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The fight went just as I expected. I always argue with people about the Hatton-Collazo fight. I dont argue over who won but I always get upset with people when they try to downgrade Hatton over that fight. Collazo is a beast. I always said, who cares if Hatton struggled with him. People act like Collazo is a bum. Then some said that Hatton just didnt belong at WW or was too fight and I said that was garbage. I said he had trouble because Collazo is the biggest/best or 2nd best guy he ever fought before Floyd. I dont care how he won, a win is a good win against Collazo.
I also made many threads on here about how Berto's people are crazy for putting him in with Collazo in his 1st big fight. No way you put a young inexperienced kid in with a crafty vetran Southpaw who has had a few big fights. Southpaws are too hard to fight and no way you risk that in a young guys 1st big match. I dont care if he was the mandatory, you take a pass even if it means losing the title. People still dont give Southpaws a big enough advantage in boxing. Fans try to act like there regular fighters but there not. Its a huge advantage to be a Southpaw in boxing.
As for the fight itself, I thought Poppa was an idiot for keep saying that there was a knock down in round 1. There wasnt. I scored the fight exactly like Lederman "except" I gave round 7 to Berto where he didnt. That means that I scored it 6 rounds to 6. I dont know how Lederman could give Collazo round 7. He clearly took both round 7 & 8 off. He didnt hardly throw one single punch in either round. Therefore I had Collazo winning 114-113 and I thought it was mostly pretty clear.
I wouldve gave the win to Collazo, "HOWEVER" In my own mind I wouldnt have gave Berto a loss because I thought that the point deduction was downright horrible for so many reasons. 1st of all there is No way you take away a point in a big fight like this unless it was a horrible foul. 2nd, he took the point away super early in the fight and how much could he have been holding that early? 3rd is I didnt think the holding was anything abnormal and some of it was both ways. That also changed how the fight played out later because you could tell there were times later when Berto was dead tired and he only halfway held because he was scared a point was going to get takened which allowed Collazo to keep shoe shining him. 4th, and most of all is that people dont even realize that the holding started in round 1 "after Collazo hit him with that good punch". Thats when the ref started warning him. The idiot ref acted like he never saw a boxing match before. Nearly everyone holds when they get hurt or into serious trouble. He shouldnt have been giving any warnings at that point. It was obvious that Berto was only holding because he had got stunned at that time but the ref warned him and he counted that as some of his warning when he took the penalty which I thought was bush league. Overall though it was a great fight and a great way to kick off 09. Berto will be fine since he got the win and I hope Collazo gets another shot with one of the other WW's.
I also made many threads on here about how Berto's people are crazy for putting him in with Collazo in his 1st big fight. No way you put a young inexperienced kid in with a crafty vetran Southpaw who has had a few big fights. Southpaws are too hard to fight and no way you risk that in a young guys 1st big match. I dont care if he was the mandatory, you take a pass even if it means losing the title. People still dont give Southpaws a big enough advantage in boxing. Fans try to act like there regular fighters but there not. Its a huge advantage to be a Southpaw in boxing.
As for the fight itself, I thought Poppa was an idiot for keep saying that there was a knock down in round 1. There wasnt. I scored the fight exactly like Lederman "except" I gave round 7 to Berto where he didnt. That means that I scored it 6 rounds to 6. I dont know how Lederman could give Collazo round 7. He clearly took both round 7 & 8 off. He didnt hardly throw one single punch in either round. Therefore I had Collazo winning 114-113 and I thought it was mostly pretty clear.
I wouldve gave the win to Collazo, "HOWEVER" In my own mind I wouldnt have gave Berto a loss because I thought that the point deduction was downright horrible for so many reasons. 1st of all there is No way you take away a point in a big fight like this unless it was a horrible foul. 2nd, he took the point away super early in the fight and how much could he have been holding that early? 3rd is I didnt think the holding was anything abnormal and some of it was both ways. That also changed how the fight played out later because you could tell there were times later when Berto was dead tired and he only halfway held because he was scared a point was going to get takened which allowed Collazo to keep shoe shining him. 4th, and most of all is that people dont even realize that the holding started in round 1 "after Collazo hit him with that good punch". Thats when the ref started warning him. The idiot ref acted like he never saw a boxing match before. Nearly everyone holds when they get hurt or into serious trouble. He shouldnt have been giving any warnings at that point. It was obvious that Berto was only holding because he had got stunned at that time but the ref warned him and he counted that as some of his warning when he took the penalty which I thought was bush league. Overall though it was a great fight and a great way to kick off 09. Berto will be fine since he got the win and I hope Collazo gets another shot with one of the other WW's.
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