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These are definitely worth a watch if they come back on... DVR them for sure.
The first was Chris McInerney (3-0) vs. Anterio Vines (4-5) in a cruiserweight fight. Vines has lost 4 of his last 5, and the last two were first round KOs.
McInerney knocks Vines down in the first and second round, but Vines does enough to come back and make it a 10-9 round in the second. Halfway through the 4 round fight, Vines is down 20-17. The third round has Vines putting McInerney down, and the 4th is clearly a Vines round. Vines ends up outlanding McInerney 80 to 50 or something like that. It ends up being a draw. Neither of these guys amounted to anything in boxing, but... the fight was tight.
The second was Richard Hall vs. Julian Letterlough in a fight of fringe contenders in the light heavyweight division.
Letterlough blasts Hall with a huge left in the first round, and it looks like the fight is over. Hall gets up, and puts Letterlough down half a minute later. Hall put Letterlough on the ropes and landed a bunch of unanswered punches to end the fight.
These two fights took an hour to watch on ESPN, and it was well worth it.
The second one ends with Jermain Taylor blowing Alex Rios out in a round, but... that fight is fairly lame.
Moral of the story... if you see two guys you haven't heard of on an ESPNClassic telecast, you should watch, because it's probably a tight fight.
The first was Chris McInerney (3-0) vs. Anterio Vines (4-5) in a cruiserweight fight. Vines has lost 4 of his last 5, and the last two were first round KOs.
McInerney knocks Vines down in the first and second round, but Vines does enough to come back and make it a 10-9 round in the second. Halfway through the 4 round fight, Vines is down 20-17. The third round has Vines putting McInerney down, and the 4th is clearly a Vines round. Vines ends up outlanding McInerney 80 to 50 or something like that. It ends up being a draw. Neither of these guys amounted to anything in boxing, but... the fight was tight.
The second was Richard Hall vs. Julian Letterlough in a fight of fringe contenders in the light heavyweight division.
Letterlough blasts Hall with a huge left in the first round, and it looks like the fight is over. Hall gets up, and puts Letterlough down half a minute later. Hall put Letterlough on the ropes and landed a bunch of unanswered punches to end the fight.
These two fights took an hour to watch on ESPN, and it was well worth it.
The second one ends with Jermain Taylor blowing Alex Rios out in a round, but... that fight is fairly lame.
Moral of the story... if you see two guys you haven't heard of on an ESPNClassic telecast, you should watch, because it's probably a tight fight.
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