NBC Fight Night: Figueroa Jr- DeMarco and Arreola- Kauffman

This card starts in a few minutes on Nbc sports with undercard bouts and switches to regular NBC at 8PM. They are calling it a marathon card but frankly could end up quantity over quality. Not sure of the line up order but match ups are as follows

Hugo Centeno Jr. 23-0 vs Josue Ovando 14-7-1 Spr Middles

Terrell Gausha 16-0 vs Said El Harrak 12-3-2 Spr Middles

Mario Barrios 13-0 vs Manuel Vides 18-4 Jr. Light

Lanell Bellows 13-0 vs Michael Gbenga

Somewhere the comic relief comes as Victor Ortiz :vd: has another "comeback" vs a jr. lightweight in Gilberto Sanchez Leon....Jr Middles. Call me a premature cynic but whoever approved this set up should be flogged in public and charged with aiding and abetting an assault.

In co main Chris Arreola 36-4-1 meets Travis Kauffman 30-1 and it tops off with Omar Figueroa Jr. 25-0-1 facing Antonio DeMarco 31-5-1 in main event. I read the weights at 150 for both! Figueroa has apparently gone up 3 weight classes over 2 fights as he missed weight limit by 11 lbs. How is this allowed. Its madness. DeMarco starts slow enough AND was talking retirement last time out. Al Haymon should be wearing a bag over his head now that I look at this.

HBO Latino card starts at 9 pm with Sullivan Barrera 16-0 fighting Karo Murat 27-2-1 in Lt hvy title eliminator. Cheers and all that good stuff :beerchug:

Mario Barrios 13-0 vs Manuel Vides 18-4 up first. Barrios is just long everywhere, big frame on him!

Barrios really pouring it on over 3 rounds hurting Vides to body at least twice. Barrios punches off his shoulders, level. He's not shy about taking repeated right hands in return from Vides though. Didn't expect Vides to still be here in 4th

Barrios ends it convincingly with tremendous right uppercut/ left hook in 6th. Vides struggles but cannot beat the count.

Ortiz looks bloated and is in desperate need of a shave. Next up

Sanchez Leon looks like he is wearing some extra large flesh sweater. Terrible. Ortiz looks fookin ridiculous here ;D Bowl cut and Fu Manchu wtf

Sanchez Leon down in 1st. Survives to bell.

I cannot for the life of me believe Flores is pushing this guy so hard. "can be serious contender at 147" :kick:

Same Ortiz...rushes into place, squares and telegraphs. Ends rounds touching gloves and smiling...Sanchez Leon survives 2nd

Wow, welcome to stacked deck Texas. Ref takes point from Sanchez Leon for holding..no warnings..and he gets knocked down from right hook behind head. Sanchez Leon survives 3rd

Ortiz little slower in 4th, sitting outside bobbing and nodding. Can't remember if his feet were always this wide but he literally rushes in and takes shoulders on the chin. Sanchez Leon survives 4th

Ortiz just chugging and plugging, basically landing anything he imagines and Leon waves him in on ropes. Sanchez Leon survives 5th

Oh, Ortiz takes best right thrown by Sanchez Leon so far. Ortiz rushing for the ko but just looks sloppy doing it. Sanchez Leons only hope is that right trap cause Ortiz literally runs right in on it. Comes right to you. Sanchez Leon survives 6th

Ortiz with head grinding inside...Sanchez Leon survives 7th.

He just sets this up at distance the ref will stop it, no doubt about it.

Its as much Vics inability to set up and sell a tko as it is the ability of Sanchez Leon to take a beating

Ah, well Sanchez Leon has his corner to thank as they tell ref we've had enough at 2:57 of 8th. Ortiz looks for live interview...they switch to pre recorded 4 rounder:-X

It's on now?? Wow nbc showing army vs navy football.

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NBCsports ch. Its 327 down here on Cox. Main card on regular NBC in hour and fifteen minutes

That is a huge card. Brandon Figueroa fought 4 hours ago and the first fight was an hour before that.

Good thing is we have heavyweight boxing on "free" prime time TV! Bad is they are showing Arreola and Kauffman at weigh-in face off poking and grabbing each others roll of belly fat hanging over trunks :p

Looks like they are first up!

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Bad is they are showing Arreola and Kauffman at weigh-in face off poking and grabbing each others roll of belly fat hanging over trunks :p

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and arreola lost around 10 pounds for this fight too :S

I like arreola, I think he's pretty skilled, he always seems just a bit too slow though, I doubt he's ever going to win a world title... well unless the ibf have something special planned :S......

Chris starts very sharp then eases off in 1st. Hands look quick but that's about it. Kauffman has the swiftness of a aircraft carrier. Just cannot see Chris going any higher than he's already been.

:o Ohhh that was a clean right and Chris went down like he was shot with a brick!! Hard KD

ok that was world class comedy...... arreola gets knocked down but manages to pull down kauffmans shorts.... doesnt get better than this

who says heavyweight boxing isnt entertaining !

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ok that was world class comedy...... arreola gets knocked down but manages to pull down kauffmans shorts.... doesnt get better than this

who says heavyweight boxing isnt entertaining !

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That was one uppercut away from a bad moon rising. Surprised Arreola crumpled like that, just looks weak almost

oh nice arreola wobbles kauffman with a left hook whilst they are interviewing nazim, Arreola fights are usually fun

I cannot look at Kaufmann and not see 'Captain Spaulding' from the Rob zombie movies in there???

Just had to throw that in. They have settled in 5th, Arreola boxing a bit

Have Kauffman ahead, showing the stronger and better punches last few rounds. Think he can push it and hurt him again by looks of it.

Wow, Kaufmann taunting him. You have to always wonder about former sparring partners facing off. Too familiar, bonds form etc. Not here ;D

Yeah i think arreola is finished, Kauffman is looking fresher and arreola seems to have lost a lot of his punch resistance from his prime years.

Somebody throw an academy award into the ring.

Arreolas eyes are starting to go full Cheech! Kauffman needs to kick in the door with simple one-twos...stop being nice

I think arreola is felling really tired right now, he takes a long time from the low blow and then he sits as long as he can on his stool in the corner :S.... He is catching kauffman though, I hope he gets the ko

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"silent agreement" as Atlas would say ?

Not sure what Kaufmann is doing in 10 and 11. Well, he is massive so doesn't help.

Arreola is great fun, I think he lost this one... I hope he doesnt retire though, he still puts on a great show at the lower levels. Although I think for the good of his health he should probably back away from fighting now.

Lost score but easily Arreola in 10,11,12...well wait, just got stunned ;D

Think Kaufmann won this. If they rule a draw I quit boxing.

That was a really fun fight. I was eating lunch though so I have no idea who was winning. Go on make it a draw. :p

Cant see how Chris could possibly win this but who the F knows these days.

Lol

oooooooooooo arreola wins a split decision, not sure about that......... I think a rematch is in order, to be fair it was a fairly close fight

Ooh, soo close with the draw call! Hahaha. It was fun enough, let them have a rematch.

:author: Kauffman should kick his own arse now. He had it, still deserved it. Does little for Arreola but push him into deeper traffic for a bad wreck. He'll make some coin

He just forgot it was commercial TV and went full Chinese with interview delay ;D

Oh dear Kauffman really dumped on fred kassi there :S....... He should try taking on big fred before he disrespects him like that

I'll say it...I feel a little Chavez Jr with Figueroa jr. I mean CW because your arse wouldn't make weight ???

DeMarco actually quicker than expected, he's jarring the shit outta his jaw in 1st. If anything has always been a slicing type puncher