Robert Guerrero vs. Selcuk Aydin Saturday night fight/chat thread

[captainanddew]

RG did have one fight at 140 almost exactly 2 yrs ago. Casamayor. So his only fight at that weight was against a shot/faded 135 pound fighter. And he got dropped late in that fight.

if Aydin can do decent bodywork throughout the fight he has a chance at catching RG in the last 3-4 rounds.

A fading Katsidis, who was beat up throughout the bout, was able to still hurt RG a bit later in their fight with bodyshots.

[Mars_ax]

The Showtime card starts @ 10:00 PM ET tonight here in the States and about 3:00 AM for you night owls in the UK, so ice up a brew or 2 and lets check it out.


July 28
At San Jose, Calif. (Showtime): Robert Guerrero vs. Selcuk Aydin, 12 rounds, for vacant WBC interim welterweight title; Shawn Porter vs. Alfonso Gomez, 10 rounds, welterweights; George Groves vs. Francisco Sierra, 8 rounds, super middleweights.

[Mars_ax]

Do any of our stateside friends no much about Sierra? Will he be a danger for Groves? Boxer,brawler,puncher?

Yo Beanz, you must have put this in the wrong thread.

cheers

[Beanz]

Do any of our stateside friends no much about Sierra? Will he be a danger for Groves? Boxer,brawler,puncher?

Yo Beanz, you must have put this in the wrong thread.

cheers

Not really this fight is on the undercard and you have already confirmed it in your own posts:-)

Cheers anyhoos

[Mars_ax]

Do any of our stateside friends no much about Sierra? Will he be a danger for Groves? Boxer,brawler,puncher?

Yo Beanz, you must have put this in the wrong thread.

cheers

Not really this fight is on the undercard and you have already confirmed it in your own posts:-)

Cheers anyhoos

Right you are Sir, George Groves vs. Francisco Sierra, 8 rounds, super middleweights. I doubt that Showtime will air this fight tonight, and sorry right off the top of my head, I don't know anything about either fighter other than they're Super-middleweights.
If I hear the result tonight, i'll post it in this thread.

[Mars_ax]

RG did have one fight at 140 almost exactly 2 yrs ago. Casamayor. So his only fight at that weight was against a shot/faded 135 pound fighter. And he got dropped late in that fight.

if Aydin can do decent bodywork throughout the fight he has a chance at catching RG in the last 3-4 rounds.

A fading Katsidis, who was beat up throughout the bout, was able to still hurt RG a bit later in their fight with bodyshots.

I figure Robert will take care of business unless he gets rocked with a big shot. Guerrero has more experience and faced better competition than Aydin has. That's my take.

[Diane]

Do any of our stateside friends no much about Sierra? Will he be a danger for Groves? Boxer,brawler,puncher?

Yo Beanz, you must have put this in the wrong thread.
middleweights. I doubt that Showtime will air this fight tonight, and sorry right off the top of my head, I don't know anything about either fighter other than they're Super-middleweights.
If I hear the result tonight, i'll post it in this thread.

They are showing this fight, it's just about to start on Showtime Extreme.

[superheavyrhun]

Tidy opening round for Groves, Sierra doesn't look to have much movement.

[superheavyrhun]

Really good performance from Groves, although he did get a nasty cut from a headbutt in the second which may mean he has to delay his fight with Anderson. Although it's off to the corner above his right eye, it looked really deep.

However, once the fifth began he landed four concussive shots that sent Sierra crashing to the canvas. Great stuff from Groves, hope he recovers okay.

[Mars_ax]

Do any of our stateside friends no much about Sierra? Will he be a danger for Groves? Boxer,brawler,puncher?

Yo Beanz, you must have put this in the wrong thread.
middleweights. I doubt that Showtime will air this fight tonight, and sorry right off the top of my head, I don't know anything about either fighter other than they're Super-middleweights.
If I hear the result tonight, i'll post it in this thread.

They are showing this fight, it's just about to start on Showtime Extreme.

Hey Diane, I just noticed extreme was showing the undercard fights, but tuned in too late.

So who won, Groves or Sierra?

[Mars_ax]

Really good performance from Groves, although he did get a nasty cut from a headbutt in the second which may mean he has to delay his fight with Anderson. Although it's off to the corner above his right eye, it looked really deep.

However, once the fifth began he landed four concussive shots that sent Sierra crashing to the canvas. Great stuff from Groves, hope he recovers okay.

So Groves wins by 5th round KO,

[Mars_ax]

The fights will start in about 20 minutes, time for beer, a few Newcastle Brown Ales for me tonight.

[superheavyrhun]

The fights will start in about 20 minutes, time for beer, a few Newcastle Brown Ales for me tonight.

Have a good one mate....starting to get a little late for me.... I think it was a sixth round KO come to think of it, Groves had a terrible cut, but that just focused him on getting the job done, and the knockdown before the ref stopped it was pretty nice. Sierra was very upright and didn't have the best defence.

The other fight on was Hugo Centeno against Ayi Bruce of Ghana, and possibly one of the most one-sided eight rounders I've seen. I don't think Bruce landed over 9 punches a round the whole bout, and the first half Centeno was outpunching him 30+ against one or two. However, these Ghanaians have excellent chins, and while it was never competitive, he stuck around. It was 80-72,80-72, 79-73, and Bruce was lucky to get that. Centeno doesn't look to be a huge puncher, but at 6'1", he's a very tall guy in that division.

[Mars_ax]

The fights will start in about 20 minutes, time for beer, a few Newcastle Brown Ales for me tonight.

Have a good one mate....starting to get a little late for me.... I think it was a sixth round KO come to think of it, Groves had a terrible cut, but that just focused him on getting the job done, and the knockdown before the ref stopped it was pretty nice. Sierra was very upright and didn't have the best defence.

The other fight on was Hugo Centeno against Ayi Bruce of Ghana, and possibly one of the most one-sided eight rounders I've seen. I don't think Bruce landed over 9 punches a round the whole bout, and the first half Centeno was outpunching him 30+ against one or two. However, these Ghanaians have excellent chins, and while it was never competitive, he stuck around. It was 80-72,80-72, 79-73, and Bruce was lucky to get that. Centeno doesn't look to be a huge puncher, but at 6'1", he's a very tall guy in that division.

Thanks for the update..

[captainanddew]

The fights will start in about 20 minutes, time for beer, a few Newcastle Brown Ales for me tonight.

so gus johnson wants to put RG in the same breath as henry armstrong(if he wins). a little hint, armstrong didn't win an interim title at 147 when there was 4 major belts.