Andre Berto Rallies To Decision Luis Collazo To Retain

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At the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi, Andre Berto (24-0, 20 KOs) won a very tough twelve round decision over former champion Luis Collazo (29-4, 14 KOs). The scores were 116-111, 114-113, 114-113 for Berto.

The first round was a wild one. In the early going, Collazo rocked Berto with a hard left hand that sent him stumbling back into the ropes. In the final minute of the round, Berto used a combination to stun Collazo and worked him over against the ropes. Both fighters held on to get out of trouble. Berto used his faster hands to catch Collazo with some stiff power shots in the second. In the third, Collazo came right back by outpunching and outhustling as the two of them battled back and forth at close range for the majority of the round.

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In the fourth round, the ref took a point from Berto for excessive holding. Collazo picked his punches in the fourth and did the same in the fifth. Berto was landing the harder and more telling blows. The sixth was a power punch fest for Berto. He stunned Collazo near the end with some hard combinations. Berto's left eye was swelling bad in the seventh and Collazo sustained a cut above his own left. Collazo seemed tired in the round as Berto took advantage.

Berto put on a clinic in the eight, pounding Collazo with power shots to the body to slow him down. Then Berto used shots to the head to score points. Collazo rallied in the ninth by throwing almost a hundred punches. Collazo came back in the tenth with over 100 more punches as both fighters looked very tired. Berto came out with some desperation on his face in the eleventh, taking the fight to a tired Collazo. Berto continued his rally by battering a very tired Collazo in the twelfth and final round. He couldn't put COllazo away. The veteran used all of his will to stay on his feet as Berto was trying to unload all of his power shots.

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bigflip55Mon Jan 19, 2009, 3:09 PM UTC

good for berto, i wish i would have seen the fight, but a quality name on the list for andre, just one step in the right direction :trink26:

MJ406Mon Jan 19, 2009, 1:22 PM UTC

Im a jackass, because I don't bend over and agree with you? well so be it.I stick to my believes, wich are the majority, yes a lot of people think it was close, but they still give the fight to Collazo The majority of people here, knows and had Collazo winning. There's no such it could gone either way, that BS. If a guy deserves to win he deserves to win. You don't see people saying well, the Celtics won the seies but it could it gone either way, because the lakers played hard, or if is like in baseball game, you are winning 8-2 and because the other team hit a grand slam in the nineth the umpires decides to give the win to the other team, because they were great in the nineth, even tho' you have scored more runs!!!!!! Collazo deserve to win, End of the discussion!!!!!!!!!!!!!! while I'll agree with you regarding "could have gone either way" being BS im gonna have to stop there as the scoring in boxing, is much more subjective then basketball or baseball (the other sports you named + compared boxing to) I mean you said yourself .. a grand slam is 4 runs. If a team gets that, and the other team hustles it's *** off, but can only get 3 by the 9th inning, and only 3, they lose. effort aside 4-3 final score. But as far as boxing goes, I mean who do you give the rounds to? because the guy's doing a good job of fighting off the ropes .. however he slows up and takes some pretty hard shots in the process Boxing isn't so clear cut in scoring as you get varied scorecards from fight to fight especially in close ones a majority of the time (like this fight for example) But the general rule of thumb I use is that if you don't KO someone whoever wins more rounds wins the fight .. deserving or not. and on all 3 scorecards Berto won more rounds. Also there's an unofficial saying that the challenger has to "take the title" and I think Collazo did a poor effort on that part, especially in losing the last 2 rounds of the fight. so no I don't think Luis is "more deserving" of anything. He officially lost more rounds on all 3 scorecards and unofficially didn't "take the title" how can anyone say Collazo is more deserving when he did that? ^ I guess you could say the judging is s*itty, and Luis corner said before round 12 that the only way he loses is by robbery .. and that was before the fight even finished so why not protest, now that they got "robbed"

MayfeatherMon Jan 19, 2009, 7:28 AM UTC

Think im going to need to re-watch this one before making any judgement, great fight though

EquilibriumMon Jan 19, 2009, 7:10 AM UTC

Great fight, personally i scored it a draw. But the judge scoring it 116-111 for Berto needs to quit smoking crack.

MJ406Mon Jan 19, 2009, 5:56 AM UTC

Don't get me wrong the fight was close, but when Berto's own father starts telling him he needs to knock the guy out to win, and also when your own corner is telling you that you are down in the scorecards.... does this not make it a "robbery". oh please Berto's dad is irrelevant to the outcome of the fight and there's the reference again 2 posts above. if Berto's dad saying that is an indication of him losing the fight then what about Collazo's corner saying before the start of round 12 "the only way you lose is if we get robbed" ^ I don't see how that's an accurate indication of how the fight was going, and I'd put it right along side Berto's dad's comments .. both relatively meaningless to the overall fight action and even with the corner of Collazo's encouraging words that "the only way he'll lose is by robbery" Luis goes out and loses the last round of the fight. no, not a robbery that's called choking because Collazo blew it. sure rounds 11 and 12 are only two but when the other guy's already won 5 rounds up to that point ... you can't afford to give up the last 2 rounds (and even Lederman gave 11 and 12 to Berto) and that's what Collazo did.

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