Leo Santa Cruz vs Kiko Martinez Thread

[Lineal]

Another fight similar to the Crawford situation where the elite guy is taking on a tough but nonthreatening opponent.

Santa Cruz by KO. He'll just roll over him I think.

Lets hope the rematch between Ceja and Ruiz kicks off where it ended in the first fight. Ceja was down in the 3rd before stopping Ruiz in the 5th. Ruiz was looking in control up to that point. I'm leaning towards Ceja to repeat but I expect both guys to hit the canvas at some point.

[Master]

First fight was the best fight for me last year in terms of comeback after being hurt and knocked down.

[Lineal]

It really was a nice lil mini war.

[Spicoli]

Trying to get up for it and Santa Cruz fan but really wish they'd stop these same time head to head cards. Have to admire his work rate and activity, has rode to 3 division champion in such a short amount of time. If he keeps his head with improved boxing he should do a wide number on Martinez.

[Spicoli]

Good scrap! Martinez totally recouped and buzzed Leo.

[TitoFan]

I caught some of it, but left to watch the Crawford-Lundy fight. I hate these head-to-heads also.

Anyway, super impressed at how Martinez, being much shorter and giving away tons of arm length, made a fight of it. Gave Santa Cruz all he could handle and then some. Bloodied his nose and rocked him pretty good. But in the end it was too much firepower from Leo. Best of the three fights I watched (including both on HBO).

[Master]

Why do the TV companies show big fights at the same time? No business sense to do that, they should schedule the fights the following week. Idiots just disrespecting the boxing fans.