Quote Originally Posted by daly5050 View Post
The fighter that gave Ricardo the most trouble was Rosendo Alvarez, particularly in the first fight.. I haven't watched it in a long time but it ended in a draw and I believe a lot of people felt this was generous towards Ricardo. For some reason I thought this was because Ricardo moved up in weight, but looking at boxrec this doesn't seem to be the case.. Maybe Alvarez moved down? I always thought there was something to do with weight but I could also just be completely wrong.
Lopez was 35 or 36 at the time he fought Alvarez who knocked him down with a right hand. I have been watching a ton of Lopez lately and he seems to have been a bit of a sucker for a right hand; he got hit with a nice one in a fight when he was 27 and another when he was 24 or 25.
In the second Alvarez fight, lopez agreed to fight even though Alvarez was 7 pounds above the contracted weight. Lopez beat him handily, despite getting cut up quite a bit. Alvarez fought pretty rough and was free in the use of his head.