Another Huck round. 5-3, I believe. That was 8, yeah? Either way, Povetkin has nothing now. This looks like Ortiz vs Maidana. The guy with the better skill is scared but has just enough confidence to try to land homeruns every so often. Huck is running him over, though.
3-3, but this is one of those fights where I think the close rounds will go to Huck because he flurries with passion while Povetkin sorta chips away with body punching. Povetkin looks worn; his punches don't have a lot on them.
Just as I think, "Povetkin should close the distance and get chest to chest"... Huck hurts him from the outside. Taking a beating at times now from Huck.
Arreola would murder these guys.
Arreola has been hurt by guys worse in power than Huck. Arreola would be a dream for Huck; that right hand would have a permanent home. Arreola, of course, would love Huck for standing and trading. Great fight as long as it lasts.
Povetkin can't handle his power. If Huck could land a right, step BACK instead of smothering himself, and land another right I think he'd have a good shot at turning the tables around. Povetkin needs to fight from the inside because Huck doesn't have the craft to punch short. He's actually safer there.
Povetkin in control. Even in rounds but in both rounds Povetkin was the guy composed while Huck looks tight and without a gameplan. Povetkin is going to pull away and win the rounds by a large margin soon.
This ref makes Joe Cortez look like he knows what he's doing. Jesus Christ, quit jumping in while Huck is landing shots! EVERY time Huck is on offense he runs in between them even though it's Povetkin dipping down to purposely catch the shots on the back of the head. Every time their bodies even touch he breaks them. Ridiculous.
Huck wins the final round BIG; if not for Povetkin doing well enough early that would be a 10-8. Fight ends with Povetkin out on his feet and ready to go down without being hit as he goes to his corner. No robbery here; either guy won.
funeka is also like 6 feet tall and fights totally different than maidana so that means nothing. Guzman won the rematch pretty easily though
So because they don't fight similar it means it has to be discredited? The point was that Guzman couldn't handle the punch or the pressure from Funeka. You think Maidana can't pressure him to his brink or hit him hard enough to hurt him? Clearly Funeka showed that Guzman CAN be beaten - and by doing what Maidana does only Maidana is much better at it than Funeka.
Like I said - Guzman is cocky and would think early that he could just throw combos at Maidana and land at will on a hittable 'overrated' puncher. This would go bad fast for him.
Oh, and he only did so well in the rematch that only happened because Funeka was robbed blind by the 'draw' because he came in WAY over the weight. You're a fool if you didn't notice the difference in fight one and fight two where Guzman pressured Funeka, was much stronger, took his punches, and had too much power for Funeka.
I don't think much of Joan Guzman above 130. He fought a top contender at 135 and was beaten badly and nearly stopped.
Guzman barely got out of the Funeka fight on his feet and should have lost.
I think Guzman is cocky and trades with a fighter he thinks is hittable. Maidana stops him late.
Peterson and Maidana would both beat Rios. I just hope Gamboa KO's him 1st.
How does Peterson handle the punch of Rios?
And you'd have to favor Maidana over Rios but there are ways Rios could beat him. He could push Maidana back faster than Maidana could handle and outwork him a bit. If he could take the punch he is the better in tight fighter with sharper punches.
Lamont Peterson for sure. There is unfinished business and each man has a lot to gain from the victory. Peterson winning makes him a legit elite fighter ready for a big PPV type fight. Ortiz winning puts him back in that spot. The issue is the weight - a perfect time for a catchweight. 144, maybe.
The other fight is with Marquez to establish clarity between the two as Welterweight contenders. Winner has to be seen as #3.
Khan fight isn't any good. Khan isn't ready for Welterweight and coming off a loss isn't worth that much to Ortiz.
Rios vs Peterson would be a phone booth fight... for the one round it takes for Rios to stop him. Peterson has a weak chin and never really finished developing his outside boxing skills so he's more of an inside fighter with good speed and craft. That won't work with a better inside fighter with more than enough power. Maidana, Rios, etc. would all be major trouble for Peterson and early. Victor Ortiz is a headcase and don't let that fool you. I said it'd be an early Ortiz win and it was looking like it until Ortiz just... stopped.
I think it's funny to say Valero had no one punch power considering almost all of his wins were in the early rounds and almost every stoppage began off of badly hurting them with... get this... one punch. He wasn't getting Joe Calzaghe stoppages, people. He was landing that one clean shot and finishing them off with a barrage. He laid a few guys out cold, too.
Also, his competition wasn't THAT bad. Look at Tyrone Brunson and compare records. I don't think Brunson fought a single guy coming off of a win during his KO streak. THOSE are bums. It's a bit of hyperbole to say Valero was beating up bums. Valero was fighting the same guys that most anybody fights at the same level of experience. It has to say SOMEthing about him in that he ran a perfect KO record (especially the first round stoppages) against not bums but regular early career competition. Personally I don't just judge that a guy isn't fighting HOFers in their debut but rather the level of experience, the streak they're running prior to the fight, and how well the prospect won the fights. Valero fought some guys with a lot of experience, a few guys with winning records, and of course easily destroyed them. You have to be something better than average to do what he did. If not then wouldn't everybody have perfect KO1 records leading up to their first tough fight? The point is that it wasn't until he fought a world champion that anybody could even be competitive and then nobody was competitive again.
People throw that 'who has he fought?' stuff out at everybody like everybody has to be Kostya Tszyu or Oscar De La Hoya.
This fight is actually one of the more 'important' fights in boxing history. The "what if?" scenarios that come from it are insane. The most notable one of them all is the fact that De La Hoya by all rights should have fought Antonio Margarito but pussied out and thought he would cherry pick Manny Pacquiao; setting up Pacquiao to become a gigantic mainstream star and in essence setting Margarito up to get caught cheating by Nazim Richardson since he only fought Mosley as a back up plan to not getting Oscar.
What if Oscar fought Margarito instead of Pacquiao? What all happens in boxing instead?
- Manny Pacquiao most likely fights Juan Diaz and at the time even going to 135 would be seen as taking a huge risk. He would have destroyed The Baby Bull, setting up the same fight with Hatton at 140 next. There is no reason to think the same fight doesn't occur there.
- Oscar would have done a number on Margarito and stopped him; but probably not at that point in time. Margarito, specifically a loaded one, probably walks through Oscar and stops him within eight rounds. He would look like an unbeatable monster to some. If they could get him in the ring with Margarito then most likely Margarito goes after Berto and would have beaten him handily.
- Shane Mosley had looked pretty bad against Mayorga. Paul Williams probably would have won the race of fighters trying to make a name wanting to get to the Mosley that fought Mayorga. Not sure what happens in this fight. Mosley has power but Williams had an epic chin. All things considered I would probably take Mosley to take a beating for most of the night but pull out a really late stoppage with a barrage of shorts hooks on the inside when Williams looks to close the show. The other two options at the time were Sergio Martinez (prediction: Martinez shocks the boxing world and stops Mosley. He would be a much bigger star than he is now.) and Vernon Forrest (prediction: Forrest outboxes Mosley early... not sure how it ends. At this time Forrest was more aware of trying to score stoppages and might run into something. Doesn't matter really; I'd only think the first two fights probable.)
- You would have Floyd Mayweather still in the mix because everybody knew he wasn't really retired, a 140 pound dynamo in Manny Pacquiao that people still would think would get destroyed at 147 while Roach tells the world Pacquiao would beat anybody at 147, and then the 147 pound champion Antonio Margarito would look like a killer, and at 154 but willing to fight at 147 is a revived Shane Mosley who looks vulnerable but still has that punching power as evidenced by two late stoppage victories.
Interesting little boxing world right there.
Very interesting question. I would HEAVILY favor Winky to beat Mosley in a third fight. I would HEAVILY favor Winky to beat more contenders than Mosley. I think Saul Alvarez is a much more talented fighter than Peter Quillen. Yet... I would answer that Mosley has more of a chance than Winky stylistically.
Shane has the punching power and an opponent that takes risks and always aims to score KOs even if it means running through punches. Winky might have trouble with Quillen who rarely tries to look 'impressive' and is much more content on just getting the win even if it's a boring decision.
Conversely, however, I would be less surprised if Winky won than if Mosley won. I see a bad beating for Mosley but am not sure what will happen with Winky. If Winky isn't past his sell by date completely then he really could get Quillen to the ropes and hit him with a lot of shots. Mosley can only hope he can hurt Alvarez but has no actual hope of winning on talent or craft. Alvarez, a little before his prime, is actually a much more skillful boxer than Mosley ever was. Mosley can't win a decision without his power being a factor. Winky can outbox Quillen.
Valero takes this but we have no clue what kind of chin Broner has to determine the how and when. Broner was very wary of just Daniel Ponce De Leon's punching power. He would be WAY too defensive against Edwin Valero to have ANY chance of winning. Add in some other elements such as the fact that Valero was southpaw just like Ponce and perhaps that also threw Broner off. Valero was very talented in his own right and so it is unfair to label it as if it is Mayweather vs Mayorga. The skill levels are fairly even, really. Valero was the bigger guy with more experience as well. All of this stacks up against Broner like a mountain.
Oh, and the DeMarco win was very good. DeMarco was and is once again a legit top 5-7 in the division. Knocking the TKO not being a 'brutal KO' is pure stupidity considering he made a guy quit that otherwise has been in brutal wars and won several fights with come from behind knockouts including one where he was rocked and got the stoppage in the very same round. To have outclassed a guy with his courage so bad as to make him give up says a lot for Valero.
I would fight a hand picked opponent, so to speak. A guy he can beat but has momentum. Look impressive and set up the Pacquiao rematch/Mayweather fight. As it is he is considered a big underdog and that may drive a small bit of money away from the table.
I would actually target the winner of the Ortiz vs Berto rematch at Welterweight. Puts him back in the rankings there lining him up for Mayweather or Pacquiao in every possible way.
Fight Vitali at Heavyweight. Vitali is awkward enough that I could buy Hopkins having the craft to outbox him - at least as far as buying into the fight. I think Wlad is way too coordinated but a fight with Vitali is a little interesting.
Roman Gonzalez, Alfredo Angulo (he puts people away on one shot; durable guys too. Kirkland has to beat them down.), Arthur Abraham, and Nonito Donaire would be my picks.
Judah has no shot.
Cotto would have to beat Mayweather. HAVE to.
Martinez would have to clean out the MW division by beating Pirog (or Geale), Abraham, and Chavez Jr. He would probably also want a Canelo Alvarez or Miguel Cotto. He SHOULD fight two top SMWs..
Holy ****.
Amazing fight. Orlandito is my 'top prospect' out there but Juan Carlos Burgos is very good and much more experienced. He's also the much lesser hyped guy which usually equates to hungrier.