Sergei Lyakhovich WINS vs Lamon Brewster

[ejk22]

Lyackovich - Brewster

9 10
9 10
10 9
9 10
10 9
10 9
8 10
10 10
10 9
10 9
10 9
10 9


Total score:
Lyackovich 115
Brewster 113


This is how I scored the fight.

[enadeus]

I had like this, with Sergei the first card:

10-9
10-10 (Even round I felt.)
10-9
10-9
9-10
10-9
9-10 (Even thought there was a knockdown, I thought that Lyakovich dominated like 85% of the round.)
10-9
10-9
10-9
10-9
10-10 (It was close could have gone either way.)

118-112

[Guest]

Just reading the latest... I see Bozo's opinions are as valid as always. Brewster went the way of Mormeck and Lacy... isn't it time this prick ****ed off the site and left boxing discussion to men, not little boys who live with their parents?

[DiegoFuego]

Lyackovich - Brewster

9 10
9 10
10 9
9 10
10 9
10 9
8 10
10 10
10 9
10 9
10 9
10 9


Total score:
Lyackovich 115
Brewster 113


This is how I scored the fight.

that should read 114-112, 7 rounds to 5 is 115-113 but there was a knockdown

[DiegoFuego]

I had like this, with Sergei the first card:

10-9
10-10 (Even round I felt.)
10-9
10-9
9-10
10-9
9-10 (Even thought there was a knockdown, I thought that Lyakovich dominated like 85% of the round.)
10-9
10-9
10-9
10-9
10-10 (It was close could have gone either way.)

118-112

no offense but you have to score rounds with knockdowns 10-8. still, sergei definitely won the fight.

[ejk22]

that should read 114-112, 7 rounds to 5 is 115-113 but there was a knockdown

Calculate my numbers again. They are 115-113.

[mECHsLAVE]

no offense but you have to score rounds with knockdowns 10-8. still, sergei definitely won the fight.

No, you don't. The only thing a judge MUST do is give the winner of the round 10 points (unless a point is deducted from him by the ref).

Generally speaking, the fighter that gets knocked down loses the round 10-8, but not if the other fighter comes back in a significant way. Sergei did not as the round ended after he got up. So yes, that should be a 10-8 round if I were scoring, but not just because of the knockdown, but because Brewster did more damage in the round and finished the round stronger.

I normally don't agree with 10-8 rounds without a knockdown, either. Not unless it is TOTALLY dominated by one fighter and the other fighter doesn't do ANYTHING of any significance. Sergei and Brewster both had rounds that ALMOST qualified as 10-8 rounds without knockdowns, but each always did just enough to get back that point. Brewster did it in that one round with like 6 secs left- he stunned Sergei right at the bell after being out on his feet and a punching bag for the entire round, but I felt coming back to hurt Sergei was enough to salvage a 10-9 round. And likewise when Sergei was caught against the ropes taking all those shots and hurt, but he came back and landed some big shots on Brewster, so it was a 10-9. I know quite a few people scored one or both of those 10-8, but I don't think that's correct scoring.

If only some of these whack judges had to explain their scorecards this thoroughly after the fight... then we'd see more accurate scoring.

[cold]

Kenny Weldon- A Truly Great Boxing Trainer

Sergei was so focused on and so within that instinct to “give” just as good as he gets, that it could have gotten him knocked out and Weldon knew it. His words were forceful and important, “The next time I find your back on the ropes, I’ll hit you with the damn stool,” and “IF YOU STAND IN FRONT OF THIS MAN, YOU WILL GET KNOCKED OUT.” It was unbelievable to see Weldon echo the thoughts many of us had, sitting at home (and not thinking on a fighter’s instinct) and clearly seeing what Brewster wanted.


Having outlasted offensive firestorms in three of his last four fights, WBO champion Lamon Brewster discovered a storm on his Doppler radar Saturday night at the Wolstein Center that he could not weather to pull out a win.


In a Showtime main event, challenger Sergei Liakhovich landed scores of counterpunches and offensive attacks on the champ, who again seemed to be waiting for just one chance to land his giant left hook to keep him in the WBO’s cat-bird seat. The Belarussian unseated him though, earning a unanimous decision in a surprising show of conditioning, superior technique and an approach that can only be described as attack-dog. Where Brewster would stick a toe in the hot bath water of Liakhovich’s offensive onslaught, the “White Wolf” showed himself again and again to be completely undaunted by what could have been very dangerous waters.

“We knew we were getting one shot (at the heavyweight title),” said Kenny Weldon, Liakhovich’s trainer, “and we prepared like that was all we were going to get.

“Sergei fought a really smart fight tonight – sometimes not so smart, but overall, yes.”

Those mental lapses came for Liakhovich in the fifth round, when he allowed Brewster into the fight before waiting too long to stamp out the fire before the bell rung, and Round seven when the champ dropped him to his knees.

But in the interim, the Belarussian controlled the fight like he had a leash on it. His confidence grew visibly from the second round on, as he found success in his counterpunches and turned that to his advantage on the attack.

By the fourth round, the “White Wolf” had the crowd howling for Brewster to “get busy” rather than holding back. But to no avail. When the champ did venture forth, Liakhovich was there to meet him. By mid-fight, Brewster had again backed himself into a position of having to play catch-up to even have a prayer of winning. But the challenger took no rounds off, kept marching forward and laid into Brewster as if his life depended on it.

For a guy who was a serious underdog coming into this fight – a guy who had considered quitting because he’d been out of the ring for so long – losing only two rounds to Brewster’s power and experience was more than remarkable. Depending on which judge you ask, Brewster won either two, four or five rounds. Two, yes, and with conviction; but more than that would be a gift of unwarranted generosity. But the champ didn’t give it up so much as Liakhovich took it.

And the judges agreed, scoring the fight 117-110, 115-112 and 115-113 for Liakhovich.

“Liakhovich deserved to win – he earned it. I take my hat off to him,” Brewster said after the fight, before he was taken to a local hospital for observation.

The champ got some good licks in. He stunned Liakhovich a couple times, and in the end could never be called “out of this fight,” but inevitably, Brewster let his chances to go for the throat escape his grasp. It was a scenario that seemed almost inevitable given the sc****s he’s gotten into in other title defenses before pulling wins out of his back pocket. He grew weary Saturday night or he simply backed out when presented with opportunities to strike, while the challenger saw his chances and took them.

Liakhovich didn’t send Brewster to the canvas – seemingly only a wrecking ball could do that – but he staggered him again and again. At least once, in the sixth round, the ref could justifiably have given Brewster a standing count after Liakhovich had his prey trapped against the ropes and was pummeling him with impunity. Twice the champ, looking distinctly wobbly, was narrowly saved by the bell. And it was the champ, not the challenger, who exited the ring with his face battered and bloodied.

“I stayed on my feet in Round nine by sheer will,” said Brewster, whose record drops to 33-3 (29 KOs).

That round saw Liakhovich chasing Brewster from the opening bell, landing his jab to the champ’s right eye at will and rocking him with straight rights and left hooks that sent blood spewing from Brewster’s mouth into the crowd. The Indianapolis native was lucky to get out alive, though he made a show late in the round of being cognizant enough to go on.

Liakhovich, who declared himself nonplussed by Brewster’s power although he attended the post-fight press conference with two black eyes and the look of a man who would fall asleep even amidst all the hubbub, did express surprise after the fight that he hadn’t been able to floor the champ.

“I can’t believe he didn’t go down,” he said. “I didn’t know what else I was going to have to do if all I did wouldn’t put him down.”

Fears that Brewster’s punch totals would drop under the wing of new trainer Buddy McGirt turned out to be unjustified, as the champ waded into the fight ready to tangle and never showed signs of letting up. But he did so one jab at a time rather than stringing together combinations and runs that might have sustained some damage against his seemingly unstoppable foe.

Yet his respectable punch count for the fight isn’t an endorsement of his approach to the bout as a whole. Brewster hasn’t improved his defense, letting his gloves drop numerous times per round when he reached into his jab, and he got clocked enough that one would kinda sorta have to think he’d take a leather cue and wise up. And to be fair to Brewster’s former trainer, Jesse Reid, the champ didn’t come out of his corner smelling blood. He seemed mellow, almost comfortable. Certainly not ready for what awaited him from the opposite side of the ring.

“I’m sorry Lamon lost the title, but we’ll go back to the drawing board,” Buddy McGirt said after the fight. “We’ll be back.”

Liakhovich’s manager, Ivaylo Gotzev, said his man won’t be holding his breath waiting to schedule a rematch.

“Brewster’s a great fighter and deserves a return fight, but maybe he should take a couple months off first,” he said. His fighter, Gotzev insisted, is looking for bigger fish to fry, though he wouldn’t say who he’d like to go after first.

What he would do, though, he said, was to “personally send trucks to the doorsteps of the TV networks and pay the dumping charges after they’re loaded with all the older heavyweights.

“The public needs to see a new generation of heavyweights like Sergei and see for themselves what they’ve been missing.”

[enadeus]

I have great respect for you cold, your a true boxing fan.