Comments Thread For: Brandon Rios Wins Close Split Call Over Richard Abril

[MrRolltide91]

This is yet another reason why I would never bet on a fight. Ever. Boxing can't let one remotely important fight happen without controversy. Someway, somehow, every fight these days gets f***ed up.

If I were Tim Bradley or Miguel Cotto, I'd be horribly depressed right now, because even if those two fight a tremendous fight they probably have no chance at a decision. If one of those guys gets robbed, I'm probably done with boxing for a while.

And its another reason to not buy a ppv fight

[Willy Wanker]

Close? Maybe only on the judge cards.

Abril dominated this fight.

[kozone]

Respect Rick Reeno bro....

and Abril was holding Brandon an awful lot during the second half of the fight

Abril stayed in the pocket and let rios throw all that garbage which did no damage!!
Rios was so frustrated he started throwing shots to abrils Back and to the back of his head! Rios lost and lost bad plain and simple

[Someone88]

That was disgusting Abril clearly won the fight

[sirron000]

LMAO, I hate Rios, but I hate that Cuban ***** wayy More LOL, Glad he got robbed!

******ity at it's best

[ProBox1]

So why write that he kept holding him from rounds 5 thru 12? Anyone who hasn't seen the fight and reads your article is gonna assume that he held more than he boxed.

He did, but the fault goes both ways and I note that Rios continued to stay close to him and continued to charge in, there was no distance, and Rios either smothered his own punches because he refused to create distance or the punches were blocked. Even Abril wasn't thrilled with his own performance because he knows the network execs who were there, and there was even someone from Showtime, weren't happy with the lack of action in the "grudge" main event.

[Tamis!]

Just when I thought Top Rank vindicates themselves with a coupla good undercards in Gesta-Cuera, and a possible FOTY candidate in Alvarado-Herrera.... then this shyt of a robbery in Rios-Abril happens.

[Bermuda]

Nobody is trying to do anything in boxing about making it better. Everything is $ driven in all major industries, so you will never get any just or quality decisions.

well we saw mensah who was the underdog against katsidis and who was fighting in a pro katsidis crowd get the right decision. But I guess not alot of money or anything was on the line for that fight.

[mathed]

that puto got beaten over every single round, he did not win more than 1 round the entire fight. I hate this flipping sport more and more every time this stuff happens. Rios ain't win schit and I'm tired of getting all these calls right and having the judges rob people....phuk paying my bets.........I won..../story.

[mathed]

it was the worst robbery I have ever seen....no lie