Valdez Survives Knockdown, Controversy: Upsets Montiel
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he can still beat morel. valdez is not morel.
we should also take the cut into consideration. things definitely started to change for montiel after he got the cut. i was streaming this fight, so i didn't get a good look at it.Comment
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It was a technical decision and the decision was a draw after 3 rounds, nobody lost. The cut clearly bothered him, but i agree it looked like he overlooked Valdez. A rematch could be in order, but i know a lot of people wanted to see the Morel fight.Comment
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so they didn't change it to a win for valdez then, huh? i thought the article was implying that they had changed the decision. i just checked boxrec and it lists the fight as a draw just as was announced during the ppv. thanks for the correction.Comment
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they changed it back to a draw sometime after the show. It went from a technical draw to a 3rd round TKO, back to a draw. I made the adjustment in the article.
Still doesn't change what happened. Montiel fought until the cut became a nuisance, shut down, and was bailed out by the crooked ass Mexican boxing commision. If the cut was caused by a butt, then I could see forgiving Montiel. But he flat out quit, repeatedly looking to the ref for assistance, bitching about headbutts that never occurred, the ref warning Valdez for fouls that never occurred.
I really don't care what the final verdict was. Valdez climbed off the canvas and gained validation. Montiel quit.. and to be honest, a Montiel-Morel fight never really interested me, certainly not in the capacity of occupying space on Cotto-Pac undercard.Comment
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