Garcia represents the new gen.

[S. Saddler 1310]

Vicious headbutt with probably more to come

it's a fight, things happen.


it's not just the sport that's going soft, apparently, but the fans as well. do you Mikey apologists watch any fights from further back than 5 years?

[ßringer]

Call it what you want. It doesn't sit well with me, cos I'd rather have seen a more legit win, but that fight was only going one way. And I think Salido deliberately headbutted him anyway out of desperation.

Seemed to me that Salido did it intentionally, too.

He was rushing in with the old Hopkins and Holyfield trick of leading with the head, but after the punch grazed off of Mikey's face it looked as if Salido wrapped his hand around the back of Mikey's neck and held him there for the follow up headbutt.

He appeared to be holding behind the neck with his right hand to me.

[ßringer]

it's a fight, things happen.


it's not just the sport that's going soft, apparently, but the fans as well. do you Mikey apologists watch any fights from further back than 5 years?

Christ that was a bad gash over Kessler's eye.

[S. Saddler 1310]

I'll call it a domination and Salido getting desperate trying to land something, no matter if it was an elbow or a headbutt.

'cause that's what it was.

except he didn't feel up to finishing the job, or giving it a go for even a single round, because he had a broken schnozz.

which kinda takes some of the gloss off all the good work he did.

[S. Saddler 1310]

Christ that was a bad gash over Kessler's eye.

*******. this is a Mikey Garcia thread, after all.

[Porter's Dad]

anyone's free to venture their opinion of where the fight was headed (interesting that the quit coincided with Salido's best period of the fight, though), but it's hardly the point.

i'll call it a quit, 'cause that's what it was.


it's not a good forbode for the future of this sport. just admit it.

It's not good in the sense that Robert Garcia seemed to have tonight invented the idea that you can end a fight because of a broken nose.

But you're trying to say it encapsulates the new generation of fighters who quit. Which it doesn't. Have you forgotten the fight before?

And trust me. Mikey is made of the right stuff. Anyone can see that.

[S. Saddler 1310]

It's not good in the sense that Robert Garcia seemed to have tonight invented the idea that you can end a fight because of a broken nose.

But you're trying to say it encapsulates the new generation of fighters who quit. Which it doesn't. Have you forgotten the fight before?

And trust me. Mikey is made of the right stuff. Anyone can see that.

Gabe Rosado is the future of this sport? first i heard of it.


re. bold type. i don't trust you. i trust what i just saw at the 'end' of that fight.

[ThePunchingBag]

except he didn't feel up to finishing the job, or giving it a go for even a single round, because he had a broken schnozz.

which kinda takes some of the gloss off all the good work he did.

except you're not putting yourself in Mikey's shoes. You're setting up Orlando to possibly get a KO he doesn't deserve.

What's worse?

Stopping the fight after you get your nose broken by an illegal move when you are winning the fight by a long shot or winning a fight because you headbutted a guy after he dominated you with his boxing skills?

If Orlando had gone on to win that fight because of that headbutt then would you say the better fighter had won?

If you think yes, then you clearly aren't a fan of Boxing, just a fan of brutality.

[Porter's Dad]

Gabe Rosado is the future of this sport? first i heard of it.

Me too. Who said it?

[S. Saddler 1310]

except you're not putting yourself in Mikey's shoes.

i'm not putting myself in either guy's shoes.


it was shameless opportunism.