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By John Hively - Last Saturday night, WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe disposed of reality star Peter Manfredo. Most fans thought the fight would not last the distance and it didn’t. The referee stopped the one-sided match during the third round, which was unfair to Manfredo since he didn’t appear to be hurt, and was avoiding some of the punches thrown coming his way.
On the other hand, he lost every second of the first two and a half rounds. The gap in skills was enormous, but Manfredo is a game kid, and he might have made it more competitive had the bout not been prematurely stopped.
Many fighters start out slowly, lose lots of early rounds and still come back to win.
Think about the Mike Weaver and John Tate fight in 1980. Weaver lost most of the early rounds. It was such a one-sided bout that I turned it off after ten heats. Why bother watching more of the same? Tate was way out in front. I stopped at a bar twenty minutes later and discovered that I had just missed one of the great comebacks of all time. Weaver stopped Tate late in the fifteenth round. [details]
On the other hand, he lost every second of the first two and a half rounds. The gap in skills was enormous, but Manfredo is a game kid, and he might have made it more competitive had the bout not been prematurely stopped.
Many fighters start out slowly, lose lots of early rounds and still come back to win.
Think about the Mike Weaver and John Tate fight in 1980. Weaver lost most of the early rounds. It was such a one-sided bout that I turned it off after ten heats. Why bother watching more of the same? Tate was way out in front. I stopped at a bar twenty minutes later and discovered that I had just missed one of the great comebacks of all time. Weaver stopped Tate late in the fifteenth round. [details]
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