Rayonta Whitfeld my analysis

[Violent Demise]

I saw a lot of flaws in Whitfeld on this last WNF. He has a great jab, nice straight right, nice left hook an ok uppercut, and decent footwork. All that being said he couldn't seem to put everything together. I scored that fight 114-114, Vargas played him like a fiddle most of that fight and if he wouldn't have waited so much, I think the fight was his to take. Any other opinions.

I scored it a draw as well

[amat]

And for what it's worth, Vargas is no slouch, he gave a very good account of himself. Very high energy fighter who punched in combinations and I was taken off guard by how fast he was. Very fast both with the feet and hands, in the first two rounds you could see from the first exchange he was fast, made Whitfield's long punches look slow. Not much power and a bit wild at times but I doubt that's the last we hear of him, he looked pretty good.

[CutMeMick]

The thing to think about here is if the whole 'Eliminator' deal goes through he'll be fighting Nonito Donaire next.

Sorry Rayonta but your hitting the canvas. Good luck kid.

I hope your management team is smart enough to know your not ready for World Class just yet.

[OumaFan]

this is what I said in another thread

Whitfield's got some issues IMO

I'll give him this, he's improved a lot over the last time I saw him on ESPN, a lot tighter with his punches.

But he's pretty one dimensional, he really is only effective with his feet planted at range throwing the jab and the right hand. When he moves he moves backwards or to the side and he pretty much just moves, he doesn't stick and move much and when he does its pretty ineffective, he just pushes out weak punches. No inside game either and not much bodywork. I wasn't really scoring it but I thought he just got by, 117-111 was a bit homerish.

He needs to learn how to circle, not moving or "running" (not that I thought he ran) so much as just circling and punching off of that.