SHOWTIME Saturday. Mares vs Gonzalez

[Freedom]

[IamInuit]

Really nice shot. Mares should take a brief holiday and jump at the rematch if a clause provides it. If you are going to get stopped this would be the easiest kind of stoppage to come back from. Caught cold and early in the first round instead of later after a beat down or later when winning the fight.

[Fenster]

Nice to see nothing changes with Jhonny - loses when he's meant to win, wins when he's meant to lose. Great left hook.

[Fenster]

Santa Cruz is the new Rendall Munroe.

[amat]

Wow. I work on Saturday nights, just got off an hour ago at 230. Being a boxing fan that sucks. Luckily I have just switched to directv, so now I have the fancy little dvr where I can just record fights and watch them immediately rather than have to wait to download and then watch on my cell phone. Tonight, somehow, I forgot to record the live event and made a frantic call to the lady to record the 1030 west coast showing while at work. To my horror, when I get home there was an episode of dexter and some black dude doing stand up up for the first 2 hours of my 3 hour recording. I was pissed off but thought I would at least get the Santa Cruz fight in before the stupid recording cut off. Obviously that bout was awesome. Since I had effectively cut myself off from the result of the main event while at work, I had decided I would just watch what I could of the main event. Holy shit, I just finished watching what I'm pretty sure was the fight. I believe in the last second of the recording that is the ref waving off the bout. I had to read a bit of this thread to discover this was indeed the case. Fuck you program guide, but it's all good. Holy shit again.

There isn't much to say about the main event except that Jhonny Gonzalez is the fucken man. And what a left hook he still has. Mares has always had that little bad habit where he dropped the right hand when he came in hard behind the jab. He got caught with a right hand very early that proves the point, it's just a little instinct for him that has always seemed to make more vulnerable than he should be. In this case though, it's hard to point out a hard flaw in his game. Gonzalez really just caught him with a perfect shot and Mares was too much the man to not hold and survive. If the stoppage really was after the second KD, that's a little bit bs because of how late it was in the round but iI don't know. Still what an amazing main event. I don't know how much you can analyze a bout like this, Gonzalez threw pretty much a perfect punch. Mares did have the right low, but it came so Damn fast, more credit to old Jhonny than blame to Mares.

[beenKOed]

Superb, though Mares was stopped too early. He had plenty of time to recover inbetween the round.

Glad it was stopped, Mares was done, without the sense to grab and hold not that it would have been easy to grab and hold a veteran like Gonzalez.
Ever notice that the big buildup seems to be the kiss of death in the ring, sometimes?

[bigstinkybug]

Wow. I work on Saturday nights, just got off an hour ago at 230. Being a boxing fan that sucks. Luckily I have just switched to directv, so now I have the fancy little dvr where I can just record fights and watch them immediately rather than have to wait to download and then watch on my cell phone. Tonight, somehow, I forgot to record the live event and made a frantic call to the lady to record the 1030 west coast showing while at work. To my horror, when I get home there was an episode of dexter and some black dude doing stand up up for the first 2 hours of my 3 hour recording. I was pissed off but thought I would at least get the Santa Cruz fight in before the stupid recording cut off. Obviously that bout was awesome. Since I had effectively cut myself off from the result of the main event while at work, I had decided I would just watch what I could of the main event. Holy shit, I just finished watching what I'm pretty sure was the fight. I believe in the last second of the recording that is the ref waving off the bout. I had to read a bit of this thread to discover this was indeed the case. Fuck you program guide, but it's all good. Holy shit again.

There isn't much to say about the main event except that Jhonny Gonzalez is the fucken man. And what a left hook he still has. Mares has always had that little bad habit where he dropped the right hand when he came in hard behind the jab. He got caught with a right hand very early that proves the point, it's just a little instinct for him that has always seemed to make more vulnerable than he should be. In this case though, it's hard to point out a hard flaw in his game. Gonzalez really just caught him with a perfect shot and Mares was too much the man to not hold and survive. If the stoppage really was after the second KD, that's a little bit bs because of how late it was in the round but iI don't know. Still what an amazing main event. I don't know how much you can analyze a bout like this, Gonzalez threw pretty much a perfect punch. Mares did have the right low, but it came so Damn fast, more credit to old Jhonny than blame to Mares.

*I had just commented last night how dangerous Gonzalez is... I missed the damn fight as well, but yea..Gonzalez gets credit rather than Mares dropping the ball...Gonzalez has done this type thing time and time again. He's got star power... and not just power, he's a world class technician..OFFENSIVELY... but his chin is made in china.

[bigstinkybug]

Nice to see nothing changes with Jhonny - loses when he's meant to win, wins when he's meant to lose. Great left hook.

*it's actually a fake hook to the body.. Mares never knew what hit him.

[Fenster]

Nice to see nothing changes with Jhonny - loses when he's meant to win, wins when he's meant to lose. Great left hook.

*it's actually a fake hook to the body.. Mares never knew what hit him.

Great fake hook to the body. He sure didn't.

[Fenster]

Mares eyes were rolling, when trying to get up from the second knockdown, that's why the ref stopped it.

[TheMacMagician]

Absolutely delighted for Gonzalez. I was real happy for him when he got back on the trail by stopping Hasegowa. That was some win for him last night and a lovely left hook to get the ball rolling on the stoppage too. Mares did superbly well to get up from that first knockdown a do say.....

[Rantcatrat]

I was completely wrong about this one. I thought this was a gimme fight for Mares. Wow. That was a big upset.

[Tam Seddon]

I bet Ponce De Leon will want another shot at Gonzalez and I'm sure Gonzalez would want to avenge that loss. I'm surprised at that result, I bet De la Hoya was gutted! Where does mares go from here?

[Rantcatrat]

I bet Ponce De Leon will want another shot at Gonzalez and I'm sure Gonzalez would want to avenge that loss. I'm surprised at that result, I bet De la Hoya was gutted! Where does mares go from here?

There is a rematch clause, but I'm not sure he should take it.

[Julius Rain]

Wow I didn't bother with this but was I wrong!

Glad to see Johnny have one more big night!!!!

What now for both of them?