What fight did you watch recently/last night

[roxy]

I watched Juan Manuel Marquez/Freddy Cruz from a long time ago. I looked up Cruz's record later and he fought a ton of well known fighters, usually extending them the distance. Talk about resumes!

[sonnyboyx2]

Just finished watching Lewis v Holyfield (2) i had Holyfield the clear winner 7-5rds.. Lewis never landed one single power-punch in the entire fight, He was tired, lathargic and did not know what to do or how to box, Lewis defence was non-existant.. here is my score card:
1/. Holyfield
2/. Lewis
3/. Holyfield
4/. Holyfield
5/. Lewis
6/. Holyfield
7/. Holyfield - Lewis staggered twice and hurt
8/. Lewis
9/. Lewis
10/. Lewis
11/. Holyfield
12/. Holyfield

[sonnyboyx2]

[The Surgeon]

Just finished watching Lewis v Holyfield (2) i had Holyfield the clear winner 7-5rds.. Lewis never landed one single power-punch in the entire fight, He was tired, lathargic and did not know what to do or how to box, Lewis defence was non-existant.. here is my score card:
1/. Holyfield
2/. Lewis
3/. Holyfield
4/. Holyfield
5/. Lewis
6/. Holyfield
7/. Holyfield - Lewis staggered twice and hurt
8/. Lewis
9/. Lewis
10/. Lewis
11/. Holyfield
12/. Holyfield

I rewatched this a while ago and my scorecard cant be much different to urs if at all, that was a win for Evander but it wasnt as bad as the draw Lennox got in the first fight, i mean that was a blatant robbery. Get the feeling that this was to make up for that somehow! lol

[The Surgeon]

The last full fight i watched was Marciano vs Walcott 1, Suzy Q HELLO!

[sonnyboyx2]

I rewatched this a while ago and my scorecard cant be much different to urs if at all, that was a win for Evander but it wasnt as bad as the draw Lennox got in the first fight, i mean that was a blatant robbery. Get the feeling that this was to make up for that somehow! lol

i agree 100%...

[1SILVA]

i agree 100%...

It was an extremely close fight, yet the HBO announcing team acted as if Holyfield was never in the fight. Lampley and the crew have tremendous bias towards their house fighters.

[The Surgeon]

Its not a fight but i watched Lights Out last night the new boxing based tv series. If u havent seen it its worth a watch

[1SILVA]

Bradley vs Peterson

Round 1 Bradley (close)
Peterson was winning the round but Bradley nailed
him twice with overhand rights to steal the round imo

Round 2 Bradley
Bradleys speed was a factor early in the round and helped
him land counter right hands. Toward the end of the
round Bradley landed another right that shook
Peterson up

Round 3 Bradley 10/9

Bradley knocked Peterson down but i thought he came
back well enough to make the round a 1/9 instead of
10/8. It was a short right on the back of the head that
dropped Peterson

Round 4 Peterson (close)

I gave this to Peterson as he i felt he landed the
harder shots and a lot of Bradley's shots were inaccurate
besides a couple of counter rights

Round 5 Bradley (close)

Peterson came back well but i felt Bradley's early work
of using angles and countering took the round for me.

Round 6 Bradley
Excellent round for Bradley. Bradley used the angles
and countered up and down. Peterson inactive

Round 7 Bradley
Niether man got much done but Braldey's fast
counters were more eyecatching. Peterson coming in
straight and not cutting Bradley off

Round 8 Bradley
Terrific performance by Bradley so far. Bradley back
to countering with the right hand and using angles

Round 9 Bradley (close)

Close untill Bradley closed it out better nailing
Peterson with a nice right and a combo.

Round 10 Bradley
Continues to use the angles and speed to counter

Round 11 Peterson
Peterson may not have won this round but he put
a lot out particularly toward the end

Round 12 Peterson
Peterson was more consistent and landed
the cleaner shots imo.


I felt Bradley's style was all wrong for Peterson but i still
felt it would be a competitive closer fight than it was because Bradley has
left himself open in the past, and when all said and done Peterson is a good fighter. I
expected Peterson to use his height more and i felt Bradley would be the
aggressor and would use speed/angles to outwork him. To my surprise
Peterson was the aggresor but the angles, speed of Bradley was still
the key weapon.

It all comes down to Peterson's style imo. Peterson fights with his
hands high (Winky esque) which means he fights pretty square, that
takes the pop off his right hands and means he has to get closer to his
opponent to get his punches off, he can also only really punch when
you stop punching, his vision is impaired by how high he hold his
gloves, he rarely moves his head to create angles to punch off so
he tends to come in straight lines.

Bradley took advantage of all of this imo. Bradley used his legs and asked Peterson
to cut the ring down because he knew Peterson could not get off from range, he
needs to be closer to you in order to get off. Peterson comes in straight with
his hands up and little headmovement. At times Bradley was able to shoe shine,
impare his vision, use angles and spin off, plus Peterson can only respond (counter)
when you have finished your combo because of his style. Peterson tends
to commit to the jab at all times because of his style which makes it easier to slip and
counter.

I dont think Bradley knowingly took adavantage of all this its just that Peterson's
style is all wrong for Bradley.


Bradley used great speed and discpline, discipline because he only laid inside once
and gave Peterson the only chance he had, which was to stop using his legs
lay inside and let Peterson get off. Its like i said earlier, Peterson is only
effective when he can get that little bit closer to you, but from long range all he has
is his jab, he commits to that( jab) which leaves him open to overhand rights.
A lesser fighter would of saw the success they were having
and tried to press their advantages and languished inside too long and gave Peterson
a better shot than he had. Bradley did this once but had the forsight
to realize his game was on the outside making Peterson cut the ring down.

Michael Spinks vs Vonzell Johnson, 1981.

I have to give Johnson, he gave it 100 percent against Spinks, but he just wasn't on Spinks level. Spinks cut the ring off on Johnson all night with his underrated left jab and legendary right cross, backing up Johnson, who hit Spinks a few times but didn't affect Spinks at all. The end came in the 7th, as Spinks ended a combination with the Spinks Jinx, dropping Johnson with a thud. Vonzell got up, but after one more left hook by Spinks, referee Larry hazzard stopped the fight. Spinks may have had the greatest right hand in 175 pound history.

[Heavy Bag]

Michael Moorer vs Francois Botha

Alot of heavy leather gets traded in this fight, on both parts. But in the end Moorer's conditioning and power see him through, in a farily exciting brawl which was back and fourth for the most part.

Botha do is completey gassed out when the fight is stopped in the 12th. Teddy Atlas also does his usual screaming & motivating talks in between rounds to Double M, which is always entertaining to watch.