They Fought Today, Rios will KO Broner. Easy Money

[baya]

if you've ever seen a broner fight, and you've seen a rios fight you know that this match up is no guarantee win for broner. the dude has good adequate punch slipping skill but gets hit a bunch - plus - he stays in front of you. anyone who says this is an easy fight for broner needs to youtube these two guys. i'd put money on rios in this fight just because i know he'd be the underdog, but this fight is a close one. very close.

or i could be completely off.

[dan_cov]

oh dear.



he beat the piss out of Murray. i don't even like Murray, but i felt for him that night - that asswhooping he received was painful to watch.

the reason Rios laboured with Murray (relatively speaking) is because he could no longer make the weight and left everything in trying to do so. Rios is a fighter who builds in intensity as rounds pass, but against Murray he stayed on one level the whole fight long because he didn't have it in the tank. against a fighter whose style was made for him, he looked lethargic by contrast to just 5 months previous when he fought Antillon (a better guy than Murray). you could see it in his punches, too, which lacked their usual steam.

as a result, Murray sustained a long, drawn-out pounding (Joe Gallagher should have pulled him out two or three rounds before it was stopped) instead of the merciful early blasting he should have received.

that's not a hindsight view either, btw. i attended that card at MSG, spent fight-week sightseeing away from boxing news and wasn't even informed that Rios had missed the weight. watching the fight from my seat, i couldn't understand why Rios seemed so sluggish with every round and why his punches lacked their usual force. i got my answer when i returned home and did some reading.

even if a person lacks the senses to perceive those missing increments in performance level, they should at least be able to understand and acknowledge that the amount of sweat Rios left in the gym during fight-week (when he should have been tapering off) was bound to result in a significantly diminished performance level in the fight.

Abril's a much better fighter than Murray and a more challenging style (one that would give Rios issues in any case), so he was more equipped to take full advantage of Brandon's depleted state.

I don't care about him missing weight or any other excuse for sub par performances from the guy.

You can say he missed weight and whatever but you think Murray didn't have his own demons?
He was down in the dumps, had personal problems and was coming off a serious beating too Mitchell.

That picture Rios fans like to throw about as if to say ''Look what Rios did to Murray'' was actually from the Mitchell fight. Not saying Rios didn't wreck his face as well but Murray had only a few months to recover from that. (broken nose & fractured cheekbone I believe) Is it any wonder his face was such a mess given the short time he had to heal up?

Can't find that pic but here is another. He was coming off an absolute pasting.



I'm sorry but I don't want to hear about Rios's excuses when the reality is hes garbage. Be lucky to even repeat his win over mediocre Alvarado.

[_Gatti_]

Rios Kos Broner with no problem.

[Rome-By-Ko]

if you've ever seen a broner fight, and you've seen a rios fight you know that this match up is no guarantee win for broner. the dude has good adequate punch slipping skill but gets hit a bunch - plus - he stays in front of you. anyone who says this is an easy fight for broner needs to youtube these two guys. i'd put money on rios in this fight just because i know he'd be the underdog, but this fight is a close one. very close.

or i could be completely off.

I don't think your off,I actually agree with ya break down..The biggest issue I have with Broner is I truly don't know what he is yet..He's looked amazing against less then stellar comp..I need to seem him in with..A.A fighter his own size..B.Fighters that have a bit more skill,ya know up his level..

But I feel like this is a very interesting fight..

[S. Saddler 1310]

I don't care about him missing weight or any other excuse for sub par performances from the guy.

You can say he missed weight and whatever but you think Murray didn't have his own demons?
He was down in the dumps, had personal problems and was coming off a serious beating too Mitchell.

That picture Rios fans like to throw about as if to say ''Look what Rios did to Murray'' was actually from the Mitchell fight. Not saying Rios didn't wreck his face as well but Murray had only a few months to recover from that. (broken nose & fractured cheekbone I believe) Is it any wonder his face was such a mess given the short time he had to heal up?

Can't find that pic but here is another. He was coming off an absolute pasting.



I'm sorry but I don't want to hear about Rios's excuses when the reality is hes garbage. Be lucky to even repeat his win over mediocre Alvarado.

have you been imbibing?

Murray was eating punches all night. Rios needed Kevin Mitchell to soften Murray up for him first, as if defending with his face for almost an entire fight against Rios wouldn't have left Murray looking like the elephant man regardless of who he'd fought previously? i've heard it all now.

making excuses for Rios is hardly the point. if anyone is being driven by some predisposition toward Rios, it's the fellow who declares that he's the worst titlist in history.

"garbage" doesn't beat the fighters he's beaten (some solid foes in that bunch).

a truly educated observer wouldn't be so oblivious and unable to identify the skills that Rios uses when he fights, which is no major sin, not everyone can be a scholar, except that one gets the feeling from reading your posts that the the histrionically/exaggeratedly disdainful statements you make about Rios and his limitations are supposed to make you appear like some kind of expert among fans.

[S. Saddler 1310]

just to add, in case my comments above be misinterpreted as disdainful of Mitchell, Kevin is one of my favourite fighters and i called his KO of Murray right here on this very forum.

[ROSS CALIFORNIA]

i can see rios sneaking looping punches that broner doesnt seem comming.

lmao!!!!!!!!!

[dan_cov]

have you been imbibing?

Murray was eating punches all night. Rios needed Kevin Mitchell to soften Murray up for him first, as if defending with his face for almost an entire fight against Rios wouldn't have left Murray looking like the elephant man regardless of who he'd fought previously? i've heard it all now.

making excuses for Rios is hardly the point. if anyone is being driven by some predisposition toward Rios, it's the fellow who declares that he's the worst titlist in history.

"garbage" doesn't beat the fighters he's beaten (some solid foes in that bunch).

a truly educated observer wouldn't be so oblivious and unable to identify the skills that Rios uses when he fights, which is no major sin, not everyone can be a scholar, except that one gets the feeling from reading your posts that the the histrionically/exaggeratedly disdainful statements you make about Rios and his limitations are supposed to make you appear like some kind of expert among fans.

You outline something I say in an attempt to make a point but chose to ignore the rest surrounding it? He probably didn't need Mitchell too soften him up but he practically did anyway.

Hes beaten nothing but smaller guys who have been knocked out before and often multiple times before with the exception of Alvarado.
He hasn't beaten anybody worth a damn and neither has Broner for that matter.

Seriously write me a list of every world champion worse than Brandon Rios..
Because their sure as hell can not be many.

As for calling Mitchells K.O of Murray, it was nothing out of the ordinary, I called a late K.O myself. Murray is frankly a very ordinary brawler and nothing more. In fact 95% of Rios resume is filled with very ordinary brawlers.

[dan_cov]

I'm not even sure how this Rios hype came about tbh

Apart from being quite tough (quite easy too look when you haven't really so much as faced a puncher) & having maybe above average power, I see absolutely zilch.

I'm convinced that there are bums by the thousands walking the Streets who have never boxed before with about as much skill and they'd do just as well if given the opportunity.
Hes literally like a tough guy whose been dragged off the Street and spent 6 months in a gym.

How the fu.ck on earth he has got as far as he has is anybodies guess.

I'm not even exaggerating, the guy is fu.cking useless. It hurts my eyes just watching the guy.
Broner would slap the living ***** out of him. I don't even like the guy but he'd seriously hurt Rios, he may even end his career/put him in intensive care.

[SlySlickSmooth]

LOL. If this fight happened, I wouldn't be surprised at all if it Broner showed better inside game.