Comments Thread For: DiBella: Thurman-Porter Edged Vargas-Salido for Fight of the Year

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NEW YORK Lou DiBella realizes he's splitting hairs. The promoter still thinks Keith Thurman-Shawn Porter took the lead from Francisco Vargas-Orlando Salido for "Fight of the Year." Thurman (27-0, 22 KOs) retained his WBA world welterweight title by earning a unanimous-decision victory over Porter (26-2-1, 16 KOs) in a thoroughly entertaining slugfest Saturday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
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[Redd Foxx]

As much as I loved Salido Vargas, Thurman Porter felt like it had a little more of that edge of your seat excitement, like it could end any second. Salido Vargas was also a tad repetitive, though I feel bad saying that. Loved both fights.

[Bronx2245]

It was a great fight, but not better than Vargas vs. Salido!

[OctoberRed]

Vargas-Salido are brawlers with little boxing ability. That fight was going to be a war from the minute the ink was dry. Thurman, Porter have boxing ability and decided to make it a brawl. They could have stunk the joint out and didn't.

[shawn4943]

No it didn't.

[bojangles1987]

As much as I loved Salido Vargas, Thurman Porter felt like it had a little more of that edge of your seat excitement, like it could end any second. Salido Vargas was also a tad repetitive, though I feel bad saying that. Loved both fights.

Agreed. I loved Salido/Vargas, but there wasn't the presence of danger in the exchanges that Thurman/Porter had. It was also usually clear who was winning the rounds, and no contrast of styles. That especially made a difference, seeing Porter and Thurman battle to determine the flow and style the fight was fought at from round to round, where Salido and Vargas were going out there round after round and butting heads straight on.

[Dean_Razorback]

no. salido vargas was more action packed imo

[Anton Chigurh]

A promoter that works with Al Haymon thinks the Al Haymon fight was better? Who would've thought.

The hood**** said that Vargas vs. Salido lacked knockdowns. Then Thurman vs. Porter lacked knockdowns but they loved it.

The hood**** said that Vargas vs. Salido lacked skill. Then Porter does nothing but bull rush Thurman but they loved it.

The hood**** just love anything that's black, . They pretend to love boring chess matches because that's all the black fighters give them and they s**t on wars between fighters of other ethnicities, but as soon as blacks are in a war they love it. Funny how that works.

[TheCell8]

I didn't find Salido-Vargas particularly entertaining. Power and skill were two ingredients missing from that fight. It was two guys with similar type of power just punching each other in the center of the ring. There wasn't much movement either.

[kidbazooka]

Yea right dibella.

Salido v Vargas was more entertaining and also had higher quality inside fighting.