
CompuBox: Plus/Minus Ratings, Stats as of May 2010
PLUS/MINUS RATINGS – ACTIVE FIGHTERS LAST 5 FIGHTS FOR EACH FIGHTER

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PLUS/MINUS RATINGS – ACTIVE FIGHTERS LAST 5 FIGHTS FOR EACH FIGHTER

GREATEST PLUS/MINUS BEATDOWNS IN SIGNIFICANT FIGHTS IN COMPUBOX HISTORY

FLOYD MAYWEATHER & SHANE MOSLEY– BY THE NUMBERS

Chalk one up for professionalism, tenacity and conditioning. Because of these traits, former light heavyweight and cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek is now a player in the heavyweight sweepstakes. His 12 round decision over the courageous but outclassed Chris Arreola was achieved largely with a determined stretch drive that saw Adamek’s speed trump Arreola’s power.

Tomasz Adamek used combinations and lateral movement to upset Chris Arreola at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California. Adamek doubled Arreola in power shots landed for the fight (128-67). Adamek had a 60-24 edge in power shots landed over the last six rounds.

Junior middleweight Alfredo Angulo overcame a slow start, and a busier Joel Julio, to score a eleven round TKO win at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California

When A.J. Liebling called boxing “The Sweet Science” he did not have fights like Saturday night’s HBO doubleheader in mind. Heavyweights Chris Arreola and Tomasz Adamek and junior middleweights Alfredo Angulo and Joel Julio are action heroes with high-octane offenses that have produced a combined 97 knockouts in 120 victories – a glossy and gory .808 KO percentage.

When the fight between undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and James “Buster” Douglas was announced, the sports world reacted with a yawn. “Just another beatdown for ‘Iron Mike,’” we all said. “Can’t anyone give this guy a competitive fight? There’s no way that Douglas is ‘the guy,’ and we can think of much better ways to spend a Saturday night than watching another Godzilla movie.” Douglas was considered a 42-to-1 underdog, at least according to the sportsbooks that were taking action on the fight – and most of them weren’t. “We’re flying all the way to Japan for what, two or three rounds?” we thought to ourselves. “Douglas is sure to wilt under Tyson’s pressure a lot sooner than he did against Tony Tucker three years earlier.”

Twenty-five years. A quarter of a century. A generation. If a person is granted his promised three score and 10 years, it takes up more than one-third of his life span and if he is fortunate the next 25 years will prove to be the most productive.

As Larry Merchant often says, boxing can answer questions as well as question answers and such was the case when IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute stopped Edison Miranda in three rounds and Sergio Martinez decisioned Kelly Pavlik to become the new WBC/WBO middleweight king.