If penalosa is throwing back hard counters, that prolly means hes still in the fight. They were over rating the beating he was getting, he never even got seriously hurt. Yea the dude got hit, but wtf its a fight. He was making Lopez look bad in my opinion. He still had 3 more rounds to make something happen on a tired Lopez and he was giving us a good fight. Fuk man!
Penalosa had the ability or the chin to last till the 12th round... but he was getting really beat up... and at his age, he can't afford to take those kind of beatings... Roach did the right thing..
Penalosa was taking one of those beatings that would manifest 5-10years later. roach did the right thing, Penalosa wasn't going to drop, but Roach may have preserved a couple years of Gerry's life.
penalosa didn't object because he understood the situation.
all respect to Gerry for standing up to that.
juanma is scary good though
I gotta agree with OP..it seems that Penalosa still has that one punch in his pocket that could end the fight..Penalosa was countering him and i thought one punch could have turned the tide..maybe im just being bias but Roach should have given Penalosa 1 more round..im so sad.
I think they are over hyping the beating. Penalosa made Lopez look bad in the way that he threw record breaking punches but he couldnt stop the smaller older penalosa, roach had to do that for him. Lopez was clearly getting tired. Alot of those punches landed on penalosas gloves and he looked pretty damn well for being on the receiving side of a supposed "battering" and record breaking punches. I take nothing away from Lopez hes a good fighter and I was telling my friends he was a bad dude but IMO, gerry made him look lesser than what the media is hyping him up tp be.
first Juama wasnt tire, he wasnt even Breating hard.
Juanma landed 444 Power punches in 9 rounds, enough said!!!!!!!!!!!!
sure thing and calzaghe landed 240 air slaps against hopkins. compubox should be abolished.
If penalosa is throwing back hard counters, that prolly means hes still in the fight. They were over rating the beating he was getting, he never even got seriously hurt. Yea the dude got hit, but wtf its a fight. He was making Lopez look bad in my opinion. He still had 3 more rounds to make something happen on a tired Lopez and he was giving us a good fight. Fuk man!
you're crazy... juanma was breaking records for most punches thrown and most punches landed...
roach did the right thing
i agree, i always thought a corner stoppage was due if a guy was not fighting back.......gerry was clearly fighting back and landing good shots......
and so much for roach's nostradamus type perdictions huh?
If penalosa is throwing back hard counters, that prolly means hes still in the fight. They were over rating the beating he was getting, he never even got seriously hurt. Yea the dude got hit, but wtf its a fight. He was making Lopez look bad in my opinion. He still had 3 more rounds to make something happen on a tired Lopez and he was giving us a good fight. Fuk man!
I don't know about a tired Juanma, but I agree that the fight should have continued. Gery could have got a lucky one in, and I wanted to see if Juanma could take Gery down.