Comments Thread For: Alexander is Not So Great In Outlasting Lucas Matthysse

[eklok]

i feel sorry for mathyse , that was clearly a win for him , hometown cooking at its best

[Brutal Honesty]

mathysse clearly won that fight in my opinion.

[TaurusJ27]

Another controversal fight for alexander.

[Big Lou]

Why cant Matthysse be a beast that "The Great" slayed

Sport fans and writers are spoiled by the few athletes that outclass thier peers by a margin so wide that contest are one sided white washes. If you give Matthysse his just due for being a monster in the ring, then Devon is indeed GREAT. If not, why did not get knocked out? Why where the compubox numbers so close? Devon and Team alexander refused to fight 2 bums in a row after his loss like most guys do. It was GREAT of him to be back in there with such a threat. He showed GREAT heart when it got tough. He could have won easier if he would have STRICKLY BOXED, BUT HE ****** WITH A ****ER to prove to all that he did have GREAT moxy.

As far as all this robbery talk goes.
Watch this video from the 4 minute to the 5 minute mark and tell me what figher is into robbery!

[rntolent]

As someone else wrote...its time to say bye bye to Cunningham. As much as he's done for Devon, he's hurting him now. Steward or Roach could in the least give him more than one game plan if something isn't going well. This fight makes the Khan Judah fight a bit more interesting.

[J Dubb II 330]

Good post big Lou, I think the robbery talk stems from bias against Devon, the fact we believe he already got a gift against kotelnik, and that most believe Lucas was already robbed against Judah, watch the fight again forget about hatred towards Devon, forget about where the fight is, forget about past robberies. devon won and the fight sways on the first round, depending on how you scored it. All other rounds were pretty decisive, big momentum swings from round to round, those rounds stick out in judges minds

[JakeNDaBox]

Jake is managing editor of boxingscene so I assume he knows a thing or two about the sport. He also knows fans will call him on any error made here so he either had a brain fart or is making sure your paying attention.

Brain fart, and thanks for pointing it out. Was a long, long weekend for me. Raced home from an all-weekend softball tournament 60 miles away, didn't know I was landing assignment to cover fight. Sleep deprivation more than anything else, just a brainfart/dumb oversight on my part.

[JakeNDaBox]

Sport fans and writers are spoiled by the few athletes that outclass thier peers by a margin so wide that contest are one sided white washes. If you give Matthysse his just due for being a monster in the ring, then Devon is indeed GREAT. If not, why did not get knocked out? Why where the compubox numbers so close? Devon and Team alexander refused to fight 2 bums in a row after his loss like most guys do. It was GREAT of him to be back in there with such a threat. He showed GREAT heart when it got tough. He could have won easier if he would have STRICKLY BOXED, BUT HE ****** WITH A ****ER to prove to all that he did have GREAT moxy.

As far as all this robbery talk goes.
Watch this video from the 4 minute to the 5 minute mark and tell me what figher is into robbery!

I'm not sure I'd call Matthysse a monster. He's a monster puncher, but also severely limited. He's not much different from his brother, except that he can take a punch.

Devon gets credit for stepping up competition-wise in his last four fights - but honestly has yet to impress in any of them. He fought on relatively even terms with Urango, but it was the shocking KO ending that had everyone talking. He's honestly looked extremely ordinary ever since then.

Tim Bradley never really blows you away from an entertainment standpoint, but there's enough talent there to indicate that he is truly among the best in his division, and perhaps in the sport. Devon has shown signs of potential, but has yet to translate it into actual greatness.

I thought this fight could've went either way. I thought the 96-93 scores both ways were off, and could've lived with 95-94 for either guy. Not a robbery in my eyes, but I also didn't see anything that suggests Devon has progressed very much from even the Junior Witter fight.

[AntonTheMeh]

Lucas got jobbed.

[Clint650]

Because I scored it round by round. I'm such a boxing freak that when I watch a fight I actually write down who I think won any giving round and compare my score to the judges.

I bet you didn't do that, I bet you just watched the fight and when it was over you screamed robbery.

yeah i pretty much watched it, scored it among three other guys watching it, and all three of us gave Lucas the edge, agreed he was landing the harder shots, agreed that Alexander looks like he's about to get knocked out, agreed that the scorecards were a bit too close going into the 10th, agreed that 10rds is bull**** why isn't it 12, agreed that Lucas won the 10th, and agreed that Lucas could have knocked Devon down every other round and still would have walked out of St.Louis with a loss. no one was impressed with Devon, and the result of him winning was disgusting, and we all agreed that Lucas has a future and Devon does not.