When he’s warmed up and gets into a fight, Lamont Peterson is one of the better pressure fighters in boxing. His strength is his inside skill.
In rounds eight, eleven, and twelve, he showed how good he could be. If his scrap with Danny Garcia were a street fight, he won. At the end of the night, he beat up Garcia more than the other way around.
The problem in boxing is that it isn’t scored on a simple who-kicked-who’s-ass harder scale. It’s scored three minutes at a time.
This scribe thought Peterson did enough to win on that basis too, seeing it 7-4-1 in rounds. That was a muddy score. There were a lot of close rounds, rounds where Peterson appeared to be dictating the pace but crossing the line between boxing and running.
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In rounds eight, eleven, and twelve, he showed how good he could be. If his scrap with Danny Garcia were a street fight, he won. At the end of the night, he beat up Garcia more than the other way around.
The problem in boxing is that it isn’t scored on a simple who-kicked-who’s-ass harder scale. It’s scored three minutes at a time.
This scribe thought Peterson did enough to win on that basis too, seeing it 7-4-1 in rounds. That was a muddy score. There were a lot of close rounds, rounds where Peterson appeared to be dictating the pace but crossing the line between boxing and running.
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