Gamboa looked like a cross between Roy Jones and Tyson in miniature form. Then he started with mild retardation behavior, making decisions he obviously thought where great ideas. But everyone else with half a brain knew they where just terrible awful choices and he never stopped making them, and now he is way past full retard and is where he is at because of his own choices sadly.
I don't think Choco boy is up to that right now,Choclatito should regroup now get his confidence back so the downhill slide stops, Rigondeaux hits deceptively really freaken hard for a guy his size that's why most people don't really come after him after they taste his power.
He lost that means he was always trash obviously that's how it works around here. For real tho everyone with half a brain doesn't sh*t on a guys entire career when they finally loose .That being said I never believed the HBO hype train it was too much and annoying to the point where when he lost that first fight after Jim was kissing his ass the whole fight calling every time he landed even a look and ignoring Rungvisais efforts I was pretty amused. But I thought he would turn it around and recover on the second fight and we may get a third which would have been awesome, sadly he didn't.
With all due respect to Lomachenko weight doesn't affect reactions that way. I think Rigo should retire it's only gonna get worse from here like Roy Jones once your reflexes diminish enough it's game over. Also the translator sucks ass.
I think the best thing he said was IDK why the referee stopped the fight because neither do I dude wasn't down if he was hurt bad enough he would hit the canvas just cause someone is bent forward covering their stomach isn't reason enough to stop a fight unless the fighter asks for it. Weeks must have thought Kovalev was pregnant or some shit
Dan Rafael reported earlier that the NSAC reviewed the fight and will change the official result to 'No Decision'.
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That would be the right call. It's in the rules unintentional foul that results in a fighter being incapacitated = a no contest. They where both throwing the better punch landed. They should rematch imo.
I mean they'e stupid not to want to make it at 130 even with Arum's Nonito Donaire night terrors. I'm for Rigondeaux been a fan longer than most, but at 130 he is way too handicapped he ain't big enough for that. Just like when Gamboa did it with Crawford. You can handicap yourself when your'e miles superior to your opponent but even at a 124 catch weight this was a very close fight to call if you're being real at 130 they should be jumping on that.
Part of me wants to say yes I hope so. Just so a circus sh*t show like this never happens again, but the more human part of me is against assault. It's a close split tho 51/49
Pacquiao got old faster than Floyd that's all. With Floyd's style he's hardly taken any punishment most of his career Pacquiao on the other hand has been through hell and back several times as small as he is and the sh*t he has put himself through I'm quite surprised he even stayed competitive this long.
Quote the ward fanboy's incessant talk about his bodywork here and, and then lets laugh at them together tomorrow
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Interesting that watching from Sky and directly from HBO, both Jones and Pauli, two former fighters, said that Flores pulled an act. Pauli said he could tell it was fake the way Flores fell and landed on the ground and the delay Flores had was suspicious.
They both thought the same thing I did I just heard Jones, but obviously I wasn't the only one who found that funky. Either way fair thing is a no contest that's the truth. Both threw Flores was slow and inaccurate Rigo wasn't.
Rigo hits hard but not that hard that looked like he was out there doing the kung fu move from kill bill exploding the dudes hearts 2 seconds after he connected.
I don't agree with that. Ward put his arm body head balls and soul in that punch he caught Kovalev with. I'm not saying he has an Iron chin but it aint weak that would have put anyone on bambi legs.
The stoppage was clearly the worst thing for me because at the moment you couldn't tell they where low til 10 replays later showed the good angle ref's miss low blows ALL the time, but Kovalev should have taken a Knee instead of doing whatever the hell he was doing. From Tony Weeks higher angle it probably looked like Kovalev was just taking a pounding to the stomach while wincing completely forward from the pain in agony but even so the guy isn't even taking a knee that was a knee jerk reaction from Tony IMO.
That stoppage was bad and reactionary.
What boxing fan in their right mind would give two ****s about that exhibition b/s fight it's nothing but a PR stunt I wouldn't buy it with someone else's money on principle alone they think us morons and so does the media.
He was once top 10 P4P after crushing the 130 division.
Also, what else makes people say Broner is bad is that he lost to Porter and Maidana. But didn't Maidana almost beat Floyd (close) in the first fight? Didn't Maidana destroy an undefeated Victor Ortiz? Porter himself is good, but not elite.
All i'm saying is that people's opinion of Broner doesn't really match anything else they say. If people want to say Broner is a mediocre/bad fighter, then their permission to say that Broner was a good win for Mikey is revoked. Beating a "mediocre" is not a "good" win. Beating a mediocre fighter is a mediocre win.
But people say it's his best win??? LOL what?
It IS, but then they say he's bad/mediocre, you see where i'm going with this? It just makes no sense.
Yeah that's why I can't pick mediocre either not in good continence because he doesn't fit that, especially the" loosing to any top 10 fighter in any weight class" part. I don't believe that, but I can't pick the good option either based on that description you gave of a "good" fighter right now.
Because question as I read it it's asking where Adrien Broner IS right now at this moment in time, is he good elite mediocre or bad?. So taking that into account not his past, then I don't see him as elite, or good boxer right now by your standards (by mine I would say he is good) because that good requirement you put up there is really high, cracking the top 10 P4P of boxing right now ain't no joke, if you accomplish that you're probably better than just good.
That's why I said the requirement for "good" in this poll it's too demanding there should be another label on the "good" description maybe "great" then have a "good" option with less demanding requirements which is where I would put him right now in this moment in time. But that's just my opinion.
Depends on the opposition. That being said your "good" criteria is fking bonkers high for a fighter that's just "good" cracking the top 10 P4P list should earn you more than good status . You should have at least one more level between good and elite . I think he is good but doesn't meet that good criteria.
I enjoyed it some it had it's moments and wasn't boring, but it frustrated me to see Broner not being able or be willing to pull the trigger. It looked like he thought he would get points for shaking his head after getting whacked with punches instead of punching back.
They edited like a motherfker, but any halfwit who knows sh*t about boxing saw a push down they even cut cortez saying no knock down. They don't know what else to do to try to sell this bullsh*t.
Rigondeaux is literally the boogie man we'll never know just how he would have handled guys after the Donaire fight nobody wanted to fight him everyone jumped ship from 122 like rats, and to this day Arum probably wakes up in cold sweats thinking about all the money that fker ruined for him when he took Donaire's soul through his eye.
At this point in Rigo's career idk who would win at 126, but I sure as sh*t know who is the most feared as good as Lomachenko is ain't nobody scared of him.