All Things Boxing

[StillUnknown]

i'm just hoping Jim Lampley gets a sore throat and can't commentate tonight

he is as biased as any commentator i've ever seen (especially when Cotto & De La Hoya fight)

[Soup]

i'm just hoping Jim Lampley gets a sore throat and can't commentate tonight

he is as biased as any commentator i've ever seen (especially when Cotto & De La Hoya fight)

I hate him and Larry Merchant.

Have you listened to some of the crap Larry talks about? I remember he went on a 4 minute bit talking about clouds and water and not even talking about the fight. I just turn the volume down and yell at the TV with my friends.

Can't wait for tonight

[StillUnknown]

great fight, close fight

i scored it 114-113 for Clottey

official scores are 116-111 for Cotto, 114-113 for Clottey, & 115-112 for Cotto

i want to see a rematch. close fight, but i thought Clottey won the fight. the flash knockdown at the end of round 1 definitely helped Cotto


116-111 for Cotto is bull**** no way the fight was that far apart

[Soup]

Great fight cotto won so don't kid yourself with the one point win for clottey. Cotto knocked him in the first round and Clottey had a chance to win in the 11th and 12th round but didn't do anything. You can't fault cotto for taking the 11th and 12th round from clottey because clottey didn't do anything to win those rounds. This has rematch written all over it.

[WALEOVECHKIN]

116-111 is one of the worst scorecards I have ever seen for a professional boxing match. That is terrible...

[StillUnknown]

Great fight cotto won so don't kid yourself with the one point win for clottey. Cotto knocked him in the first round and Clottey had a chance to win in the 11th and 12th round but didn't do anything. You can't fault cotto for taking the 11th and 12th round from clottey because clottey didn't do anything to win those rounds. This has rematch written all over it.

i scored the 11th for Clottey actually on my card

cotto was moving back for most of the 2nd half of that fight

i'm not arguing against the decision because like i said, it was a close fight. i can understand why it was scored for Cotto, i just don't agree with it

[eagleskins]

Clottey won. Horrible decision.

[THE OUTSIDER]

I thought Clotty won, but he really can't complain because he did very little in the last 3 rounds.

In other news. What an embarrassment for MMA. Ray Mercer who's way past his prime destroys Tim Silva in seconds.

[StillUnknown]

I thought Clotty won, but he really can't complain because he did very little in the last 3 rounds.

In other news. What an embarrassment for MMA. Ray Mercer who's way past his prime destroys Tim Silva in seconds.

Tim Sylvia is the Nicolai Valuev of MMA

Mercer was also choked out by KIMBO SLICE, not exactly a shining moment for boxing

[THE OUTSIDER]

Tim Sylvia is the Nicolai Valuev of MMA

Mercer was also choked out by KIMBO SLICE, not exactly a shining moment for boxing

Considering Mercer was/is a hasbeen and this was a MMA match, I don't see this as a blackeye for boxing. IMO, Kimbo or any MMA fighter should beat a boxer in an MMA style fight.

[StillUnknown]

Considering Mercer was/is a hasbeen and this was a MMA match, I don't see this as a blackeye for boxing. IMO, Kimbo or any MMA fighter should beat a boxer in an MMA style fight.

Kimbo has no skills outside of brawling. its not like Mercer got beat by an established mma fighter, he got beat by a street fighter

[Chachie]

In other news. What an embarrassment for MMA. Ray Mercer who's way past his prime destroys Tim Silva in seconds.

It is indeed an embarrassment for MMA. No way around it. Sylvia is on a steep decline but should have been able to use height, reach, and kicks to dispatch a 40+ year old Mercer. Sad showing. I answered your post in the MMA thread also, Outsider.

[WALEOVECHKIN]

LAS VEGAS—Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s boxing comeback has been postponed because the boxer suffered a rib injury while training.
Promoters says Sunday that the July 18 fight against Juan Manuel Marquez in Las Vegas will be rescheduled.
Mayweather (39-0, 25 KOs) says in a statement that he had been training hard and was disappointed. Marquez (50-4-1, 37 KOs) says he will remain focused, in shape and ready to fight a rescheduled bout.

Source

[StillUnknown]

damn

probably wont see pbf/pacquiao until early next year

[ibarramedia]

Miguel Cotto overcomes cut, wins split decision against Joshua Clottey
Miguel Cotto gave thousands of his cheering fans exactly what they hoped for on the eve of the national Puerto Rican Day parade.
Overcoming an early cut from an accidental headbutt and several brutal rounds from Joshua Clottey, the popular Cotto fought to a narrow split decision Saturday night inside a packed Madison Square Garden, retaining his WBO welterweight title.
With blood pouring down his face from the third round on, the pride of Caguas and the roughly 800,000 New Yorkers who trace their roots to his island nation threw his arms up at the end of a close and exhilarating bout that left both fighters battered.
Referee Don Trella scored the fight 116-111 and John McKaie 115-112, both for Cotto, while Tom Miller had it 114-113 for Clottey. A mega fight with Pound for pound champion Manny Pacquiao looms next.


That was a tough fight. But that is how I envsioned it... Cotto and Clottey would batter each other and it would come down to a split decision. They are both warriors.