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As I posted above I'm not going to cover or watch the fight tonight. If someone would care to post updates & results it would be much appreciated.
As usual, please keep all discussion of this card to this thread. Redundant threads will be deleted.
thanks,
GorDoom
yeah...i'll be here.....
greg
round one pacman-velasquez.....who both came into the ring at jr. welter...140.
velasquez...eager as hell wins the 1st with right hand. pacman looks a little surprised so far.
two.....pacman ...more assertive takes the 2nd....staggers vel with left...too tough for a tune up...
three....pacman settles in and takes the third...vel still dangerous
four...closer round...vel took some good shots and fought back well...pacman narrowly takes rnd.......
five...outboxed in the first half rnd pac starts employing a good left underneath to win rnd..
<img border=0 src="http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/news/archives/VelasquezSlugsClose.jpg" />
For those lacking for visuals, this is Velasquez when he last fought--and won--in Chicago.
Regards,
Juan C. Ayllon
six...vel wobbled badly by right hook with 45 secs. to go dropped at bell...fight stopped...pacman got rolling in this round and was impressive in ability to get a dead game mexican out of there...
was impressed with pacman tonite however the only thing velasquez is equal to eric morales in is heart....if manny can hurt you and go on attack he is ferocious but even velasquez showed tonite that manny can still get a little confused in there...so far i still think morales will win again...but first....zahir raheem....
greg
round one morales-raheem.......morales 138...raheem 140....
felt each other out 1st. half...raheem lands enough to take round in 2nd half...
two.....so far raheem is here to fight....out quicks morales and lands a good lead right
three....raheem again...eric needs to slow this guy down...landed one good right to body that seemed to stop rah but that was it...
four...closer but rnd. still goes to raheem. morales off target and raheem fighting cagily....
five.....rah starting to hurt eric...this is real danger territory now...morales knocked back by right hand...
six.... ring wetness makes sloppy round...raheem loses footing ...morales takes rnd. body shots work for him...needs more..
seven....raheem seems to be slowing and morales takes rnd...the right to the body is the key for morales ...
seven... raheem boxes well punctuates rnd. with right hand...looks bad for morales...raheem too quick..
eight...morales takes rnd at end....getting into ko country...somebody from promotions better go to a blow dart...
nine...raheem all the way..ends rnd with a hard left hook catching eric flush....eric looks out of it from here...
10th all raheem
11th...morales desperate wins round nearly floors raheem at end...here we go.
Thanks for the updates, guys!
I was able to catch a lot of it on the big screen, and from what I saw Zahir won that fight from Philly to Tijuana.
I heard the post-fight interviews: and Erik cemented himself as a very poor sportsman once again.
He said Zahir wouldn't fight him.
Huh??
Erik was beaten thoroughly and really beaten up. I am going to watch the tape later without interruption and score it.
Thanks again, fellas!
Karl
I was flipping between the OSU/UT game in a classic UT pulled out in the end. It was the first time the two storied programs had ever met on the field.
Pac performed like I expected. He didn't come as quick out the gate and still has a problem with getting his delicate scar tissue mixed up with the other fighter's head, but he has a very underrated right hand and free flowing style when he gets going. I was unclear if Velazquez stopped himself or the ref made the decision. Regardless Manny was landing good shots and in his groove.
Morales seemed out of sync from the start. I expected Raheem to maybe take the first 2 rounds, but I figured he'd start to collapse once Morales found the range.
Raheem improved on his style from the Juarez bout where he was lucky to survive the early rounds. He hung in the pocket and threw more solid punches instead of the popcorn he offered up Juarez. He seems to have shaky legs though and was hurt in the bout. The fact that he is always slipping the 2X I have seen him does not bode well for a long stay at the top.
Morales has been fading with the wars he's been in, but I figured him to just walk down Raheem, which he tried to do later in the fight. He reminded me of how Hagler made a mistake in trying to outbox Duran. Hagler pulled out his fight where he started off with bad strategy, but later could not pull out the Leonard fight.
Morales should have used more pressure. Fightnews mentioned that he was slow. He's never been fast and Raheem was faster as we expected. You just have to pressure a fighter like that, not box him.
I'd like to see Raheem against Chavez who is an active pressure fighter. When is Marquez going to make one of these bouts? He let the big money and big bouts pass him by.
twelve....raheem takes the 12th with accurate shots on a desperate morales......now....get ready for some creative scoring...i give it to raheem big...generously gave morales three rnds.
and the winner is.....zahir raheem...ud. they got it right!
greg
the worse choice of the nite was obviously putting morales in with a slickster at an unacostomed weight.....eric was the lightest fighter on the card tonite and he did not have the strength to overcome a spirited zahir raheem at 138.
there was such a difference in styles between zahir and manny that to gauge what might have been now is almost sensless...i see zahir doing the same thing to manny....but then again zahir may have benifitted from the numerous wars in erics career....eric at the end looked like he lacked that last deep breath at the finish line.....
greg
I kept waiting for Erik to catch him with his hands down. That punch never came, because Erik could not set it up and he did not have the speed to slip a good one in.
Pacquiao does have the speed, but his style is worst than Morales' is, especially against a boxer who fights his best going backward. Marquez proved that.
I'd still go with Manny on his best night against Raheem, but I would not be surprized if Raheem got him like he just did Erik.
Manny will not fight Raheem, that woulden't be real bright.
Morales was trying to outbox
a better boxer then him an he lost
big time , the guys in his corner
should have told him he was fighting
the wrong fight, when something is
not working you try some else
Frank B.
He should not have been on the same card if he did not want to winner of the opposite bout.
The is wide open for Barrera-Pacquaio 2, but I don't think Marco really wants that.
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