Comments Thread For: Oscar Rivas vs. Sylvera Louis in Play For March 16 in Quebec

[joe strong]

Neither Whyte or rivas, should be in top 10. I'd fancy rivas in a rematch, ultimately he was too small for heavy weight, which is probably why Whyte chose to fight him.

Rivas is 245-250. He needs to drop 20lbs to fight for that joke bridgeweight belt.
Only 6’0 but not a small man at all

[JakeTheBoxer]

Rivas should move down, pick that joke belt and use it as a stepping stone to get Fury fight.

[mlac]

That’s what i thought but what i don’t get is why not Simon Kean? Rivas has 2 names on his resume. Jennings & Whyte. Jennings was ahead on all cards until the 12th rd stoppage similar to Froch stopping Taylor. Rivas pretty much has lost most rounds in his step up fights. Kean avenged the Carman upset but that hurts his rep for sure. This would be a decent fight to make. Kean is in the top 50 i think so it is a lot better than fighting Louis...

No he wasnt, he was ahead on 1 card, which was bizarre considering Rivas was winning handidly. I remember as i had lumped on rivas as the dog.

[Jkp]

Rivas is 245-250. He needs to drop 20lbs to fight for that joke bridgeweight belt.
Only 6’0 but not a small man at all

Unless he can fight like Mike Tyson, that's way too short for heavy weight.

Exactly why Whyte chose to fight this nobody, instead of fighting any one of the genuine top 10s calling him out at the time.

[joe strong]

No he wasnt, he was ahead on 1 card, which was bizarre considering Rivas was winning handidly. I remember as i had lumped on rivas as the dog.

I had Jennings ahead myself & you are right Rivas was up on 2 cards. I thought Jennings control the fight but I guess the judges didn’t see it that way. I can’t remember what i had it at but I had Jennings winning by a few rounds. Here are the overall punch stats...
For the fight, Rivas landed just 80 of 434 (18%) of his total punches, and 45 of 152 (30%) of his power punches. Jennings out-landed him, connecting on 113 of 455 (25%) of his total punches and 60 of 195 (31%) of his power shots.

[gspm23]

That’s what i thought but what i don’t get is why not Simon Kean? Rivas has 2 names on his resume. Jennings & Whyte. Jennings was ahead on all cards until the 12th rd stoppage similar to Froch stopping Taylor. Rivas pretty much has lost most rounds in his step up fights. Kean avenged the Carman upset but that hurts his rep for sure. This would be a decent fight to make. Kean is in the top 50 i think so it is a lot better than fighting Louis...

Not true at all ;
Rivas was actually ahead on 2 of 3 scorecards ;
106-103
105-104
103-106

[joe strong]

Not true at all ;
Rivas was actually ahead on 2 of 3 scorecards ;
106-103
105-104
103-106

Yes I had already realized my mistake on another post but i did have Jennings up by a few rounds on my personal scorecard

[gspm23]

Yes I had already realized my mistake on another post but i did have Jennings up by a few rounds on my personal scorecard

My bad !
Yeah it was a close fight. Rivas has such short arms, not easy for him against guy who have over 80" inch reach.