SHOWTIME Saturday. Mares vs Gonzalez

**amat** · 08-25-2013 11:32 AM

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.

**bigstinkybug** · 08-25-2013 04:07 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

*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.