with the US and other boxing countries.

    Herrera-gomez: herrera's liabilities finally caught up with him. he's never been the most talented fighter, but hard work and smarts has taken him a long way. now, past his prime and shopworn, young fighters like the moderately talented gomez can easily exploit herrera's lack of power and lack of natural ability.

    lemieux-tapia: tapia coming off 2 ko losses in his last 5 fights, including a brutal demolition by james kirkland, seemed like damaged goods from the first round. slow to react and lacking mobility, he was basically a punching bag for lemieux. lemieux on the other hand, looked defensively porous with a suspect chin that threatened to betray him everytime tapia did land with authority. a good fight would be lemieux-quillen. both lack skills and both depend on their power. it would be an explosive preliminary to big ppv event. i think quillen's chin and power is a little better than lemieux's though.

    canelo-khan: after the third round, harold lederman said he gave it to canelo because "khan didn't dominate with his jab like he had in the first two rounds":?...that told me all i needed to know about this whole fkin fiasco. the SMALLER man....the guy moving UP two weight classes has to DOMINATE? to win rounds? What the gatdam fcuk!....so lederman gave canelo the benefit of rounds where khan was clearly landing the better punches...because khan didn't absolutely shutout canelo. seriously, schit like this makes me sick. but i guess what they're really saying is, canelo is so incompetent, they even have to protect him against light-hitting jww with glass jaws:lol:, even though canelo looked like a frickin smw in there...oh well, that's what boxing has sunk to. then after the fight canelo made a big show of wanting to fight ggg, clearly ducking any specifics and avoiding making a direct challenge...so, i guess it's onto canelo-pac next and then maybe canelo-bradley and canelo -crawford....hey, the mexican fans don't seem to mind, so don't expect a canelo-ggg fight to happen this decade.
     
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  2. Classic_Boxing

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    Right on bruh I feel ya it's on some racist ****
     
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  3. Rock0052

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    Canelo-Khan reminded me of Crawford-Gamboa. Alot of people were freaking out that Gamboa was having early success because of his speed too, unaware that the larger man was simply being patient with someone who couldn't hurt him. Once the timing was down, game over.

    GGG-Canelo will happen, as I've always said it would. Canelo has too much pride. Every time the critics get loud enough claiming he's ducked someone that it gets back to him, he gets Oscar to make the fight. People give him credit at the time, then forget about it in two weeks when they move on to the next guy "he'll never fight because he and GBP are taking the easy way out".

    All this talk was just marketing, but the plan was always to fight Golovkin next. He picked Khan not just for the money in the short term, but because nothing sells the next fight like a highlight reel KO, which was guaranteed here. Ask yourself why they put two knockout-artist GGG victims on the undercard against fighters they figured couldn't hold up. It wasn't just to build up Stevens and Lemieux. It keeps GGG on the brain the entire telecast, right up to having him in the ring post-fight.

    I still don't see why people are convinced that fight doesn't happen.
     
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  4. Alabama BBQ

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    :lol::rofl
     
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  5. The Shockmaster

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    "Canelo-Khan reminded me of Crawford-Gamboa. Alot of people were freaking out that Gamboa was having early success because of his speed too, unaware that the larger man was simply being patient with someone who couldn't hurt him. Once the timing was down, game over."

    agreed
     
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  6. Blackclouds

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    Good catch on this one. HBO does tell on themselves like that often, I try to be as fair as I possibly when scoring fights, scoring round by round, in a vacuum as much as I can. I feel the judges should be doing the same. What if Kahn needed those rounds to win a decision, if he wins rounds but doesn't get his due, that's robbing him and isn't fair.
    Mexicans fans support their fighters, can't hate on that, though there's a legit reason for Canelo not to get specific. The fight might not happen with ggg this year. Not like the fans are going to understand boxing politics.
     
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  7. Blackclouds

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    Would you like some extra mayo with that bruh?
     
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  8. Reg

    Reg Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    They aren't comparable at all. And Gamboa nearly flattened Crawford...
     
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  9. Rock0052

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    Oh yeah. Crawford was really on the brink there. :lol:

    If Gamboa were bigger, it could've been a different story. He landed enough flush shots that if he'd had the capacity to "flatten" Crawford, or at the very least knock him down, it would've happened.

    The point stands. You can get away with eating some shots while you get your timing down if the other guy's too small to really hurt you. That was the case with Crawford-Gamboa. That was the case with Canelo-Khan. That's naturally going to make the smaller guy look their best in the early going.
     
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