I'll pay to see cintron and cotto vs any of the top dog's in and around 147...as tyson said last week in one of his moments of clarity, people want to see blood. these guys bring the bloodlust.
STFU about Floyd and his retirement already, you say it in damn near every one of your posts. Anyway the real boxing fans want to see Floyd/Hatton not Hatton/Oscar
the real boxing fans want to see Floyd fight someone who's a threat to knock him out. hatton isn't at 147, which is why he's #1 on floyd's list of fighters to fight. cotto or mosely are the next 2 best 147 lb'ers and would each be the toughtest fight of floyd's career.
oh and oscar should and maybe will fight hatton in england for the largest amout of money any boxer has ever seen
I'd love to see this or any other big match-up around the welterweight div. I just hope dlh knows what he's doing going back to 147 after being higher for so long...in recent years, weight dropping hasn't done many favors to RJJ, the Tarver, recently Alan Green. We'll see...
Steward has help turn Cintron into a wrecking machine. I see Cintron by mid-to-late tko victory. Margarito would likely want to go on, but either the ref or doctor or his corner will wave it off.
FYI - Hearns as an amateur was not known for power. He'd pop and back off. Then he met Steward. Steward taught him to use his height, jab and to turn over the right hand. History was made and we saw one of the best right hands ever. Cintron has always been known as a devastating power puncher. Now he has Steward to help him refine his vast power and talent. I think if Cintron applies himself over the next 5-7 years, he will give anybody from 147-160 big problems.
Let's go back in history to the Vlad/Sanders fight. Lewis was still the champ and knew hbo was hyping Vlad. Lewis put in a call to his buddy C Sanders and told him exactly how to go about beating Vlad...and that's exactly what happened. Lewis had no reason to respect Vlad'd boxing ability back then if he knew he could help freaking Sanders beat him. Fast forward to today. Vlad is improved because he started boxing more with Steward. Lewis see's this, but he also knows Vlad is light years away from where he was when he reigned as the Undisputed champ. Lewis knew how to jab effectively and use his size/strength long before Steward started teaching Vlad the obvious a couple years back. Vlad will likely become an Undisputed champ in the near future, but he needs to stay there for years to accomplish what Lewis did. Lewis knows this, thus he likely has zero insecurity. Shit, Bowe threw away his title and a younger tyson paid lewis millions to NOT face lewis. insecure...haha...nice try
Originally Posted by .Mik.
I'd be embarrassed if I lost, gave no credit to the other guy, rolled around on the floor twice to different phantom low-blows and then denied it all after the fight.
that's the cleverest reply i've seen...i can leave this forum happy now that at least one other person has some wits about them
ps - 116-111 is only 1 round different than 115-112...in other words, not far off, not a wide discrepancy and very plausible. the boxingscene operator for round by round had it 9 rounds to 3 for Cal, by the by
I recommend that users here reading boxing news from legit sources and not just other bloggers. If they did, they see the carnage that Cintron leaves behind in training and how he sparred 7 rounds with Vlad Klitschko in his recent training camp...and held his own.
First, Cintron did NOT call out Floyd. He DID call out Shane Mosley and Sean Sherk (UFC 155 lbd champ). Regarding Floyd, all he did was state the obvious, that Floyd: has bargaining power to choose who he wants to fight, that he'd rather take the biggest money, and that he'd rather fight less dangerous fighters. Seems valid to me.
Cintron is a smart guy and well aware that he's at the bottom of the legit WW pecking order, which was why he made the boldest call out after the fight...to Mosley. Marg was supposed to win and fight Cotto and Floyd was all but set to fight Hatton then, which left 1 real big name...Mosley, whom everyone else seems to avoid and conveniently forget. "I heard Shane Mosley wants to fight for a title. I'm a champion. Let's get it on," Cintron said.
So did DLH right?
odlh barely had ko power at 154, let alone 1 punch ko power. about a decade back at 140 lbs odlh maybe had 1 punch ko power...but not the kind of 1 punch power cintron possesses. at this point cintron does not have the boxing skill odlh had/has, but with steward, it's very possible he can develop it.
let's not forget that Cintron called out ufc lightweight champ Sean Sherk back in May and said after he crushes Matthysse that he'd fight Sherk in an MMA fight. Add to that HBO and UFC negotiating a deal for UFC fights and I think we might have the first legit boxing/ufc crossover. I'd pick Cintron by a large margin.