Comments Thread For: Rocky Mountain Hell: Post-War Report Card

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Everyone knew it had the potential. The match, the men, were too perfectly suited to think the world would get Wladimir Clinchko-Alexander Povetkin II.

The fight met expectations and then some, giving us moments of incredible violence, guts, and ultimately surrender. In a year chock full of excellent fights, this was one of the best. That the winner may have been in the two very bets scraps of the year is reason to borrow the clichéd title of an old Hollywood classic.

A star is born in Ruslan Provodnikov. A warrior remains in Mike Alvarado. [Click Here To Read More]

[charlieg]

When you've got nothing left, it's not quitting. It is saving your health for the future. Alvarado gave everything he had in pursuit of victory but it wasn't enough. The only thing he could have given beyond the 10th was a highlight reel KO for the Siberian Rocky. This was no Ortiz vs Maidana. It was a spent, broken man leaving the ring before suffering the kind of damage that ruins a fighter.

[crold1]

When you've got nothing left, it's not quitting. It is saving your health for the future. Alvarado gave everything he had in pursuit of victory but it wasn't enough. The only thing he could have given beyond the 10th was a highlight reel KO for the Siberian Rocky. This was no Ortiz vs Maidana. It was a spent, broken man leaving the ring before suffering the kind of damage that ruins a fighter.

Fair or unfair, surrender is always judged by conditions. This one was fine.

[NachoMan]

I think you should consider adding more categories to you fight eval. Provodnikov's stamina and chin/punch resistance seem to carry him through these fights even more than his power IMO, but those things aren't even considered in your evals. Speaking of power, how in the world do you rate Alvarado and Provo's power the same? Alvarado isn't feather-fisted by any stretch, but his punches don't seem to carry anywhere near the force of Provodnikov's.

[Hougigo]

When you've got nothing left, it's not quitting. It is saving your health for the future. Alvarado gave everything he had in pursuit of victory but it wasn't enough. The only thing he could have given beyond the 10th was a highlight reel KO for the Siberian Rocky. This was no Ortiz vs Maidana. It was a spent, broken man leaving the ring before suffering the kind of damage that ruins a fighter.

who initiated the forfeiture?