Comments Thread For: Robert Easter Wins IBF Gold, Edges Very Tough Richard Commey

[Corelone]

Wow, I thought Haymon's days of embarrassing himself having his fighters get their pants pulled down by other promoters opponents were over, now that he seems to have focused on in-house fights heavily favoring his pets or vacant title fights.

It seems even that may have been a step too far.

Don't get me started, Haymon just jumped to the head of the class and he has a lot of competition. I know there's a lot wrong with Hearn and warren, uncle Bob speaks with a forked tongue, King is old mold, but none of them ever pulled the rug out from under a guy like Haymon did Arroyo. That was the sweetest blow.

[Tom_Cody]

What an awesome fight.

[Corelone]

Easter should've been able to finish him off in the 12th. But for some reason he kept running into a clinch and allowed Commey to tie him up and survive. He's obviously talented but he needs to fight smarter.

I think that right hand had him leery of jabbing, but he didn't throw anything. I saw that too.

[TheWinners]

Commey won that ****ing fight. One judge had it sealed for Easter. Other had it sealed for Commey and other had it a draw going into the 12th. I think Commey landed more telling blows and hurt Easter. His jab was ineffective most of the fight. And Commey landed strong right hands the whole fight. Even started throwing the overhand. Pbc with another gift to its fighters. No underdog can win a close fight on pbc.

[PunchyPotorff]

Very close fight, 2 tough fighters, especially Commey. I thought he was the tougher of the two and landed the best punches, except for that one Easter clocked him with round 12. A rematch would be great.

[BrometheusBob.]

bolded explains it all!

Was that the judge who scored it 115-112? Given that the KD took a point away from Easter JR, that means the judge scored it 116-112 w/o that which means 8-4.

[Russian Crushin]

Terrific fight. Commey can be a pretty good fighter with proper training. He's fairly raw but has a lot of room for improvement

[glenn mcrory]

Don't get me started, Haymon just jumped to the head of the class and he has a lot of competition. I know there's a lot wrong with Hearn and warren, uncle Bob speaks with a forked tongue, King is old mold, but none of them ever pulled the rug out from under a guy like Haymon did Arroyo. That was the sweetest blow.

The Arroyo thing was messed up as hell. Like seriously no bid like at all?
20K?
It reminds me of the Jonathan Oquendo thing when he was trying to run away from Haymon to go sign with Golden Boy but was stopped and brought back and fed to Cuellar.
Sure, he made Cuellar look like **** and IMO lowered Cuellars stock, but hes still in a position where his promoter was obviously not concerned with his well-being.
When two Haymon fighters fight people say its two Haymon guys like he doesnt have his favorites and makes sure they get the win even if they have to cheat for it.
Its good for his pets, not for his "other" guys.

[Mr. Punch-Out!!]

I thought it was either a draw or Commey won. Great fight, though.

yep, this outdid thurman / porter by a good margin.

this fight was like reading a self-help book.

Nah, I say it's pretty much on par with Thurman/Porter.

[My Low Place]

Robbery. Easter Jr landed three telling punches in the entire fight, 90% of his jabs missed. Robbery.

give stevie wonder his eye back bro..