Comments Thread For: Gassiev Drops Dorticos Three Times For Dramatic KO in Twelfth

[Boxing Logic]

I had it same 4-4 after 8 with 9th real close and even 10th close but little more clear.11th was beginning of end but Dorticos showed a lot heart and deff good power never seen Gass back up that much.That was a real good close fight with some twists.

Giving Dorticos 4 rounds is crazy to me. He came forward the first 4 rounds but almost all his punches were blocked by Gassiev except the left hook to the body and a few jabs in the 3rd and 4th round. But Gassiev was landing hooks to both sides of Dorticos body, as well as the right hook to the head. He was outlanding him almost every round. Maybe you can give Dorticos the 3rd round, one of the 1st/4th if you're generous, but I wouldn't give Dorticos more than 2 rounds in the fight, 3 at best. 4 is pushing it.

[Just looking]

Ok thanks bro

Here man: http://www.boxingscene.com/gassiev-s...ove-up--121684

[Just looking]

What's "the SHW" mean?

Super heavyweights

[Just looking]

Giving Dorticos 4 rounds is crazy to me. He came forward the first 4 rounds but almost all his punches were blocked by Gassiev except the left hook to the body and a few jabs in the 3rd and 4th round. But Gassiev was landing hooks to both sides of Dorticos body, as well as the right hook to the head. He was outlanding him almost every round. Maybe you can give Dorticos the 3rd round, one of the 1st/4th if you're generous, but I wouldn't give Dorticos more than 2 rounds in the fight, 3 at best. 4 is pushing it.

I give Dorticos only rounds 3 and 4. Didn't see him land anything except a jab on the first round

[Chrismart]

I had Dorticos winning 3 rounds.

[Snoop Frog]

Giving Dorticos 4 rounds is crazy to me. He came forward the first 4 rounds but almost all his punches were blocked by Gassiev except the left hook to the body and a few jabs in the 3rd and 4th round. But Gassiev was landing hooks to both sides of Dorticos body, as well as the right hook to the head. He was outlanding him almost every round. Maybe you can give Dorticos the 3rd round, one of the 1st/4th if you're generous, but I wouldn't give Dorticos more than 2 rounds in the fight, 3 at best. 4 is pushing it.

I had it 4-4 after 8, but some of the early ones were tight. My initial thought was to give early rounds to Dorticos for pressing the action, but then I noticed Gassiev was landing the cleaner, harder shots, albeit while mostly on the back foot.

[Snoop Frog]

Amazing fight. Impressed with both guys’ beards. Gassiev is a beast!

[LA_2_Vegas]

Good fight -

Dorticos systematic approach was pretty effective early on. Jab was good all night, body shots were effective...but the right hand was not, it was being deflected and blocked quite a bit. Without that shot it was going to be hard to stop Gassiev from coming forward once he turned on the heat, although they ended up battling for ring position most of the night even after the 6th where Gassiev started to get aggressive- watching them both take the center of the ring and ebb and flow was nice. Quality fight

the ref who gave Dorticos every chance even after multiple hard knockdowns, treated him like a champion and didn't panic and stop the fight. the drama really builds, fight hits a crescendo. not a lot of fights are allowed to build land end like that

[Boxing Logic]

One of the best fights of the last year. The patience and precision of Gassiev is was excellent and indicative of most of the Russian fighters. I anticipate Bivol does the same to Berrera. Sanchez is one of the best trainers alive

Sanchez is good with younger fighters but what about when they hit 30? I'd be curious what happened to his other top boxers after the age of 30. Before the age of 30, the body can handle all the altitude training, and compensate for the lack of O2 in the air during sleep recovery. But after 30, it can't. Gassiev is 24 so he can handle Abel's style of drill sergeant training in high altitude, but GGG has declined drastically the last few years there and it seems like Abel has changed absolutely nothing. Chocolatito and Kovalev also both went up there last year after the age of 30 and both looked worse, especially Kovalev whose stamina went to complete **** despite the whole idea of altitude training being that it's supposed to help your stamina more than anything else.

So I agree Gassiev could have up to 6 really good years left with Abel, maybe 7, if he doesn't take multiple beatings before then, but if he sticks with Abel that whole time, I wouldn't be surprised to see his speed and stamina fall off a cliff after the age of 30 if he's still training like a mad man ripping his muscle fibers during the day in Big Bear, but then sleeping in high altitude where there isn't enough oxygen in the air for the body to repair those muscle fibers, which means the muscles are being destroyed but not fully repaired over time, creating much slower, less precise, less powerful muscles over time. I think that's what's happened to GGG's body, it looks so much worse than it used to, and the same could happen to Gassiev.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Great win for Gassiev. It looked like Dorticos was tailor made for him as the fight went along. Gassiev was just having fun in the there the last few rounds. I liked what I saw. Gassiev may give Usyk a dam good fight, which I hope for, in May.

WAR GASSIEV!