Comments Thread For: Macklin Moves Forward With Decision Win Over Russ

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Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City - In the opening bout of HBO's televised triple header, middleweight contender Mathew Macklin (30-5) handed the inexperienced Lamar Russ (14-1) his first professional loss. The fight was basically a game of cat and mouse with Macklin playing the cat to Russ' mouse. Russ had a few moments late in the fight but for the most part refused to le his hands go.

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[GAR1680-Boxing]

I thought Lamar put up a great fight; way better than this story makes it sound. I had the scores a lot closer than announced. Seemed to me the young up-and-comer gave the veteran Macklin a good run for his money over 10 rounds. Though I might be a little biased, since Lamar Russ fights out of my home state, North Carolina.

[Weebler I]

Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City - In the opening bout of HBO's televised triple header, middleweight contender Mathew Macklin (30-5) handed the inexperienced Lamar Russ (14-1) his first professional loss. The fight was basically a game of cat and mouse with Macklin playing the cat to Russ' mouse. Russ had a few moments late in the fight but for the most part refused to le his hands go.

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Always good to see the cat get the mouse. I was on Tom's side back in the day.

[HardSciFi]

I thought Lamar put up a great fight; way better than this story makes it sound. I had the scores a lot closer than announced. Seemed to me the young up-and-comer gave the veteran Macklin a good run for his money over 10 rounds. Though I might be a little biased, since Lamar Russ fights out of my home state, North Carolina.

I thought it was actually a near shutout for Macklin.

However, I did think that Russ did well. He threw some good punches, and he held defense well to Macklin's big punches. But it's hard for me to find more than maybe a round or two that he won in this one when you compare Macklin's work to his round by round.

In any case, I think Russ showed that he's a legitimate fighter at 160lbs today. I doubt Willie Nelson would've done better (I didn't expect Nelson to do well vs Macklin, bc Nelson didn't fight well on his back foot in his last fight).

[bojangles1987]

Maybe it was just because he's lanky, but it looked like every solid punch that landed on Russ snapped his head around.

[Froch You]

Good workmanlike performance by Macklin.