Orlando Salido vs. "Mikey" Garcia - Saturday night fight/chat thread

[CFH]

Stopping a fight because of a broken nose?

[CFH]

Wait, it's going to the cards - my UD prediction is salvaged!

[Mars_ax]

Wait, it's going to the cards - my UD prediction is salvaged!

It was getting later in the fight and it looked like Salido might see the final bell, so there's a good chance it would have been a UD for Garcia anyway.

[IamInuit]

Look Salido was butchered and point wise based on a ten point must system in the negative by about 4 points after 4 rounds lol. Garcia had 4 rounds with 4 additional points. For Salido that's like starting the fight in about round 6 or 8. The right man won.

[ruthless rocco]

Q -"hey mikey garcia... remember when you won your first title by claiming you couldn't go on because of a broken nose and knew you'd win on points if they went to the score cards?"

mikey garcia - "yeah"

Q -"...and your opponent salido was coming on, having his most effective rounds where he was connecting with hard shots? do you remember what you said after the fight?

mikey garcia - "yeah. i said its hard to breathe with a broken nose"

congratulations champ. you deserve it!!!!

[fightscorecollector]

How did you all score the Salido-garcia fight, I had it 79-69 at time of stoppage

[BARNEYKX]

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[Mars_ax]

How did you all score the Salido-garcia fight, I had it 79-69 at time of stoppage

That's about how I had it @fightscorecollector, 79-69 when the fight was stopped. Garcia had a 10-7 in the 1st (2 KD's) and two 10-8 rounds in the 3rd and 4th, each round with another KD. Salido who showed a lot of sack surviving the KD's and the beating he was taking, probably did enough to win the 7th round.
In rounds I had it Garcia 6-1 before the ring Dr. stopped it:
From ESPN:
"We went up to check him, and it is very broken," Dr. Robert Polofsky said of Garcia's nose. "It was too dangerous to have him to continue to fight like that, so we made the decision to stop the fight. He couldn't breathe."

Garcia is going to be hard for anyone to beat @ featherweight, he's the total package of speed, power, great technical/boxing skills, and a good defense.

[beenKOed]

Q -"hey mikey garcia... remember when you won your first title by claiming you couldn't go on because of a broken nose and knew you'd win on points if they went to the score cards?"

mikey garcia - "yeah"

Q -"...and your opponent salido was coming on, having his most effective rounds where he was connecting with hard shots? do you remember what you said after the fight?

mikey garcia - "yeah. i said its hard to breathe with a broken nose"

congratulations champ. you deserve it!!!!

You and I would have fought on, ignoring the rules and the doctors because we like to fight with a disadvantage but that little chicken shit Garcia quit. What a prick. God, I wish there were more macho men like you and I in boxing.
Salido did himself a favor with that, in my opinion, questionable head butt as he was on his way to being KOed. He's lucky you or I weren't in there because we would have continued to beat the shit out of him.