Your thoughts on the Victor Galindez vs Eddie Mustafa Muhammad title bout.

Great fight but one thing that always pissed me off about the video is that you see Mustafa right before and right after he goes down, but never when. Damn.

 

You know Victor was quite cagey in addition to being a rugged fighter.

 

Eddie said in an interview a few years later that he "wasn't ready for Victor Galindez"...and he really wasn't, to tell you the truth. I think VG out hustled Eddie...it was that beautiful counter in round 5, plus Victor's (at that time) superior ring IQ over that oh so familiar (to Galindez)15 round distance...it was one of Victor's better performances, despite how close it was. As another Cobra said, "Victor was quite cagey"...

 

I thought it was tricky to score as neither fighter did a lot in many rounds. Here's my analysis:

Victor Galindez v Eddie Gregory/Mustafa Muhammad

My very own 'monument to indecision' - I scored 5 rounds of a 15 round fight even, albeit one of those rounds was a Gregory/Mustafa round but there was a nonsense point deduction from the ref.

This was nip and tuck all the way with two crafty and defensively slick fighters gaining little edges in there but most of the time shots were slipped and clean hitting was sporadic. I could probably watch this again and score a bit differently.

Galindez was a smooth operator but Gregory/Mustafa was almost relaxed to a fault. While I don't believe that a fighter has to win clearly to take another guy's title, I do feel Eddie was too patient in there, waiting to counter and not really taking the initiative as much as he should have - Galindez can already play that countering game well so it was a real cat and mouse affair.

Not confident in my final tally but feel Galindez did enough here to retain his title.

1 10-9
2 9-10
3 10-9
4 10-10
5 10-8 (flash KD)
6 10-9
7 10-10 (not a lot landed from either of them - super slick defense from both fighters)
8 10-9
9 9-10
10 9-10
1110-10 (tough fight to score)
12 9-10
13 9-9 (point taken from Mustafa?! For what?)
14 10-10 (this is hard to score)
15 10-9 (Gregory/Mustafa threw more but Galindez slipped most of them and took it with some deft countering)

Galindez 145-143 Gregory/Mustafa Muhammad

 

Very close fight. This fight was Eddie's to win IMO but he didn't show enough fire at crucial stages. Agree he was not quite ready.

 

Superb thread and all superb responses. Cheers Lads

 

I had Galindez 8-7 + KD. It's a not the worst fight I've ever seen, and it was at a very high level - but I won't be rewatching it.

 

Just bumping this thread after just watching this fight.

Victor Galindez vs Eddie Mustafa Muhammad

1 Muhammad
2 Muhammad
3 Galindez
4 Even
5 Galindez 10-8 knockdown
6 Muhammad
7 Muhammad
8 Muhammad
9 Galindez
10 Muhammad
11 Even
12 Muhammad
13 Galindez 10-7 2 point deductions stupid decision by the referee no need for it
14 Muhammad
15 Galindez

142-142 Draw

I felt Muhammad was hard done by in this fight, yes it was a close tactical fight. With both men showing alot of good defence, neither man threw alot of punches, but atleast Muhammad was consistently working behind his jab and landed a few eye catching right hands, also what in the world was those 2 point deductions in 13th round ? Muhammad got hit with a low blow and retaliated nothing wrong in that, and he gets 2 points deducted for that ? and considering the judges scorecards were 147-145, 148-147, 147-146, them two bogus point deductions ultimately cost Muhammad the fight.

 

Great post. The bias was obvious and the fight was very close.

 

Eddie was one of those fighters who had all the skills but consistent fire .. he had no business losing to Galindez . He had no business losing to James Scott .. he always had excuses but the reality was he lacked fire to compliment his insane talent .. Ray Arcel once said something about Ezzard Charles, that he was like an incredible horse that sometimes just wont run .. ( this was as a heavyweight and post Sam B.) and it was similar w Eddie .. I'm telling you if he had the fire of a Marciano he would have been as good as anyone at 175 .. the man was gifted ..

 

Absolutely. I know i'm critical of Holmes at times but you give Eddie the intestinal fortitude and sheer determination that Holmes had he would have been an ATG of solid standing. He had everything else in spades.