Kazuto Ioka vacates with talk of retirement

[Alpha]

116-112 Palicte, 118-110 Nietes, 114-114

Spilt draw.

That 2nd card

[Fenster]

Good call mate, you said the cards would be all over the shop half way through, I was expecting mental scores like that too, I actually can see how it happens

[palmerq]

Watching on stupid Shaw hbo delay so not reading posts yet... Nice win for ioka, I think it was a close fight despite the wide scorecards which were probably right. Ioka took a fair few whacks too, it wasn't the best win of all time but he's moved up and been out for a while... The japs are a bunch of sad masochist weirdos it seems, they really don't seem to mind getting hit to land something :S.... Fun to watch but bad for their health... Good work ioka. Hopefully more of the japs come over to the western timezone or hbo can work out some deal to show fights in Japan(that would be cool). I don't ioka is going to become undisputed champ at this weight going by that fight, for example I think sor rungvisai Kos pretty handily.

[Alpha]

Got carried away with the Porter/ Garcia fight.

118-110, 117-111, 117-111

UD Estrada.

[Alpha]

Those cards were terrible, should have been about 115-113 Estrada. Very close fight.

[palmerq]

I think ledermann is/was tanked :S

[palmerq]

I might be swayed by hbo but I thought nietes won that :S.. bit odd but I wasn't keeping count so I can't say for sure

[powerpuncher]

I didn’t score the Nietes fight really, but I was shocked that HBO seemed to think that he won most rounds. There were a handful of rounds I definitely thought that Palicte won. The one scorecard for Palicte seemed pretty ridiculous though.

I thought that Estrada won pretty wide even though the rounds were close. I thought that Estrada just did more most of the rounds to win. I had no problem with the scorecards.

[boxing prospect]

Very impressed by how Ioka looked given the circumstances.

Not sure how there was any talk of a robbery in the Nietes fight, great decision. And I can see how the judges got to those cards... Which were understandably all over the place

[Alpha]

Most have probably seen it by now, but I'll leave it here anyway:



Ioka is in the mix big time now.

[boxing prospect]

Apparently the talk now is for Ioka vs Nietes later this year....
http://www.asianboxing.info/asian-ne...d-for-december

...take my money!

[Alpha]

Easy win for Ioka.

[Alpha]

Ioka vs Nietes.

A very good, close fight to end the year. I had it 115-114 Ioka.

118-110 Nietes, 116-112 Ioka, 116-112 Nietes

SD Nietes

Another terrible 118-110 card tho.