
CompuBox Historical Review: Jessie Vargas-Lucky Boy
Welterweight contender Wale "Lucky Boy" Omotoso is busier than opponent Jessie Vargas - but against weaker competition (Smith & Augustus).

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Welterweight contender Wale "Lucky Boy" Omotoso is busier than opponent Jessie Vargas - but against weaker competition (Smith & Augustus).

B-Hop, 48, turned back the clock once again to become the oldest fighter to win a world title. Hopkins controlled the pace of the fight, limiting Cloud to 54 punches thrown per round and 12 landed. Cloud avg'd 22 of 72 in his previous five fights. Hopkins outlanded Cloud in 8 of 12 rounds and landed nearly half his power shots in the fight

One-Time hit Jan Zaveck 217 times while averaging 68 punches thrown per round. Keith Thurman avg'd 40 jabs per round and landed 45% of his power shots. Zaveck managed just 33 punches thrown per round.

Junior welterweight contender Emanuel Taylor got off the deck in the fifth round to drop and then stop heavily favored Victor Cayo in the eight round.

Hugo Centeno landed more jabs (80) than Leatherwood landed total punches (50). Leatherwood avg'd just 27 punches thrown per round.

Tavoris Cloud doubled Bernard Hopkins in punches thrown and landed. Questin is: can Hopkins gum up Cloud's offense enough to make the fight competitive? In Hopkins' last four fights (Dawson 1 & 2 and Pascal 1 & 2) opponents averaged just 32 punches thrown/landed per round. Cloud's last five opponents: Campillo, Mack, Zuniga, Woods, Johnson.

They throw similar amount of punches, but Keith Thurman is more accurate and hits harder. Thurman's opponents (Quintana, Lora, Hoskins) landed just 13% of their total punches. Jan Zaveck's opponents Ushona, Berto, Delgado.

Hopkins’ defense is his offense. His 10 light heavyweight opponents landed 50% fewer punches vs. Hopkins than in their previous four fights, throwing 36% fewer. (Hopkins’ opponents: Dawson I & II, Pascal I & II; Jones, Ornelas, Pavlik, Calzaghe, Wright, & Tarver. All were current/former champs except Ornelas.)

Richard Abril dominated second half of fight, outlanding Sharif Bogere 93-27 in power shots (non-jabs). Abril landed 55% of his power shots in the fight, while Bogere landed just 15% of his total punches.

Fighting much of the fight with an injured left hand, Gary Russell Jr. still managed to land 43% of his power shots. Gusev’s 33 landed punches are the fewest recorded in a ten round fight in CompuBox’s 28 yr. history.