These always make me laugh.
Sure it's great to see knockouts...but to want for the ref to keep the fight going just so the fans can see it is not cool imo. It'll becool to give the crowd a good fight, but at the end of the day these dudes are doing their job and wanna go home and see their families, and you don't wantanyone getting seriously hurt.
I'm gonna have to say...
[h2]Dawson dominates Johnson in rematch[/h2]
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AP Photo/Fred BeckhamMore often than not it was Glen Johnson that found himself on the receiving end of Chad Dawson's attacks.
A roundup of the past week's notable boxing results from around the world:
[table][tr][th=""]Saturday at Hartford, Conn.[/th] [/tr][tr][td]Light heavyweight[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Records: Dawson, 29-0, 17 KOs; Johnson, 49-13-2, 33 KOs
Chad Dawson W12 Glen Johnson
Wins a vacant interim light heavyweight title
Scores: 117-111, 115-113 (twice)
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Rafael's remark: Dawson continued to roll, showing once again that he is one of the most talented fighters in the world. And with the inactivity of Bernard Hopkins, Dawson also showed that he is the best light heavyweight in the world as he outboxed Johnson fairly easily in a rematch of their April 2008 slugfest. Dawson won that fight but not everybody agreed with the decision. Plenty of folks thought Johnson deserved the nod (or at least a draw), even though the three judges each scored it 116-112. Dawson, 27, won this fight so much more easily against the 40-year-old Johnson, yet, amazingly, judges Michael Pernick and Duane Ford each had it very close. At ringside the prevailing scores were 118-110 or 117-111 for Dawson. There is simply no way on Earth this was a closer fight than their first encounter. At least the right guy won. Even former champ Johnson, who complained bitterly after the first fight and campaigned for a rematch since, couldn't dispute this decision.
Johnson talked about possible retirement after the fight. If that's the case, he can walk away with his head held high. He's a classy fighter and classier person who always gave his best inside the ring. The 2004 fighter of the year was a Cinderella story with his knockout of Roy Jones followed by a win against Antonio Tarver. If Johnson does keep fighting, he'll still be a tough out for anybody in the division. He had hoped to beat Dawson and become the oldest man to win a piece of the light heavyweight title. He entered the fight at 40 years, 319 days, and had he won would have bested the record held by Bob Fitzsimmons, who was 40 years, 193 days when he did it in 1903. But those 40-year-old legs couldn't carry him to Dawson often enough. Clean punches were rare from Johnson, who was very aggressive but unable to land enough. Dawson kept him off balance by jabbing, moving and throwing a nice straight left hand. As talented as Dawson is, he is simply not a crowd pleaser. He doesn't have to get knockouts, but you'd like to see him take a chance or two. He never seemed to throw any punches with real conviction, which is perhaps one of the reasons he has not become a draw. Even fighting in his home area didn't help as just 5,230 turned out to the cavernous XL Center, which seats more than 16,000.
Dawson picked up an interim title, one that was completely unnecessary because full titleholder Jean Pascal of Canada is uninjured and active, having just made a mandatory defense. But what it does is set up a possible fight between Pascal and Dawson. If Pascal wins his Dec. 11 rematch with Adrian Diaconu, his next defense is supposed to be against Dawson early next year. The Dawson camp is interested in the fight and you'd think HBO, which has sunk millions into Dawson's last two fights, would be interested in finally having Dawson face somebody younger than 40 after consecutive fights against Johnson and Tarver. Dawson, for one, is very anxious to move on after fighting his last four bouts against Johnson and Tarver. So now are we all.
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Junior middleweight[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Records: Angulo, 17-1, 14 KOs; Yorgey, 22-1-1, 10 KOs
Alfredo Angulo KO3 Harry Joe Yorgey
Wins a vacant interim junior middleweight title
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Rafael's remark: First things first: That was spectacular. Last time Angulo was on HBO, he stepped way up in class and lost a spirited, competitive decision to Kermit Cintron in May. Angulo returned to action in August to knock out Gabriel Rosado on ESPN2 and earn a return invitation to HBO. Granted, Yorgey isn't in the same league as Cintron, but Angulo ran roughshod over him in impressive fashion to claim an interim belt that was stripped from Paul Williams without the disgusting WBO even notifying him of the move. Nonetheless, Mexico's Angulo now has the strap, which means he's supposed to eventually face titlist Sergei Dzindziruk, the inactive titleholder in a beef with his German promoter, Universum.
Forget about the title nonsense for the moment. Angulo stole the show with his savage performance. Yorgey, 31, of Bridgeport, Pa., who was coming off a ninth-round upset knockout of Ronald Hearns in March, did a nice job of boxing and moving on Angulo to win the first round. But then the everything came apart when Angulo, 27, a 2004 Mexican Olympian, clobbered him with a right hand. He never really recovered from the shot, eventually going down under a hail of punches. Angulo, however, hit him twice while he was down and wasn't so much as warned for the infraction that could have gotten him disqualified. But referee John Callas was absolutely inept in the fight. It was one of the single worst refereeing jobs one could possibly imagine. He missed the blows while Yorgey was down. Moments later, he broke the fighters for absolutely no reason when Yorgey was again in big trouble and allowed the fighters to stand in corners. In the second round, Angulo was punishing Yorgey again, hammering him with repeated blows that forced him to grab on to Angulo before falling to the canvas. But Callas didn't call the obvious knockdown. Then he let Yorgey take even more serious punishment right up until the time Angulo blasted him with a left and right that knocked Yorgey out cold before he even hit the canvas. That's when Callas finally got the hint that the fight was over. Yorgey could have gotten seriously injured because of a very brave referee. During the assault, Yorgey trainer Jack Loew tried to stop the fight, but a Connecticut inspector blocked him from going onto the ring apron to surrender. What a miserable performance from the officials appointed to protect fighters. Angulo looked great, Callas was horrible and Yorgey showed immense heart despite being outgunned.
[/td] [/tr][/table] [table][tr][th=""]Saturday at Nuremberg, Germany[/th] [/tr][tr][td]Heavyweight[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Records: Haye, 23-1, 21 KOs; Valuev, 50-2, 34 KOs
David Haye W12 Nikolai Valuev
Wins a heavyweight title
Scores: 116-112 (twice) Haye, 114-114
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Rafael's remark: Haye, the former cruiserweight world champion, barked for months about how he would violently defeat both Klitschko brothers before pulling out of summer title fights with each of them and running. Instead, he accepted a fight with Russia's Valuev, 36, in an effort to grab a belt against the easiest opponent of the three. It paid off with a victory that made Haye the sixth Briton to hold a heavyweight title; the others are Lennox Lewis, Herbie Hide, Henry Akinwande, Frank Bruno and Bob Fitzsimmons.
Haye didn't turn in an exciting or memorable performance, but he got the job done, despite giving up 9 inches in height to the 7-foot Valuev and 98 pounds (216 to 314) in a fight naturally dubbed "David versus Goliath." For Haye to win, he was going to have to rely on his superior athleticism and speed, which is what he did. He moved an awful lot and pot-shotted Valuev whenever he could. Valuev, who is painfully slow, could not catch up to him. His main attribute was his size, but he didn't even use that to push Haye around because he rarely could corner him. Make no mistake: This was not a pleasing fight to watch. It was frustrating, like many of Valuev's fights, because he's so big and lumbering that he can't do much, and his opponents are so freaked out by his size that they have no idea how to get inside against him. It often results in a lot of feinting and staring, and this was no exception. It actually looked a lot like Valuev's previous fight, a controversial majority-decision win against Evander Holyfield 11 months ago. However, Haye, 29, was able to move at a faster pace and throw more combinations as he joined Holyfield as the only other fighter to win the cruiserweight title and then move up to capture a heavyweight crown. Haye was fighting as a heavyweight for only the third time and for the first time since knocking out faded contender Monte Barrett a year ago. Haye said he hurt his right hand in the second or third round, which was why he didn't throw nearly as many right hands as you would expect. However, he did seriously wobble Valuev for the first time in his career with a right-left combination in the 12th round.
Although a fight with either Wladimir or Vitali Klitschko would be the biggest heavyweight fight in the sport, Haye is obligated to make a mandatory defense next against John Ruiz, who stepped aside to allow the fight with Valuev to take place and preserved his position by winning on the undercard. They could meet in England in the spring. If Haye survives that fight and the Klitschkos win their next bouts, it's a fight that conceivably could happen later in 2010 -- unless, of course, Haye bails out again.
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Heavyweight[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Records: Ruiz, 44-8-1, 30 KOs; Serin, 19-11-1, 7 KOs
John Ruiz TKO7 Adnan Serin
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Rafael's remark: Former two-time heavyweight titleholder Ruiz hadn't fought since losing a controversial split decision to Nikolai Valuev for a vacant title in August 2008. Because of the controversy, the WBA kept Ruiz as its mandatory challenger. When Valuev wanted to defend the title against David Haye in the main event, Ruiz, 37, had to agree to step aside to allow it to happen, but with certain guarantees. One was a spot on the undercard and the other was the guarantee that the winner of the main event would make his first defense against Ruiz by May as long as Ruiz won. Ruiz did win, and easily. And he did it largely without the horrible grabbing, mauling, unwatchable style that has become his trademark. As Ruiz fights go, this was watchable. He was more aggressive than usual as he hammered Germany's Serin, 34, all over the ring with ease. Despite suffering a head-butt-induced cut near the corner of his left eye in the fourth round, Ruiz, who had trainer Miguel Diaz in his corner for the first time, won every round. He buckled Serin with body shots in the sixth round. In the seventh, a series of right hands knocked Serin into the ropes, which held him up, and referee Josef Temml ruled it a knockdown. Two more hard rights from Ruiz during the follow-up attack prompted Serin's corner to throw in the towel, setting up Ruiz for yet another title fight against Haye. Serin lost his third consecutive fight.
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Cruiserweight[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Records: Frenkel, 21-0, 17 KOs; Davis, 24-11-3, 17 KOs
Alexander Frenkel TKO1 Kelvin Davis
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Rafael's remark: Frenkel, 24, a prospect born in Ukraine but living in Germany, easily blew out faded former titlist Davis in an impressive display. Frenkel established his jab immediately and then got Davis in trouble with two hard right hands. By the end of the fight, which ended with 53 seconds to go in the opening round, Frenkel had hammered Davis, landing most of approximately 30 unanswered shots before referee Ingo Barrabas stepped in. Frenkel looks like a guy to keep an eye on. Davis, 31, fell to 0-7-1 in his last eight bouts. He briefly held a cruiserweight belt, winning a vacant strap via eighth-round knockout of Ezra Sellers in May 2004, but he never defended it, getting stripped for inactivity. Now, he's simply an opponent with a tad bit of name recognition.
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Heavyweight[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Records: Liakhovich, 24-3, 15 KOs; Bates, 22-17-1, 18 KOs
Sergei Liakhovich TKO1 Jeremy Bates
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Rafael's remark: In 2006, Liakhovich outpointed Lamon Brewster in a sensational slugfest to win a world title. It was all downhill after that. Shannon Briggs knocked him out in the 12th round of his first defense in late 2006 and, after a long layoff, Nikolai Valuev shut him out in a dominant performance in a February 2008 title eliminator. Returning from a 21-month layoff, Liakhovich, 33, of Belarus but living in Arizona, didn't have a chance to shake off much rust because he blitzed Bates in the first round. That's what Bates, 35, is there for as he fell to 1-8 in his last nine and getting knocked out inside three rounds in seven of the losses.
[/td] [/tr][/table] [table][tr][th=""]Saturday at Atlantic City, N.J.[/th] [/tr][tr][td]Welterweight[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Records: Jones, 19-0, 16 KOs; Pinzon, 16-4, 15 KOs
Mike Jones KO5 Raul Pinzon
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Rafael's remark: Philadelphia's Jones, 26, a quality prospect who incredibly has gotten no love from any TV network despite the considerable efforts of promoter Russell Peltz, continued to take care of his business. He knocked out Pinzon, who took the fight on two weeks' notice after Richard Gutierrez withdrew with an injury, with a left to the body. Memo to all those TV executives involved in boxing -- and, yeah, I'm talking to you Ross Greenburg (HBO), Ken Hershman (Showtime) and Doug Loughrey (ESPN): Open your eyes and give the kid a chance. He's more than willing to fight a legitimate opponent. Pinzon, 29, of Colombia, was knocked out for the third consecutive bout, with the other two losses coming to former junior welterweight titlist Ricardo Torres and heralded welterweight prospect Saul Alvarez.
[/td] [/tr][/table] [table][tr][th=""]Friday at Las Vegas[/th] [/tr][tr][td] [/td] [/tr][tr][td]Records: Judah, 38-6, 26 KOs; Hernandez, 22-20-2, 10 KOs
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Rafael's remark: This is what boxing has come to: Judah, a complete non-attraction, headlining an atrocious pay-per-view against a rank journeyman with zero chance to win or even be competitive. Fernando Vargas, the former two-time junior middleweight titlist-turned-promoter is responsible for putting this junk on a pay-per-view that was about as low class as it gets. As for the so-called fight, Judah, 32, the former undisputed welterweight champ and a former two-time junior welterweight titlist, disposed of Hernandez in predictably easy fashion. A jab to the body dumped Hernandez to the canvas in the final seconds of the first round. Thirty-five seconds into the second round the fight was over after Judah landed two rights and a left to the cup (unseen by referee Joe Cortez) that dropped Hernandez for good. It was a crappy fight with one of the weakest knockouts you'll ever see. After the fight, Judah, who weighed 145 pounds and still talks about going all the way back to 140, called out junior welterweight titlist Juan Urango. If that fight is ever made it might be a bit interesting, but nobody is going to knock the door down to see it. Hernandez, 32, of Mexico, dropped his third in a row, fell to 4-12 in his last 16 bouts and was fighting for the first time since late 2007. Forget about the fight being a PPV headliner. How in the world did this mismatch even get approved by the Nevada commission?
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Welterweight[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Records: Casamayor, 37-4-1, 22 KOs; Davis, 11-5-1, 3 KOs
Joel Casamayor W8 Jason Davis
Scores: 79-73 (three times)
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Rafael's remark: Casamayor, a 1992 Cuban Olympic gold medalist, former junior lightweight titlist and former lightweight champion, has had a tremendous career, but he's close to the end and looking for another opportunity. He was facing Davis in an effort to shake off the rust of a long layoff. The 38-year-old hadn't fought since being knocked out in the 11th round and losing the lineal lightweight title to Juan Manuel Marquez in September 2008. The scrappy Davis, 27, of Washington State, gave him good work but it was really a mismatch. Although Casamayor didn't look particularly sharp or fast, he could probably beat somebody like Davis when he's 60 just off muscle memory. Davis landed a few decent left hands and Casamayor didn't look all that into the fight, but he did what he had to do, even though at 146 pounds, he was nine more than he had ever weighed in his career. Casamayor still has a name and reputation and probably can land some kind of notable fight before he's through. Davis lost his fourth in a row, but for comparison's sake, he went the distance with Casamayor while former junior lightweight titlist Steve Forbes knocked him out in two rounds in a March welterweight fight.
[/td] [/tr][/table] [table][tr][th=""]Thursday at Cockeysville, Md.[/th] [/tr][tr][td]Middleweight[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Records: Manfredo Jr., 33-6, 18 KOs; Weaver, 29-19-2, 22 KOs
Peter Manfredo Jr. TKO1 Ronald Weaver
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Rafael's remark: Fighting in the main event of the Fourth Annual Jonathan Ogden Foundation Charity Boxing Event, Manfredo, a former star of the first season of "The Contender," blew out no-hoper Weaver. Manfredo, 28, scored a knockdown late in the first round and Weaver bowed out on his stool after the round. For Manfredo, who once challenged Joe Calzaghe for the super middleweight championship, it was his first fight since signing with TKO Boxing Promotions and his second win in a row since a poor performance in a third-round knockout loss to Sakio Bika in November 2008. Weaver, 35, dropped his fifth in a row and fell to 0-9-2 in his past 11. He hasn't notched a victory since 2002. Time to get a new line of work.
[/td] [/tr][/table] [table][tr][th=""]Wednesday at Jacksonville, N.C.[/th] [/tr][tr][td]Junior lightweight[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Records: Litzau, 26-2, 21 KOs; Edwards, 15-5-1, 8 KOs
Jason Litzau W10 Johnnie Edwards
Scores: 99-91, 98-91, 97-93
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Rafael's remark: As part of ESPN's weeklong tribute to America's military in celebration of Veteran's Day, Litzau and Edwards headlined an ESPN2 special from Marine Corps Air Station New River with military personnel making up the crowd. Loved those shots of the fancy helicopters during the telecast. Litzau, who has made plenty of exciting fights, and Edwards put on a decent scrap (although Edwards did a bit too much holding) with Litzau using his six-inch height advantage to control most of the fight and take the deserved decision. But Litzau, 26, didn't seem to have as much pep in his step as he has always had and started a bit slowly, although he overcame that as the fight moved along. Maybe all the tough fights are catching up with him even though he is still a young man. In any event, he won his third in a row since being banged out in eight rounds challenging Robert Guerrero for a featherweight belt in February 2008. Edwards, 29, a former Marine fighting in his hometown and at his former base, was the crowd favorite, but dropped to 2-4 in his last six.
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Originally Posted by Proshares
If this @+*$ is true Paul gonna have a field day with it
