Comments Thread For: Lamont Peterson : Did My Part, I Won't Call it a Robbery

[Fetta]

No robbery but lamont put on good showing. Stock rose

[BuckToothed]

No robbery but lamont put on good showing. Stock rose

I think so also... Khan vs Peterson II at 147 (with OST) looks interesting again.

[Crazylegs77]

Wasn't a robbery. I don't know why Peterson was running early. Seems to me he was able to walk through everything Garcia threw, even early. It was like man vs child, but Garcia banked enough rounds early to make it a win for him, or close. It wasn't like Lamont won by 9-3,or 8-4 type fight. It was a close fight. I wouldn't have minded the nod going either way.

Peterson just kept himself relevant with that performance.

It was Petersons own fault, he must have known a close fight would leave him without the decision. He should have started letting his hands go earlier and more often. The fight was there for him to win.

[BCTaylor]

So judges no longer give credit to defense and ring generalship???-LPs jab and footwork won the first half of the fight and he walked him down with hard shots the second half of the fight-Please remember Dannys face after the fight vs LPs face after the fight-the bruises spoke for themselves!

[Basco]

So judges no longer give credit to defense and ring generalship???-LPs jab and footwork won the first half of the fight and he walked him down with hard shots the second half of the fight-Please remember Dannys face after the fight vs LPs face after the fight-the bruises spoke for themselves!

No, defense earns you no points and you don't have ring generalship if you are not in control of the fight by landing more punches than your rival. I love to watch devensive fighters but there is a difference between running and fighting defensively while dishing some punishment at the same time. So now the judges need to give points based on face damage? I guess elbows and headbutts are fare game too so fighters can inflict more physical/visual damage!!!!! My God, this NSB logic!!!!

[Mr. Punch-Out!!]

I just watched the fight again and...yeah, I think Peterson won that. People who said he did "too much running" either didn't watch the fight or wasn't paying attention. Peterson was outboxing Garcia while making him miss a lot of shots. He just simply went on the offense in the 2nd half but people seem to mistake that as "starting too late" when that's not true at all.

I will admit that he did move around a little too much in rounds 4 and 10 but this is a 12 round fight so people shouldn't go by just those two rounds. Every other round, Peterson was landing some significant shots that stopped Garcia in his tracks and later on, was doing it at will.

So...how did Garcia win again? Because he sure did nothing impressive and I think it's clear to everybody that his days are numbered.

[BCTaylor]

No, defense earns you no points and you don't have ring generalship if you are not in control of the fight by landing more punches than your rival. I love to watch devensive fighters but there is a difference between running and fighting defensively while dishing some punishment at the same time. So now the judges need to give points based on face damage? I guess elbows and headbutts are fare game too so fighters can inflict more physical/visual damage!!!!! My God, this NSB logic!!!!

I watched the fight closely and there were no headbutts and/or elbows at all-Danny caught clean jabs early on and left hooks later on to that eye and thats why it looked that way. LP could have gotten started earlier but I think he was strategically avoiding counter shots-Either way-I believe that Danny will be exposed at 147-No wonder AB wants to be the first to welcome him at Welter weight-everyone can see the blood in the water now!

[SilverMiles]

I'm going to try to not be bias so here goes:

1. Garcia won the early rounds even if he wasn't doing much damage, but at least he was throwing and landing a few body shots here and there.

2. What Peterson did in the early rounds wasn't boxing, he was running. His jab was hardly landing so it's silly for anyone to say he out boxed Garcia.

3. Peterson tapped that ass in the championship rounds.

4. Peterson got the better of Garcia in the overall fight but boxing is scored by rounds. He could easily won those early rounds with just a little bit of clean offense but something tells me he was worried about getting clipped early.

All in All Peterson loses but wins and Garcia wins but loses.

[sicko]

Fight was too close to scream "ROBBERY" IMO

I actually agree with the 114-114 Card

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"All Peterson did was run in the early rounds doe..."


Well, what exactly did Garcia do besides be a sitting duck and show an inability to throw any form of jab or cut off the ring? Peterson was outboxing him most of the early rounds and landing enough shots to win 'em. I had it 8-4, Peterson is just being a class guy because he knows Garcia personally and he's sure the fans know that Danny got another gift.