Official 2013 Boxing Thread: Year is over, please lock.

[Kaleo15]

yea, shes a Pac fan there arent any good ricans so she'll root for the top gun in the last decade minus whale root for money may too.



idk Lightweight Champion, his nose WASNT broken. plus he hasnt been stopped in his career. Pac on the other hand, HAS been KOd before JMM 4. even tho it was a long time and many many divisions ago, he has been down and out for the 10 count. nothing new for Pac to get KOd.

agreed Nermindee, i read hes getting an MRI or something for his cheek

Right, yeahhh that'll be the day. She HATES Mayweather

 

[Kaleo15]

Pacquiao was knockedout by body shot when he was a teenager though. His chin holds up. He took shots from light middleweights that didnt make him flinch.

Pac got complacent and overconfident. Marquez was going to get knocked out within the next few rounds the way the fight was going.

literally got a direct hit on the chin the LAST second of the round.

 

[YOUR GRACE]

Pac got complacent and overconfident. Marquez was going to get knocked out within the next few rounds the way the fight was going.

literally got a direct hit on the chin the LAST second of the round.

pac and jmm have history those two pretty much knows each others tendencies and timing. credit to both fighters for giving a great fight. i just dont understand why jmm chose bradley, i guess it goes back to bounce on a high note . that rivalry is over pac 2-1-1

 

[Kaleo15]

He left with a win, a knockout at that. No reason to take a rematch with Pacquiao and risk getting knocked out himself.

 

[GTA 809]

I wouldn't be so quick to give the rivalry to Pac. Officially it's 2-1-1 but Unofficially most have it different.
Add the fact that the rivalry was capped off with a lights out knock out. Dude was literally out for an entire minute and even had me worried about his health. That far outweighs winning by contraversal decision.

 

[you go boy]

as great as a matchup it was with pac and jmm im tired of seeing them fight each just like im tired of american idol... its the same thing over and over again.. at least this last time jmm got a knockout so it somewhat had a twist to it

 

[freakydestroyer]

Am I the only one who suspects they might match Mayweather with the winner of Malignaggi vs Judah? :x

 

[Kaleo15]

Malinaggi vs. Mayweather? I rather watch a turtle race.

 

[immaculate1]

I wouldn't be so quick to give the rivalry to Pac. Officially it's 2-1-1 but Unofficially most have it different.
Add the fact that the rivalry was capped off with a lights out knock out. Dude was literally out for an entire minute and even had me worried about his health. That far outweighs winning by contraversal decision.

Agreed, jmm imo vindicated himself with that ko considering all their other matches were extremely close.

as great as a matchup it was with pac and jmm im tired of seeing them fight each just like im tired of american idol... its the same thing over and over again.. at least this last time jmm got a knockout so it somewhat had a twist to it

That was the exclamation point in the rivalry and jmm had the last word

 

[alp]

Any update on abdusalamov?

 

[threeoneoh]

I agree with ya Immaculate and blackngold1z.
JMM won the series. fights 2 and 3 were a joke. karma is a you know what, look at the Bradley - pac fight and the brutal KO. son had it coming

 

[YOUR GRACE]

officially pac took the series, ask bradley he also officially won lol

 

[proshares]

Wrap up from this past weekend"

Spoiler

A roundup of the past week's notable boxing results from around the world:

Sunday at Tokyo
Shinsuke Yamanaka KO9 Alberto Guevara
Retains a bantamweight title
Records: Yamanaka (20-0-2, 15 KOs); Guevara (18-2-1, 6 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Yamanaka, 31, of Japan, won a vacant belt in November 2011 by stopping quality contender Christian Esquivel in the 11th round and has now made five defenses (the last four by knockout), including notable victories against Vic Darchinyan and Malcolm Tunacao. Guevara, 23, of Mexico, was no pushover, although he dropped to 0-2 in world title bouts. In December 2012, he gave a spirited effort in a decision loss challenging then-bantamweight titlist Leo Santa Cruz.

Early in the eighth round, Yamanaka, a southpaw, decked Guevara with a left hand and had him in retreat thereafter. But Yamanaka was stalking him and landing hard shots, eventually dropping him again in the round with a three-punch combination. Early in the ninth round, a still-shaky Guevara went staggering into the ropes after Yamanaka connected with a long left hand. Yamanaka followed Guevara and measured him for a clean left hand that sent him to his rear end, and referee Hector Afu counted him out 25 seconds into the round. This was a very good performance from Yamanaka, who has a legitimate claim to being the best 118-pound boxer in the world.

Jorge Linares KO1 Francisco Contreras
Lightweight
Records: Linares (35-3, 23 KOs); Contreras (21-4, 16 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Former featherweight and junior lightweight titlist Linares, 28, a Venezuela native who lives in Japan, was supposed to challenge lightweight titlist Richar Abril on this card. However, Abril suffered an ankle injury about a week before the fight and withdrew, leaving Linares to settle for a non-title bout against late substitute Contreras, 29, a native of the Dominican Republic living in New Jersey.

Linares, who won his fourth fight in a row since back-to-back knockout losses to Antonio DeMarco in a lightweight title bout and Sergio Thompson, knocked out Contreras in sensational fashion just a few seconds before the end of the first round when he landed a full-leverage right hand on the mouth. The shot erased Contreras, who went down flat on his back. Referee Toshio Sugiyama completed the count for an official time of 3 minutes, 8 seconds (since you cannot be saved by the bell).

Roman Gonzalez TKO2 Oscar Blanquet
Flyweight
Records: Gonzalez (37-0, 31 KOs); Blanquet (32-7-1, 23 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Gonzalez, 26, of Nicaragua, holds a junior flyweight title but is having increasing trouble making weight and looking for a significant fight. So he was in his third consecutive non-title bout above his usual division as he powered past Blanquet, 28, of Mexico, who dropped his third fight in a row, including having gone the distance with Akira Yaegashi in a flyweight world title bout in August.

Gonzalez went right after Blanquet, attacking him with hard right hands in a fast-paced first round. He hurt Blanquet repeatedly with head shots, finally dropping him with a clean left hook with 30 seconds to go. Gonzalez kept up the pressure in the second round, connecting with two powerful left hooks that snapped Blanquet's head back, causing referee Yuji Fukuchi to stop the fight 27 seconds into the round.

Takahiro Ao KO1 Edgar Lomeli
Lightweight
Records: Ao (25-3-1, 12 KOs); Lomeli (14-4-2, 8 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Ao, 29, of Japan, is a former featherweight and junior lightweight world titleholder. The southpaw lost his junior lightweight belt by decision to Gamaliel Diaz in a major upset 13 months ago. But now he has won two fights in a row at lightweight, both by knockout inside two rounds. Lomeli, 23, of Mexico, showed no chin whatsoever as Ao dropped him for the first time with nothing more than a decent jab with a little less than a minute left in the opening round. Moments later, Ao landed a solid right hand to the side of the head and Lomeli listed to the side and dropped to the mat again in exaggerated fashion, and referee Kazuo Abe counted him out at 3 minutes, 3 seconds.

Saturday at Corpus Christi, Texas
Miguel Angel "Mikey" Garcia KO8 Roman "Rocky" Martinez
Wins a junior lightweight title
Records: Garcia (33-0, 28 KOs); Martinez (27-2-2, 16 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Garcia, 25, of Oxnard, Calif., is an outstanding fighter worthy of consideration for the pound-for-pound top 10 after yet another stellar performance. Fight after fight, he takes his opponents apart, usually with little issue, and he has been doing it against good opposition.

In January, Garcia won a featherweight belt in dominant fashion against Orlando Salido and was due to make his first defense in June against former titlist Juan Manuel Lopez. But Garcia did not make weight and was stripped of the belt. Even though he crushed Lopez the next night in four one-sided rounds, Garcia could not win the vacant title and his days at featherweight had come to a disappointing end. He moved up to junior lightweight and got a mandatory title shot against Martinez, 30, a two-time 130-pound titleholder and the last remaining active titleholder from Puerto Rico.

Fighting in front of an enthusiastic crowd of 5,124 at the American Bank Center, Garcia rolled to an easy knockout victory, despite one rough moment in the second round. That came when Martinez caught him with a perfect counter right hand, knocking Garcia to his rear end, only the second time he had ever been knocked down. It seemed as though Garcia was more embarrassed than hurt and took it to Martinez after that.

Martinez is typically a pressure fighter who always comes forward, but Garcia has good power and he had Martinez covering up and looking to survive. Garcia got through with his shots, however, and was battering Martinez, who was making his third title defense. In the sixth round, Garcia badly rocked Martinez before cutting him over the left eye in the seventh round. In the eighth round, another round Garcia was on his way to winning, he dug a perfectly placed left hook to Martinez's liver, dropping him to his knees. Martinez was basically paralyzed and was counted out by referee Laurence Cole at 56 seconds.

It was a brilliant performance from Garcia, who has a huge future ahead of him, which could include a showdown in early 2014 against interim lightweight titlist Yuriorkis Gamboa, the super fast 2004 Cuban Olympic gold medalist.

Nonito Donaire TKO9 Vic Darchinyan
Featherweight
Records: Donaire (32-2, 21 KOs); Darchinyan (39-6-1, 28 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Donaire, a three-division titleholder (with an interim belt in a fourth division), had a year for the ages in 2012. "The Filipino Flash" rolled to four decisive wins against quality opponents, unifying junior featherweight belts, zooming up the pound-for-pound list and claiming fighter of the year honors. But Donaire, perhaps caught up in his own hype, was not prepared properly when he met Guillermo Rigondeaux in April in another 122-pound unification fight. Although Donaire scored a 10th-round knockdown, Rigondeaux outboxed him and claimed a unanimous decision to hand Donaire his first loss since his second professional fight in 2001. Now, after seeing how Donaire fought in his return from that defeat, you have to wonder if we'll ever see the 2012 version of him again.

Donaire, 30, a native of the Philippines from San Leandro, Calif., first met Darchinyan in 2007 and knocked him out with one punch in the fifth round to win a flyweight title and announce his arrival on the world boxing stage. Donaire went on to huge success after that victory, but Darchinyan, 37, a native of Armenia living in Australia, also had success, moving up to junior bantamweight, where he unified titles and became a dominant champion. But Darchinyan, a southpaw, has had issues when he moved up to bantamweight, losing all three of his title opportunities. Darchinyan rebounded with a pair of wins at junior featherweight and then moved up to featherweight to follow Donaire, who was also moving up in the wake of his loss to Rigondeaux, and they finally met again in a rematch that had been talked about since the first fight.

It was, however, supposed to be easy work for Donaire, who figured to look good against a faded, stationary Darchinyan and get himself back on track after the loss. But nobody told that to Darchinyan, who fought very well while Donaire -- whose father, Nonito Donaire Sr., was back in his corner (this time as an assistant) for the first time in several years following their reconciliation in September -- looked sluggish and tentative. Although both fighters had their moments, Donaire looked like was in some trouble as the fight wore on. Darchinyan was landing nice left hands and knocked Donaire back. After the sixth round, trainer Robert Garcia knew Donaire was falling behind and begged him to throw more punches.

Going into the ninth round it turned out that Donaire was indeed trailing, down 78-74 on two scorecards while the third was 76-76. Donaire, whose best punch is his left hook, landed a sizzler in the ninth round that dropped Darchinyan, who never saw the punch coming, to his knees. Darchinyan survived but his legs were in bad shape and Donaire attacked, eventually landing an overhand left and a left uppercut to do serious damage as referee Laurence Cole jumped in to stop the fight at 2 minutes, 6 seconds. It was a somewhat dramatic victory for Donaire, who salvaged the scheduled 10-round fight when he had to.

Donaire probably will get a featherweight title shot out of this win, potentially against Evgeny Gradovich or Nicholas Walters in early 2014. But to beat those guys Donaire will have to be better than he was against Darchinyan, whose chin betrayed him against his rival once again.

Demetrius Andrade W12 Vanes Martirosyan
Wins a vacant junior middleweight title
Scores: 117-110, 114-113 Andrade, 115-112 Martirosyan
Records: Andrade (20-0, 13 KOs); Martirosyan (33-1-1, 21 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: It is not very common for former U.S. Olympians to fight each other, much less when they are both undefeated and in their first world title bout. But that was the backdrop of this bout between Martirosyan, 27, of Glendale, Calif., a 2004 Olympian, and Andrade, 25, a technical southpaw from Providence, R.I., who was a member of the 2008 squad.

Martirosyan had a chance to earn his way into a world title fight a year ago but wound up fighting to a technical draw with Erislandy Lara in an elimination bout, and he and promoter Top Rank declined to go forward with a rematch. Andrade was due to travel to Kiev, Ukraine, to challenge then-titlist Zaurbek Baysangurov on July 6. But Baysangurov suffered a back injury in training and pulled out of the fight. Since he was going to be sidelined for an extended period, Baysangurov was stripped of the title (as per the terms of the purse bid), which left Andrade to face the next leading available contender, which was Martirosyan.

In a more crowd-pleasing bout than anyone probably expected, Martirosyan got off to a good start when he landed a solid left hook that dropped Andrade to his rear end, the first time he had been down in his career. Besides the knockdown, however, Andrade had dominated the round with his quickness and jab. He continued to do that for most of the fight. He was far busier than Martirosyan, whose left eye was looking bad by the fourth round.

Although Martirosyan came forward, he had a hard time landing many clean blows. Andrade, while not a big hitter, was landing punches, including a series of head shots that seemed to hurt Martirosyan in the sixth round, when Andrade landed 40 punches, 35 of which were power shots, according to CompuBox.

Andrade had the fight well in hand and when it was over he had landed 219 of 769 punches (28 percent) to Martirosyan's 97 connects out of 443 blows (22 percent). Andrade had clearly outworked Martirosyan and landed more punches, and the result did not seem much in doubt until judge Javier Alvarez threw a massive curveball with his stunningly poor 115-112 scorecard for Martirosyan. So Andrade, despite that woeful card, won the split decision and became the first member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic team to win a pro world title.

Nicholas Walters KO4 Alberto Garza
Retains a featherweight title
Records: Walters (23-0, 19 KOs); Garza (25-6-1, 20 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Walters, 27, of Jamaica, won a vacant secondary title (Chris John has the organization's main title) by seventh-round knockout of Daulis Prescott (Breidis Prescott's brother) in December. Walters, known as "the Axe Man," recently signed with Top Rank and was a late addition to the card. But now, after making his first defense against Garza, 28, of Mexico, Walters is in the thick of things in the deep 126-pound division because Top Rank sees him as a potential opponent for any of the cadre of other quality featherweights in its stable, including Nonito Donaire, Evgeny Gradovich, Vasyl Lomachenko and Orlando Salido.

Walters, strong, aggressive and in tip-top condition, did his part to get into that mix with his crowd-pleasing and dominant performance against Garza, who was rocked numerous times in the first round. Walters snapped Garza's head back with a clean right hand and kept up a consistent attack throughout the fight.

In the fourth round, Walters landed a hard right hand below the belt, dropping Garza to all fours. After time to recover, the fight resumed, but briefly as Walters almost immediately hammered Garza with a big right hand to the jaw. Garza fell flat on his back, arms stretched over his head, and referee Mark Calo-Oy immediately waved off the fight at 1 minute, 57 seconds. It was a sensational knockout and should put Walters, who was fighting in the United States for the first time after spending most of his career fighting out of Panama, squarely in the mix for a significant fight.

Oscar Valdez TKO5 Jesus Lule Raya
Featherweight
Records: Valdez (8-0, 7 KOs); Raya (6-7, 1 KO)
Rafael's remarks: Valdez, 22, was a 2012 Mexican Olympian and is one of the brightest prospects in boxing. He showed a versatile attack and poised disposition as he methodically broke down Raya, 29, a Mexico native living in Fort Meyers, Fla., who showed a lot of heart. Valdez boxed circles around Raya, blasted him to the body and kept a stiff jab in his face. It was totally one-sided. The third round was brutal as Valdez teed off on Ray for most of the round. It was a surprise that he stayed on his feet. Ray was throwing punches back but missing everything. In the fifth round, Valdez landed a series of blows, including a right uppercut, and Raya finally went down on his back. He had taken enormous punishment and referee Jon Schorle waved off the fight without a count at 2 minutes, 48 seconds.

Saturday at Lemoore, Calif.
Jose Ramirez TKO1 Erick Hernandez
Junior welterweight
Records: Ramirez (7-0, 5 KOs); Hernandez (4-5-1, 2 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Ramirez, 21, of Avenal, Calif., was a 2012 U.S. Olympian and a very promising professional. This was a big night for him as he was fighting in his home region for the first time as a pro and drew a sold-out crowd of 3,501 to the Golden Eagle Arena, where he turned in a spectacular performance, albeit against an opponent he was supposed to get rid of. Still, he did it in even more sensational fashion than anyone could have predicted, annihilating Hernandez, 22, of Batesville, Ark., in a mere 47 explosive seconds.

Within a few seconds of the opening bell ringing, Ramirez rocked Hernandez with a clean left hook that sent him backward toward to the ropes. Moments later, Ramirez creamed Hernandez with another giant left hook, dropping him to his backside against the ropes. Hernandez got up quickly but was soon down and out as Ramirez hammered him with two more left clean left hooks that dropped him again, this time to his back halfway under the bottom ring rope onto the apron as referee Jack Reiss immediately called off the fight, if you could even call it that. Hernandez never landed a single punch while Ramirez, who had sparred in Las Vegas with former junior lightweight and featherweight titlist Jorge Linares to get ready for the fight, destroyed him, much to the delight of the hometown fans witnessing the first televised boxing event in the Fresno region in about three years.

Saturday at Brooklyn, N.Y.
Gabriel Bracero W10 Dmitriy Salita
Welterweight
Scores: 100-89, 99-90, 97-92
Records: Bracero (23-1, 4 KOs); Salita (35-2-1, 18 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: The higher profile "Battle of Brooklyn" between former world titleholders Zab Judah and Paulie Malignaggi takes place Dec. 7 at the Barclays Center, but this was another battle for New York borough pride between Bracero, 32, and Salita, 31, the Ukraine native who now lives in Brooklyn and a former junior welterweight world title challenger. When Salita challenged Amir Khan for his title in 2009, he suffered his previous loss as he was knocked out in 76 seconds. Salita then won his next five fights in a row against very modest opposition before seeing the winning streak end against Bracero, a better caliber opponent. Bracero dropped Salita with a left hand in the eighth round on his way to the lopsided decision in an action fight in which both men were cut.

Bracero won his fifth fight in a row since his only defeat, an upset 10-round decision loss to former junior welterweight titlist DeMarcus "Chop Chop" Corley in January 2012.

Saturday at Kiev, Ukraine
Vyacheslav Uzelkov TKO6 Jaidon Codrington
Light heavyweight
Records: Uzelkov (30-3, 19 KOs); Codrington (21-4, 17 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Uzelkov, 34, of Ukraine, who lost a decision in a light heavyweight world title fight to Beibut Shumenov in 2007, stopped long-faded New Yorker Codrington (21-4, 17 KOs), 29, in a decent fight. In the sixth round, Uzelkov badly hurt him with a left hook and then pounded him to the mat with a follow-up attack. Codrington barely beat the count, but referee Yuri Koptsev did not like what he saw and waved off the fight with about 30 seconds left in the round.

It's sad to see Codrington still fighting after how brutally he has been knocked out. He just cannot take a solid punch and has been stopped in two of his last three fights (and knocked out in all four of his defeats). Codrington was once a heavily hyped prospect but is best known for his knockout losses to Sakio Bika in "The Contender" final in 2007 and a brutal first-round destruction at the hands of Allan Green in the 2005 knockout of the year. Codrington retired in 2008 but came back in 2010 and then was out again until 2012.
Oleksandr Usyk KO5 Felipe Romero
Cruiserweight
Records: Usyk (1-0, 1 KO); Romero (16-8-1, 11 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Usyk, a 26-year-old southpaw from Ukraine, won the heavyweight Olympic gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics and the 2011 world amateur title and was making his pro debut in front of an adoring hometown crowd, which included heavyweight titlist Vitali Klitschko, his promoter at K2, and fellow Olympic gold medalist, countryman and good friend Vasyl Lomachenko. It came as no surprise that Usyk dished out a lopsided beating. That's the way pro debut of decorated amateurs are supposed to go.

Late in the third round, Usyk scored a knockdown, nailing Romero with a left hand to the gut. In the fifth round, Usyk scored another knockdown, this time dropping him to a knee with a left hand to the head. Romero went down to a knee and his corner immediately threw in a white towel, but referee Viktor Fesechko ignored it and completed the count, by which time one of Romero's cornermen had already come into the ring and over to his man. Nonetheless, Usyk gets a dominant pro debut victory and Romero, 29, of Mexico, dropped his second fight in a row and fourth out of his last five, with each defeat coming by knockout.

 

[captainsneakerhead23]

Any update on abdusalamov?

They said he was still in a coma on life support Saturday night

 

[lightweight champion]

Hope he pulls through soon.

Donaire out til May with an orbital bone injury.

 

[alp]

They said he was still in a coma on life support Saturday night

Hope he pulls through soon.

Donaire out til May with an orbital bone injury.

yea I hope he survives. As has been said before, that fight shouldve been stopped in the 6th

 

[Kaleo15]

Marquez didn't solidify anything with their last fight. He was on the verge of getting knocked out himself.

The table was clearly turning after that 3rd round knockdown. Like I said, it wasn't looking good until that last punch.

Some of tall making it seem like Marquez dominated that 4th fight.

 

[threeoneoh]

Lmao about to get KOd??? Y'all probably said the same damn thing after the first round of fight 1. How'd that turn out for y'all???

 

[krazyrodzilla]

Despite recent reports, Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s camp claims he has yet to choose his next opponent.
For the past few weeks, British media members have been writing breathlessly in their so-called "world exclusives" that Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s next fight in May will be against England's Amir Khan.

In recent days, one publication again declared the fight a done deal, without so much as even citing an unnamed source. There were no quotes, no specifics, no nothing. Just a lot of declarative statements with no sources whatsoever.

Now, there sure is a good chance that Mayweather's next fight will indeed be a welterweight title defense against the chinny former junior welterweight titleholder. But it's simply not a done deal as some have wrongly reported, according to Leonard Ellerbe, Mayweather's adviser.

But why let the facts get in the way of a good story, right?

"How many times have you heard rumors in this business about things being done and it's not even close to the case," Ellerbe said. "It's the nature of the boxing business. I've heard Floyd is fighting Tim Bradley next. I heard a lot of things. We just sit back and laugh. It's hilarious.

"I don't know what we're doing next. Floyd Mayweather is the topic of everyone's conversations. I've heard things from we're fighting Bernard Hopkins to Amir Khan. You hear a lot of things that people say and all you can do is sit back and laugh. But it's great to be in a position where everyone wants to fight the king. He represents the biggest payday for any fighter out there if their number gets called. I can't blame them for speculation or rumors.

"But we haven't had one conversation about any of that [about his next fight]. Floyd is relaxing and enjoying the time off. He is enjoying time with his family and marveling at the record breaking year he has had."

Mayweather, the pound-for-pound king, has had a huge 2013 and is a frontrunner for fighter of the year honors. He defended his welterweight crown in May with a near-shutout of Robert Guerrero in the first fight of his mega deal with Showtime/CBS. In September, he returned to easily outpoint Canelo Alvarez in a junior middleweight unification fight that generated 2.2 million pay-per-views buys (second all time) and set the numerous other records, including the all-time pay-per-view revenue mark of $150 million.

"Floyd is not even thinking about who he is fighting next," Ellerbe said. "He's relaxing. He has had a record-breaking year where he made a sh--load of money and had two phenomenal performances."

So what about the premature and/or wrong stories about Mayweather-Khan being a done deal?

"Everyone knows when it's time to go out and do something they know who it will come from," Ellerbe said. "Floyd determines how, when, where and what he is doing. He is calling all the shots. So until you hear it from Floyd it is what it is -- rumors. We're not even thinking about what's next. We ain't working on nothin'."

 

[alp]

Hes fighting Hopkins next

 

[Kaleo15]

Y'all? Oh I see where this is going now. You not foolin' me kid.

 

[threeoneoh]

I hope he does fight the all 4 fights on his contract

 

[lightweight champion]

I can see the direction where this is headed.

 

[niketalker23]

Marquez didn't solidify anything with their last fight. He was on the verge of getting knocked out himself.

The table was clearly turning after that 3rd round knockdown. Like I said, it wasn't looking good until that last punch.

Some of tall making it seem like Marquez dominated that 4th fight.

The only fight without a * is the fourth one and Manny went night night. That knockout is what will survive time when it's all said and done.

 

[japanair21]

IMO, that Manny fight was still up in the air at the time of the knockout. Yes, Marquez went down. But so did Manny earlier in that fight. Momentum swayed several times, and Marquez ended it more convincingly than any other ending in any of their fights.

Donaire man. I'm not sure about the guy. The last 3 or so fights it just seems like he's head-hunting. When he first beat Vic, I took him as a much better boxer. He has become an one-dimensional power puncher. This Donaire will never beat Rigo. I hope we can see a return to form, but that fight didn't show it at all.

Mikey is a G man. Of all the recent star power we've seen in boxing recently, he is probably the most sound boxer. GGG is an absolute solid boxer, but can be hit and hit damn hard. Ruslan is a brawler who you can also tag at your leisure. Canelo has a ton of talent but has flaws in his game. Peter Quillin has consistently shown that he's not ready and lacks the defense and punching power to really be a stud. Broner isn't bad, but is just a second-rate Mayweather wanna-be.

Other than Danny Garcia, Mikey is probably the most polished of all these guys. It's a shame that Mikey is with HBO. I'd love to see him match up with Abner Mares, Danny Garcia, or Lucas.

I can see Mikey going up to 140 in a few years though, and hopefully guys like Ruslan and Bradley will still be there.