What fight did you watch recently/last night

[Canes Ghost]

Just watched Breland vs Honeyghan and Davis vs Breland.

[1SILVA]

Missed a lot of telecast recently due to the World cup but have been catching up the last few days..........


McCloskey vs G. Lauri

Round 1 McCloskey

Lauri was taking the round but McCloskey
outworked him down the stretch imo

Round 2 McCloskey
McCloskey maintaining distance and having more success,
he also dug some solid hooks to the body

Round 3 Lauri
Lauri most consistent over the round imo

Round 4 McCloskey

McCloskey more active over this round, he landed
the uppercut very effectively

Round 5 McCloskey

McCloskey picked the better shots this round imo,
although it was a closer round

Round 6 McCloskey

Round 7 Lauri

Lauri landed a number of short chopping
shots on the inside, more active

Round 8 Lauri

McCloskey got cut this round, he was taking some solid
shot from Lauri on the inside, Lauri looked the boss
this round

Round 9 McCloskey (close)

McCloskey got more separation this round and picked
some smart counters, the right hook, and the uppercut

Round 10 Lauri 10/8
McCloskey had a point taken for leaning in with his
head

Round 11 Lauri starting hitting McCloskey whilst they
were in a clinch, it seemed to anger McCloskey who stepped in
after the ref broke them and knocked him out with a
hook

Dont know why McCloskey languished on the inside so much,
he could of made this fight much easier had he maintained
and dictated distance, kept some separation, he did
show he could fight inside, although he did get hit with a
lot of these short choppy hook right hands inside.

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Fight Night Club - 6-24-2010

Jamie Kavanagh vs Luis Sanchez

Round 1 Kavanagh
Round 2 Kavanagh
Round 3 Kavanagh
Round 4 Kavanagh

Kavanagh is a patient aggressive fighter who uses
lots of upperbodymovement, might be a bit open
to right hands but he looked a decent prospect without
being exceptional, he can also move and use his legs,
kinda reminds me of Frankie Gavin the way he
uses his legs.

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Jesse Vargas vs Ernesto Zavala

Round 1 Vargas 10/8
Round 2Vargas
Round 3Vargas
Round 4 Zavala
Round 5 Zavala
Round 6 Vargas pins Zavala on the ropes and
forces the stoppage

Jesse Vargas is probably a better prospect than he
looked, he seem to do too much laying inside
giving up his range falling inside because he scored
a KD so early in the fight, he likes fighting in-tight, its worth pointing out
that he did seem to be blowing a bit in the fight, Zavala did
land some solid body shots on him, he does have a
nice in-close uppercut

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Gary Russell Jr vs Rodrigo Aranda

Round 1 Russell Jr
Round 2 Russell Jr drops him with a body shot
and the ref calls it off

Excellent prospect, very nice use of the jab that he
uses consistently to dictate and control distance, very
quick to, however i already knew that having seen
him in the U.S boxoffs

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Frankie Gomez vs Jaimie Orrantia

Round 1Gomez
Round 2 ref waved it off a bit too quick imo, hard
to tell how good Gomez is as we did not get to see
enough of him, although he is a highly touted prospect
who is a decorated amateur


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Roberto Reyes vs Clint Coronel

Round 1 Roberto Reyes
Round 2 fight stopped on an accidental head butt

Roberto Reyes is a long range Boxer, bout all i could say


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ESPN Friday Night Fights

Jerson Ravelo vs Maxim Vlasov


Round 1 Maxim Vlasov
Round 2 Maxim Vlasov
Round 3 brutal big right hand that dropped
Ravelo on his face.

Jerson Ravelo fights scared, goes back on the line,
which leaves him open to right hands, he also has a
tendency to move one way, to the left. Maxim Vlasov
a bit wreckless, a bit overly aggressive

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Jonte Willis vs Leo Bercier


Round 1 Jonte Willis
Round 2 Jonte Willis
Round 3 Jonte Willis 10/8
Round 4 Jonte Willis

Jonte Willis tries to look slick like Toney but he just looks sloppy,
he throws arms punches that seem to lack power, he did land
some classy counter uppercuts but he is not smart fighting the
style he tries to employ, although he seems to think he is

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Jhon Berrio vs Sherzod Husanov

Round 1 Husanov
Round 2 Husanov
Round 3 Jhon Berrio
Round 4 Jhon Berrio
Round 5 Jhon Berrio (either way)
Round 6 Jhon Berrio (Husanov landed better punches but inactive)
Round 7 Husanov
Round 8 Husanov
Round 9 Husanov
Round 10 Husanov

Poor fight technically, lots of scrappy exchanges, Husanov completely switched
off after round 2, although he came alive in again in the second half of the fight, not
a particularly impressive prospect, i was asking myself, where on earth is the jab?
I might have been kind to Berrio in a couple of rounds, he was throwing a lot but
not all of it was landing, that said, Husanov, whilst landing the cleaner punches, was
far too inactive in some of those rounds.

May 1980: Leo Randolph-Ricardo Cardona. WBA Jr. Featherweight Title.

Cardona had a 4-5 inch height advantage over the 1976 Gold medalist Randolph. Instead of using his excellent jab to keep Randolph at bay, he decided to slug with Randolph. This resulted in a great fight, as Randolph and Cardona went toe-toe for 15 rounds and the first clinch didn't occur until the 15th round. In the 5th round, Cardona dropped Randoplh with a sizzling right cross, but was unable to finish him. After recovering from the knockdown, Randolph dominated the fight. landing combinations at will. In the 15th, after landing about 30 punches in a row with no answer, the ref finally halted the fight, making Randolph the 3rd Olympian from the 76 team to win a world title(Leon Spinks and SRL were the first 2). Cardona collapsed and as the television broadcast ended, Cardona was still lying on the canvas.

[Dan Vida]

Over the last three nights Ive watched pernell whitaker vs greg haugen,meldrick taylor vs terry norris,nigel benn vs michael watson and audley harrison vs michael sprott 1 and 2

[nick_shela318]

I just Rewatched Cotto-Margarito. What a fight!!! Too bad Tony probably had hand wraps on lol...

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magri vs mercedes
magri vs sot chitalada
magri vs cherchi II
magri vs mckenzie
olivares vs chacon II

[blaze778]

Barrera-Morales 1

Holyfield-Mercer

[derekg89]

Been watching old dvds of Sugar Ray Robinson recently... lightyears ahead of his time so he was!

[blaze778]

Ali-Shavers

Foreman-Frazier II

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hagler vs mugabi
m.spinks vs qawi

[HaglerSteelChin]

Too bad, i haven't seen too many classic fights recently as i have to keep up with recent stuff for my own boxing site and also regular work hours gives me less time for those great 15 round classics.

Most recent classic fights saw:

Arguello vs. Mancini-very fitting it was on Halloween back in 1981. Mancini was undefeated at the time and gave a game challenge. Arguello has said in interviews he thought it should have been stopped earlier.

Canzoneri vs Berg 1- short but sweet fight.

Bob Fitzsimmons- excerpts of his fights with Corbett and Lang.

Schmeling vs. Sharkey 1- controversial DQ, some thought Sharkey was winning until the low blow, some thought he faked it with his people carrying him to his corner like a baby after the low blow.