Winky Wright vs. Sam Soliman

**Fox McCloud** · 11-07-2007, 04:09 AM

8th round commentary includes a story about a boat ride with Sam and a bunch of other Aussies... they all got out and swam, Sam was swimming on the opposite side from everyone else. There is one heavyweight with them who refuses to swim. The rest of the fighters throw the heavyweight into the water, only to find out that he can't swim. After much effort, they get him back into the boat... Sam later comes back into the boat, without a clue as to what has happened. They tell him, and Sam, being the complete **** he is, throws the heavyweight back in the water as a joke.

Nothing like attempted murder when it comes to breaking the ice with a nice joke.

EDIT: 9th round includes more **** talking on Harold Lederman, this time Jim Lampley joins in, saying that their commentary influences Harold to give rounds one way or another. This really is commentary at its finest. This **** is hilarious.

**BROOKLYN CESAR** · 11-07-2007, 04:11 AM

Originally posted by DWiens421

Just watched this **** for the first time. 2 observations:

1. Sam Soliman looked like the least skilled piece of **** ever in this fight. He probably was given a higher connect percentage than he deserved by HBO. My god, all this guy did was throw light ass punches, that didn't get close to actually catching Winky. And then he bitched about the decision. What a moron. I'm glad Bika knocked him out of The Contender.

2. Jim Lampley postively cracks me up on this telecast. I really am wondering if he was like tipsy or something that night.

Also, I thought it was priceless when Larry called Lederman out on not having a consistent scoring criteria. In the 4th round update with Lederman, Harold says that rounds are scored by who does the most damage to the other guy, period. In the 7th round update, Harold says that you you absolutely MUST give Winky lots of credit for his defense. Then Larry, being the **** he is, tells Harold that he thought rounds were scored solely on damage inflicted on the other guy.

Lederman: ...

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Uhhh, yeah Larry, absolutely.

Larry: Well what about the defense then?

Lederman: Well, it's one of the four scoring criteria!

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Lampley: WOAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AN INSIGNIFICANT PUNCH LANDED BY WRIGHT!!!!!!

Haha, I love when Lampley tries really hard to play the role of the peacemaker.

Anyone who doesn't have this fight should get ahold of it. It's entertaining, and literally the funniest fight I have ever seen.

I didnt think sam won the fight either but if his punches were so soft why was winkys face ****** up!!! it was a good fight for winky up boxed well!!!

**KoolWillie** · 11-07-2007, 05:52 AM

sam was robbed against bika

**Zerwas1** · 11-07-2007, 06:21 AM

Originally posted by KoolWillie

sam was robbed against bika

Ahm na he was not....

**QuCongee** · 11-07-2007, 06:49 AM

Originally posted by DWiens421

8th round commentary includes a story about a boat ride with Sam and a bunch of other Aussies... they all got out and swam, Sam was swimming on the opposite side from everyone else. There is one heavyweight with them who refuses to swim. The rest of the fighters throw the heavyweight into the water, only to find out that he can't swim. After much effort, they get him back into the boat... Sam later comes back into the boat, without a clue as to what has happened. They tell him, and Sam, being the complete **** he is, throws the heavyweight back in the water as a joke.

Nothing like attempted murder when it comes to breaking the ice with a nice joke.

LMFAO!!!!!

**warp1432** · 11-07-2007, 07:25 AM

I love in the 4th or 5th round where it's like:

"Dear Jim, how come HBO never shows the ring girls?"

*Shows girl with card*

"Hey Larry did you know it's the 5th round coming up?"

God that was halirious. Though too bad the version I have is in horrible quality with the sound.

**-Hyperion-** · 11-07-2007, 10:07 AM

Soliman was givn too much credit in that fight.....winky was blocking everything...beside WTF slederman talking about damage...clean punching is the #1 criteria....

**Tyson Jones** · 11-07-2007, 10:33 AM

I scored the fight for sam, winky had a very off night and the busy guy won, Winky didnt do squat.

**Fox McCloud** · 11-07-2007, 03:30 PM

Originally posted by warp1432

I love in the 4th or 5th round where it's like:

"Dear Jim, how come HBO never shows the ring girls?"

*Shows girl with card*

"Hey Larry did you know it's the 5th round coming up?"

God that was halirious. Though too bad the version I have is in horrible quality with the sound.

I'll up mine for you... great quality... look for it in the video downloads section in a couple of days.

Originally posted by tysonjones

I scored the fight for sam, winky had a very off night and the busy guy won, Winky didnt do squat.

Sam threw a gazillion punches, and landed a ton less than Winky. I really do think they gave same credit for landing more punches than he actually did.

Also keep in mind that any punch landed by Sam past the 3rd round gave a new meaning to "arm-punch." That **** had no power whatsoever.

Winky Wright vs. Sam Soliman