What did Fernando Vargas do wrong in the Felix Trinidad fight?

[Los Zetas]

that puto tito had wraps worse than any cheat out there


vargas will kill him in a street fight anyway

[baya]

vargas was just too young. sick fighter that may have fared better had he waited to take on vargas like a year or two later.

[Los Zetas]

vargas was just too young. sick fighter that may have fared better had he waited to take on vargas like a year or two later.

u so dumbbbbbbbbb

[baya]

u so dumbbbbbbbbb

why you gotta be like that, yo?

[Bushidō]

Nothing. He fought a pretty spot on fight. He was just not as good as Trinidad

[ROSS CALIFORNIA]

From a technical standpoint, what caused Vargas to lose in the fashion that he did?

What went wrong for the then 22-year-old 154 lb champion?

Post, discuss, and elaborate.

Basically his chin was not good enough to compensate for his lack of defense. A flat footed fighter without head movement is going to get hit. Also age was a big factor. Vargas was 22 (I think) going against an outstanding HOF fighter in his prime at age 27.

[jri9d0]

This is personally one of my all time favorite fights. But in truth, Fernando chose to stand in front of Tito and trade and the end result was a recipe for disaster.

Couple this with the fact I think he underestimated Trinidad in coming up in weight thinking he could bully Tito into submission only for Fernando to be beaten into oblivion.

[DondiNeverLeft]

that puto tito had wraps worse than any cheat out there


vargas will kill him in a street fight anyway

Angry much..lol

Ask Naazim about the wraps...get the flag out your ass

[Awesome-O]

Trinidad was just better. More powerful, more experienced.

Vargas was boxing well, he dropped Tito in round 4 and was outboxing him, but Tito got to him.

Vargas wasn't really trying to war with Tito in rounds 6, 7, and 8, but he was still getting hit with hard shots.

[IMDAZED]

I still feel winky did enough to win that fight, at no point was Vargas in complete control of that fight, in the championship rounds maybe winky could have pressed more to make his case but i just dont think he lost.

I haven't seen that fight in eons. I remember Vargas' body looking like he had a lackluster camp but managing to hang in there and then eking it out of the last couple rounds. Maybe Winky won. A lot of people whose opinion I respect feel he did so I might need to watch again.