Quote Originally Posted by RHHatton
If you dont throw any punches how can you possibly win the fight?? Manfredo froze on the big occasion. He is and never will be in calzaghe'c class.

calzaghe could have taken him out at any point of that fight IMO. I dont know what the official stats say but im pretty sure that manfredo only threw about 15 punches in the whole fight


Come on, Manfredo didn't get a chance to fight. I definitely didn't see any domination. I thought Joe would win, but the first round was close, the second Joe won clearly, and the third got stopped without any damage done by either fighter. Manfredo was doing ok. He stated his strategy was to box not bomb him out. So I would think he was waiting for Joe to stop punching and then he would punch back, he wasn't hurt, wasn't even getting hit with most of those shots. It was an absolutely RIDICULOUS stoppage.

Granted hardly anyone thought Manfredo would win, but most, myself included thought he would give a decent showing. He was doing fine, and apparently the ref felt that it was a total mismatch and he was looking for a reason to stop it. There's really no other explanation. There wasn't a single shot landed that looked damaging. Peter ate a few straight punches, but nothing to indicate he was hurt. Nothing at all....... It was ridiculous. That ref would have stopped every fight Sugar Ray Leonard threw his shoe shine combo at the end of the round. Winky Wright would be in big trouble with this ref , he always lets people punch his guard. Probably would have given Soliman a tko against Winky.