Librado Andrade vs Robert Stieglitz...was a good fight...

[amat]

I was getting a bit annoyed with the commentating last night when they kept going on and on about how limited in skill Andrade was, even saying that some viewers would question why they aired the fight when Andrade was putting on a very good performance and doing so in pretty good fashion. It was like he was slighted the entire time through.

I thought Andrade looked very good in there, much improved from his fight with Kessler and his activity level was through the roof in this one.

He did a lot of things right. He was spacing his punches nicely and he was working both from the outside in and from the inside out, always mixing it up. He used long straight punches like the jab and cross to get moving inside and then the short hooks and uppercuts to create space and get outside, then would rinse and repeat. Textbook stuff. The left hook landed at a bunch of different lengths and he rarely took a step backwards.

Stieglitz was just working off the inactivity of Andrade and Andrade didn't provide a whole lot of downtime. Even when Andrade was just doing busy work, pitting and patting, Stieglitz remained on the defensive. He did have some good combinations in there but they came to far between one another to be effective.

It wasn't until the final couple rounds when Stieglitz actually tried to punch in between the punches of Andrade and by that point the damage had already been done.

In what is now a wide open super middleweight division, you have to factor Andrade to be right there in the mix. Of course it'll be tough for him to make up any ground on Kessler but I can bet that there aren't too many guys who would like to see Andrade opposite them in the ring. He looked good last night.

[CutMeMick]

I was getting a bit annoyed with the commentating last night when they kept going on and on about how limited in skill Andrade was, even saying that some viewers would question why they aired the fight when Andrade was putting on a very good performance and doing so in pretty good fashion. It was like he was slighted the entire time through.

I thought Andrade looked very good in there, much improved from his fight with Kessler and his activity level was through the roof in this one.

He did a lot of things right. He was spacing his punches nicely and he was working both from the outside in and from the inside out, always mixing it up. He used long straight punches like the jab and cross to get moving inside and then the short hooks and uppercuts to create space and get outside, then would rinse and repeat. Textbook stuff. The left hook landed at a bunch of different lengths and he rarely took a step backwards.

Stieglitz was just working off the inactivity of Andrade and Andrade didn't provide a whole lot of downtime. Even when Andrade was just doing busy work, pitting and patting, Stieglitz remained on the defensive. He did have some good combinations in there but they came to far between one another to be effective.

It wasn't until the final couple rounds when Stieglitz actually tried to punch in between the punches of Andrade and by that point the damage had already been done.

In what is now a wide open super middleweight division, you have to factor Andrade to be right there in the mix. Of course it'll be tough for him to make up any ground on Kessler but I can bet that there aren't too many guys who would like to see Andrade opposite them in the ring. He looked good last night.

Very well put amat... I sent some Rep. your way for this.

That sums up the fight right there you pretty much covered it all.
I agree that it felt like the HBO team were down playing Andrade even as he showed skills putting punches together and attacking the body.

I hope he get's a shot at the title soon.