he was being absolutely destroyed before that. he staggered 3/4 of the way across the ring after a punch he took for 9 rounds in the first fight
He was staggered by a punch. After that he recovered and went right back to trading punches with Castillo, just like in the first fight.
Casamayor doesn't hit as hard as Castillo and Casa had Corrales staggering across the ring when they both made weight.
I think the punch that ended it was just perfectly timed and would have been a one punch knockout regardless of weight.
Trainer = 10%
Cutman = 2-3%
Manager = 10 - 50%
They might waive their cut early in your career but they'll expect you to stick with them later.
Your trainer will typically be your cutman early in your career.
Another thing they do, besides the phony emotional breakdown, is bring the fighters kids into the ring after the fight. I think that it's complete BS to bring a child to a pro boxing match. Remember when Cotto's child was bawling his eyes out after seeing his dad get knocked out? He can thank HBO for that memory.
If Berto loses its his fault. He has all the assets to beat Urango.
Cotto/Clottey both have good speed/power. Cotto is more comfortable than the weight drained Clottey. Cotto should go to the body and break Clottey down.
Vic/Agbeko - Don't know Agbeko
Floyd/Marquez - Good big man beats a good little man.
The style of Joe Calzaghe with the stamina of Shannon Briggs.
Chin - Maskaev
Power - Spinks
Handspeed - Baldomir
Agility - Valuev
Defense - John Duddy
Footwork - Tua
Stamina - Jermaine Taylor
Technique - Edison Miranda
Heart - Andrew Golota
Ring Intelligence - Rocky Juarez
Charisma - Cotto
Trainer - Buddy McGirt
Just looked at his record :
http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=8099&cat=boxer
It looks like he never actually held a true championship belt. More of a mid-level fringe contender. Good win for your 11th fight.
He did get knocked out in his previous fight though (Singwancha). And I think I read he has hepatitus.
This win probably puts him in the top 30 in the division.
emile griffith killed benny the kid perett ..come on guys ?? i thought this was a boxing site ..i can think of ab 3 more cases related 2 death
He didn't die in the ring though.
Many fighters have died in the ring , I posted the entire list its a :pat:wonder nobody saw it .
The list you posted wasn't specifically people who died in the ring, it was people who died from boxing.
Owen Hart, that was before the match started though
He was still alive when they carried him out of the ring.
Edit :
I guess I was wrong
From wikipedia
Owen had actually died while still being tended to in the ring. The cause was later revealed to be internal bleeding from blunt chest trauma.
I think Tua's got an edge on power and toughness. Tyson's superior in elusiveness, which helps him avoid punches and set up punches.
Prime Tyson vs. prime Tua - Tyson probably wins. Tua has a punchers chance.
Present Tyson vs. present Tua - Whoever wants it more. Whoever shows up in good condition and fights with more heart.
boxing probably is "wrong" but at least it was honest before it was corrupted and turned into the "fake" sport that it is now.
I expect there are less fixes and less corruption now than previously.
I got mad love for Thomas Hauser, he's a great writer and one of the last mohicans as far as columnists who were throwbacks to the days of Jimmy Cannon and Gay Talese in the New York area. There is one column here that mixes boxing and politics, I made a thread 2 years ago cuz it was out of place.
Hauser is probably the best boxing columnist out there.
you dont need an iron chin. mcline,,,botha,,,sedrick fields,,and darrol wilson had far from iron chins
Those guys all have the reach though. Except Botha. I didn't see the fight but I read Briggs gassed out on that one.
That is not the case at all IMO. He'd been getting tagged all night by the heavy handed Briggs. You make it sound like a clean knockout. He more or less fell through the ropes on his own accord from exhaustion and an accumulation of punishment the second time, not any one big punch.
I think the second last punch before the first knockdown put Lyakhovich out on his feet. If not, the follow up did. When he got up his eyes were glazed and his legs were unsteady. That's why he fell through the ropes on his own.
Something to keep in mind, a lot of progress has been made with safety in the sport. Referees are stopping matches a lot sooner than they were in the past. Also fighters are fighting a lot less than in the past (which many people bitch about).
The sport would be better off if some fighters knew enough to retire when they should. For whatever reason though some of them don't. Maybe they could have an enforced retirement age of 30 or 35 or a certain number of matches; in some cases that would be too early and in some cases too late though.
There are other sports that have higher fatality rates. Boxing has much higher rates of brain injuries (like Ali's Parkinson’s).
It's a dangerous sport but the fighters know what they're getting into. I don’t consider it immoral to watch people who voluntarily choose to take risks. Risk is apart of life.
I agree, but same days weigh-ins would stop people from draining their bodies to make a weight that they should not be at. In the long run, that is more unhealthy for their bodies...
Some guys will do it anyway