He fought almost a whole fight with a broken jaw, against one of the most physically imposing fighters out there (Edison Miranda), and won.
That's more amazing than surviving 12 rounds with a fractured orbital bone against a smaller guy you outweigh by almost 20 pounds, who carried you in the 12th round because he's Catholic, and lose every round.
Forget the decision,who ever could go another 7 rounds with your jaw majorly broken like that deserves the upmost respect,i feel sick just looking at the pictures,imagine having to fight against a monster puncher like Miranda with a jaw which has been broken twice in the fight for 7 rounds,horrible!
yup, you cant even bite down on your mouthpiece to cushion the punches....your jaw is basically hanging there to be hit. And not to mention the blood in your mouth that takes away from your wind/stamina . arthur is a beast.
ALL HAIL KING ARTHUR!!!!!!!!
These rican's just MADD BUTT-HURT Margarito took Pacquiao's best shots for 12 rounds and Cotto got embarrassed by both of them! lol
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Not really.
I'm not in the Kneeguel Quitto crew, yet.
He has to avenge his suspect loss to Margo. And he quit, on one knee. Regardless of cheating or no.
You are getting paid to fight. People have money on you. Fight. If you can't, hang on to the 12ve, at least, for honor's sake.
Look at the competition AA fought compared to Margs. I like AA too.
Miranda can't be compared to Pac, skill wise, true. Pac is an ATG.
But Miranda is one strong MF'er. Maybe even stronger than Abraham!
Not very durable after Pav-licks, though.
wow great pictures hehe haven't seen those before
I thought the fight could have been stopped cos miranda was doing heaps of dirties in that fight
in the fight against dirrell i agree abraham was whinging a lot and they were not too low but in this fight there were heaps
Agree with this man. Miranda won that fight. Abe couldnt knock Miranda out until Pavlik took away his chin.
I don't think a knock out was even on his mind after the fifth round. He was just trying to survive through continuous low-blows and headbutts to the broken jaw. You might think the point deductions were excessive, but filthy Miranda deserved every single one.
That was a gift decision. Ref was so damn corrupt, so were the judges.
Agree with this man. Miranda won that fight. Abe couldnt knock Miranda out until Pavlik took away his chin.
I thought Miranda got robbed in that fight. He got lucky to break Abrahams jab like that, but we saw a bit of ***** in Abraham (complaining to the ref, whinging). Miranda got a lot of points deducted for nothing.
However, Abraham set the record straight in their rematch. He is the better fighter by far.
unless you face them into each other you will never know who will quit first and as its not going to happen there is no way of measuring just how much each man wants it until they are fighting each other. i believe arthur and margarito both believe they are winning or could get a win even when they have no chance and are beaten to a pulp, it's how they are wired up and only a very small percentage of fighters are wired that way....most portray themselves as non-quitters, but the few that would take their death fighting are smaller numbers still.....they are both 110% warriors and that i cant question....but to try and work out who is tougher is near on impossible unless you match them into each other
my guess is an broken orbital bone is not only more painful, but is also so much more dangerous as not only could it ruin your career it could leave you fukkin blind
Forget the decision,who ever could go another 7 rounds with your jaw majorly broken like that deserves the upmost respect,i feel sick just looking at the pictures,imagine having to fight against a monster puncher like Miranda with a jaw which has been broken twice in the fight for 7 rounds,horrible!
That was a gift decision. Ref was so damn corrupt, so were the judges.
I had it close. But the ref was absolutely corrupt.
Abraham still had to hang in there with a broken jaw.