Its been clear for a while he's slipping, the Pearson fight, he didn't even look that good in the last Chico fight.
I was a fan at one time, not a huge fan but I've rooted for him in a lot of his fights but that was horrible. Run and hold, run and hold.
WTF was Steve Smoger waiting for? Take a point, take two points, disqualify him for the excessive holding. I usually like Smoger but him congratulating Casa on breaking cleanly after one of his 800 clinches was ridiculous. The ridiculous thing is he didn't need to fight that way, Santa Cruz is not that good at all, Casa could have held his ground and beaten Santa Cruz with shorter, straighter punches. Although listening to Steward rationalize it was kind of funny.
I was pretty much certain before the fight that he couldn't beat Juan Diaz at this stage of his career, now I'm about as certain as you can possibly be about a "big" fight.
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