What fight/fights did you watch today?

[Raging B(_)LL]

Just watched Bobby Boyd take on Jimmy Beecham in their rematch and Neal Rivers, good fights those were. Against Beecham Bobby won the first five rounds in my opinion but then Beecham started to come alive in the 6th and made a good fight of it for the remainder of the bout, rocking Bobby on several occasions.

It was too late by then though and Bobby walked away with a points win in a bruising fight. The Rivers fight though was Boyd all the way, Rivers was just too passive in each round and let Bobby dictate the action from start to finish. The judges gave Boyd every round, and interestingly Boyd had the recently retired Bob Satterfield in his corner for this fight, apparently to help teach him how to get better leverage on his punches.

Boyd is a fun fighter to watch, very offensive minded and a busy guy in the ring. He was tall and rangy and threw good combinations mixing his attack up to both head and body very well. What I especially like about him though and which you see few fighters do today was his desire to punch his way out of a clinch and not wait until the ref stepped in to break it up.

Boyd wouldn`t wait and would be flailing away with both hands to try and get the other guy off of him, and even when he was the one who initiated a clinch he would punch with one arm while tying his man up with the other. His whiskers weren`t particularly sturdy but that just made him all the more fun to watch, it usually was kill or be killed with him, kinda like the man in his corner for the Rivers fight Bob Satterfield.

[Raging B(_)LL]

Watched Rodrigo Valdez L10 Ralph Palladin and L10 Pete Toro, Chico Vejar TKO10 Johnny DeFazio and Walter Cartier KO1 Joe Rindone.

[cardstars]

I found out that Googles videos has fights (I previously was only aware of Youtube).

Thanks for the heads up; I never knew either!

[natonic]

Watched Lupe Pintor - Eijiro Murata (thanks Raging Bull!). Excellent fight. I had it 143-142 Murata, so the official draw wasn't outrageous, but I think Pintor was fortunate to get it. Murata just seemed to want it a little more.

[Raging B(_)LL]

Watched Lupe Pintor - Eijiro Murata (thanks Raging Bull!). Excellent fight. I had it 143-142 Murata, so the official draw wasn't outrageous, but I think Pintor was fortunate to get it. Murata just seemed to want it a little more.

Your welcome pal, good fight wasn`t it? Say, do post your thoughts on the Seabrooks/Jacob fight once you watch it if you haven`t already, that is a true hidden gem of a fight... a real pier sixer from start to finish and the 8th round is one of the wildest most exciting rounds you will ever see.

[natonic]

OK Raging Bull, I did my homework and watched Seabrooks - Jacob. I was ready to score the fight but gave up on that idea halfway through the first round. That is an insane fight! Definitely one of the best fights I've ever seen. I'd seen Seabrooks against Canizales twice and new he was really tough, but this fight was a whole other level of tough. I felt Jacob was winning but Seabrooks just outlasted him. It makes me want to watch Canizales - Seabrooks again. Thanks!

[smoochp]

I watched Vic D vs Gorres that was declared a draw

I also watched Mayweather early 130 lbs career up until Manfredy. So basically every fight until then.

Next week I will watch all the fights I received from acb. Then I will study some fights that Sweet Pea and Benny wanted me to watch

[sweet_scientist]

Watched Lupe Pintor - Eijiro Murata (thanks Raging Bull!). Excellent fight. I had it 143-142 Murata, so the official draw wasn't outrageous, but I think Pintor was fortunate to get it. Murata just seemed to want it a little more.

That was a fantastic fight, and a superb performance from Murata. Great flurries, great energy, great determination. Certainly pushed Pintor all the way and I wouldn't begrudge him the win if he got it, but I had Pintor by a point myself. I am a Pintor fan though, so perhaps I'm a little biased. I did feel though that Murata was a tad fortunate not to be deducted a point for excessively holding. Didn't get a single warning, mind you.

My card: 143-142 Pintor
My round by round:
Murata winning rounds 1,4,6,9,11, 12 and 15.
Pintor winning rounds 2,3,7,8,10,13 and 14 ( 10-8 ).
Round 5 even.

Can't believe Murata came back and won the 15th after the absolute shelacking he took in the 14th. I had to make the 14th a two point round for Pintor.

[natonic]

That was a fantastic fight, and a superb performance from Murata. Great flurries, great energy, great determination. Certainly pushed Pintor all the way and I wouldn't begrudge him the win if he got it, but I had Pintor by a point myself. I am a Pintor fan though, so perhaps I'm a little biased. I did feel though that Murata was a tad fortunate not to be deducted a point for excessively holding. Didn't get a single warning, mind you.

My card: 143-142 Pintor
My round by round:
Murata winning rounds 1,4,6,9,11, 12 and 15.
Pintor winning rounds 2,3,7,8,10,13 and 14 ( 10-8 ).
Round 5 even.

Can't believe Murata came back and won the 15th after the absolute shelacking he took in the 14th. I had to make the 14th a two point round for Pintor.

Yeah, great fight. I was hugely impressed also that Murata took the 15th. I can't find my scorecard (scrap of paper) but it seems we had one swing round in there between cards. The official scores were 144-144, 147-142 (Pintor), and 146-144 (murata), so I think we did a good job scoring and had less even rounds. Poor Murata had a draw with Chandler too. Pretty damn good efforts. Don't get me started on scoring Pintor fights! I score Pintor-Zarate different every time I watch it! Pintor was in lots of close rounds.

[sweet_scientist]

Yeah, great fight. I was hugely impressed also that Murata took the 15th. I can't find my scorecard (scrap of paper) but it seems we had one swing round in there between cards. The official scores were 144-144, 147-142 (Pintor), and 146-144 (murata), so I think we did a good job scoring and had less even rounds. Poor Murata had a draw with Chandler too. Pretty damn good efforts. Don't get me started on scoring Pintor fights! I score Pintor-Zarate different every time I watch it! Pintor was in lots of close rounds.

Haha, yeah Pintor was in some close ones. His second bout with Davilla is a tight one I've scored a few times as well.

Murata sure was a talent. I think he'd be king of the bantams today without too much trouble.

[Mantequilla]

YouTube - Chris Eubank Vs Michael Watson I (Part 1)

First controversial Eubank vs Watson fight.

Very good technical stuff here.I've never had a problem with the decision, though i've never actually bothered to score it.Maybe i should.

[Raging B(_)LL]

OK Raging Bull, I did my homework and watched Seabrooks - Jacob. I was ready to score the fight but gave up on that idea halfway through the first round. That is an insane fight! Definitely one of the best fights I've ever seen. I'd seen Seabrooks against Canizales twice and new he was really tough, but this fight was a whole other level of tough. I felt Jacob was winning but Seabrooks just outlasted him. It makes me want to watch Canizales - Seabrooks again. Thanks!

I told you that was a cracking fight didn`t I? Glad you liked it bud, too bad we don`t see fights like that more often nowadays.

[Raging B(_)LL]

I watched both Gil Turner vs Johnny Saxton fights today, Joe Miceli vs Gene Fullmer and Johnny DeFazio and Tony DeMarco vs Chico Vejar, Chris Chirstensen and the first Virgil Akins fight. The Turner/Saxton bouts were real good, that Saxton sure was a fine boxer and Turner was as strong as a bull, can`t believe he was a welterweight with such a huge upperbody and muscular shoulders and back, he looks like a damn supermiddleweight!

Miceli got sparked by Gene in the second round in brutal fashion, Fullmer knocked his block off with one of the wildest, three stooges overhand rights I have ever seen, but boy oh boy did it land flush on the side of his head and knock him dead, ref coulda counted to one hundred and Joe wouldn`t have gotten up.

As for Tony his KO`s of Vejar and Christensen were brutal, he may have been crude and a wild swinging slugger but you had better be on your game to beat this guy because he would just keep swinging away looking to knock your head into the nosebleed section all night, he`d flatten a guy like Cotto or Berto in short order I reckon.

He did get stopped in brutal fashion by Virgil Akins though, I mean the guy was out cold. He went down three times in the tenth from some heavy shots and Virgil was no slouch when it came to punching power, pillows in his fists he most certainly did not have. Anyway, Tony is lucky to make it out of the round but wouldnt you know it he comes raoring out of the gate the very next round and even dumps Akins onto the seat of his pants in the 12th courtesy of a short left hook for a four count.

Tony finally got subdued by a vicious barrage of blows in the 14th, with his head resting on the bottom rope while he was being counted out. Akins was a mob fighter and had to wear the cuffs in several fights, but against DeMarco the mob guys told him to go for it for services rendered so to speak, he played ball with them so they rewarded him by letting him go all out against Tony even though he was a paisan, guess they didn`t think he was gonna pull it off.

Anyway, didnt matter though as he lost the title to Don Jordan in one of the laziest performances by a chamo I have ever seen. I know Akins had a reputation as a lazy guy in the ring, but the effort against Jordan who he should have flattened was embarassing, although I wouldn`t be surprised to hear he tanked the fight on orders yet again, wouldn`t surprise me at all and would help explain his lethargic performance.

[salsanchezfan]

I watched Azumah Nelson take apart Wilfredo Gomez on youtube today. He was just so much stronger than Gomez, and nothing Gomez landed bothered him at all. He just walked through him.

The Puerto Rican started out boxing on his toes and trying to confuse Nelson, but the distance soon closed and he was pushed back. Gomez stood and punched back bravely in the fifth and sixth, but he was just outgunned.

The final knockdown in the 11th was one of the more dramatic you'll see. Gomez was knocked back on his haunches and hung there momentarily, unconscious, before crumbling onto his back, dead to the world.

This was another fight where Gomez showed his dirty side. He punched low continually, so it was nice to see him beat down so dramatically before his home crowd.

[natonic]

Ken Buchanan - Ismael Laguna II

I had one eye on the fight and one on my laptop so I didn't score the fight. Harold Lederman was one of the judges and had it 10-5 Buchanan. From what I saw, the fight was much closer than that. Anybody score this one? I'm going to re-watch and score it.
It was a great, high paced, high skilled fight though.