Leo Santa Cruz vs Kiko Martinez Thread

[Master]

Leo Santa Cruz vs Kiko Martinez
12 rounds – Featherweight division (for Santa Cruz’s WBA title)

Julio Ceja vs Hugo Ruiz
12 rounds – Junior featherweight division (for Ceja’s WBC title)

[Lineal]

Another fight similar to the Crawford situation where the elite guy is taking on a tough but nonthreatening opponent.

Santa Cruz by KO. He'll just roll over him I think.

Lets hope the rematch between Ceja and Ruiz kicks off where it ended in the first fight. Ceja was down in the 3rd before stopping Ruiz in the 5th. Ruiz was looking in control up to that point. I'm leaning towards Ceja to repeat but I expect both guys to hit the canvas at some point.

[Master]

First fight was the best fight for me last year in terms of comeback after being hurt and knocked down.

[Lineal]

It really was a nice lil mini war.

[Spicoli]

Trying to get up for it and Santa Cruz fan but really wish they'd stop these same time head to head cards. Have to admire his work rate and activity, has rode to 3 division champion in such a short amount of time. If he keeps his head with improved boxing he should do a wide number on Martinez.

[Spicoli]

Good scrap! Martinez totally recouped and buzzed Leo.

[TitoFan]

I caught some of it, but left to watch the Crawford-Lundy fight. I hate these head-to-heads also.

Anyway, super impressed at how Martinez, being much shorter and giving away tons of arm length, made a fight of it. Gave Santa Cruz all he could handle and then some. Bloodied his nose and rocked him pretty good. But in the end it was too much firepower from Leo. Best of the three fights I watched (including both on HBO).

[Master]

Why do the TV companies show big fights at the same time? No business sense to do that, they should schedule the fights the following week. Idiots just disrespecting the boxing fans.

[TitoFan]

Why do the TV companies show big fights at the same time? No business sense to do that, they should schedule the fights the following week. Idiots just disrespecting the boxing fans.

Yeah. All it does is piss us off. Drought followed by flooding and then another drought.
Those responsible for this scheduling should be starved for a week.... then force fed through every available orifice.... then starved some more.

[Master]

Why do the TV companies show big fights at the same time? No business sense to do that, they should schedule the fights the following week. Idiots just disrespecting the boxing fans.

Yeah. All it does is piss us off. Drought followed by flooding and then another drought.
Those responsible for this scheduling should be starved for a week.... then force fed through every available orifice.... then starved some more.

I bet it is the same genius that decided to give Floyd a multi million dollar contract for boring the crap out of us for the few years.

[Kirkland Laing]

I'm watching this now. I think Martinez is shot but even so I think Santa Cruz batters Frampton if they fight next. Haven't seen the Frampton fight yet but it sounds like he wasn't very impressive once Quigg got going.

[Lineal]

Martinez made a fight of it for as long as he could. Santa Cruz just held too many advantages.

Hard luck for Ceja. Sure he got caught but he was virtually defenseless without the leg to support him. I would have loved to see this play out. Hopefully a third fight down the line.

[johnsebastianmiran]

When I first saw the Ceja-Ruiz fight I just thought that Ruiz was just on the money at the right time. Ceja was making the classical Joe Louis mistake and finally got caught dropping the left hand after a right which Ceja corrected after he got up. Let us just use the word oops. The fourth round also had him making another correction that cost him earlier with that dropping of the left. He shortened the right and threw straight and threw it straight making his hook hard and brought him closer to Ruiz at the right time without reaching with that looping right which slightly sacrificed his balance and stop eating so many hooks. If he continues next fight with the format he used in the fourth round and makes less mistakes coupled with a little patience so that his right is properly in place defensively we're talking repeat performance.