“Fighting Words” – Abraham-Miranda: This Was A Title Fight?

[ProBox1]

If we needed one more reason why the sanctioning bodies are hurting boxing – and we didn’t – then one needs only to have watched Saturday’s middleweight trinket fight between titlist Arthur Abraham and challenger Edison Miranda.

Whereas a title belt – any title belt – holds validity to the dozens of boxers who otherwise would never get a chance to compete at a high level, who would never have a prize that rewards them for their dedication and pride, it also brings attention to events and bouts that otherwise are better off ignored.

It’s absolutely opinion and nowhere near being gospel, but Abraham-Miranda was a prime example of the reversing of a cliché, a fight that should have been heard about and not seen.

Along with the fighters, I blame the first report I read online.

Written by Karl Freitag, he reported that Abraham-Miranda was “a definite fight of the year candidate,” and “an unbelievably vicious fight.” With this weekend’s sole televised offering being Jorge Arce-Hawk Makepula on HBO, I quickly waited for an illicit copy of the bout to appear on the Internet. [details]

[Novirasputin]

I am sorry the writer feels that way, truly.

Part of the reason is IMHO
the expectations he had and the result he knew.


I have watched many so called great fights after the result was certain and i knew all the climax points (Kd's, point deductions, etc.) and of course it kills it.

This is why Corrales Castillo 1 was not as exciting to me as to others or as exciting as Cotto Torres which i saw live on TV.

Watching Abraham Miranda live was unbelievable.

Some have said FotY.

and i could see that from a sense of drama perhas but not action (Mormeck Bell and a telefutura fight i forgot who was fighitng but was my personal pick for best fight of the year and really nothing could top that one)


However i have to disagree with that score
i don't see 113-111 in favor of Miranda

that means you tak on five points and you have 118-111 meaning Miranda won what 9 rounds lost 2 and 1 even?

At the very least he lost 5 clear rounds
1,3,4,8,9
the 5 was questionable because AA really came out looking for the KO and had Miranda reeling again.

The fight was close without the point deductions but those pd's clearly made it for AA>

call it bias that is how i saw it.

[Shot]

I would like to see the scorecard from the writer of this article. I doubt he would be able to defend it.

Yes Miranda was doing a lot of work but was not very effective and landed few clear punches.

[Pantera2000]

Miranda won the fight twice. Once by TKO and than on points.
(this at least would have been the result in the USA or any fair country)

[VanesBoxing]

Moving on to bigger and better things. Miranda was a dirty test for Abraham, and he passed.

Bring on Jermain Taylor, and lets do it in the US so there are no excuses.

[DiegoFuego]

LOL the same thing happened to me. I read about it, then told everybody about this great fight I was downloading. When I watched it, I was like...that's it? This fight was nowhere near a fight of the year or month candidate. It has nothing on Toney vs. Peter. This fight was not classy and looked very embarrassing for both guys, even though Abraham showed a lot of heart. Abraham was just better, end of story. Miranda is a *****.