Fernando Vargas vs Ike Quartey Underrated Fight.

[SweetPea]

As for ODLH vs Quartey i don't know what your exact scoring was but i personally had Quartey 3 points ahead after 11th round, and at the end of the fight i had Quartey winning by 1 point. I thought it was a close fight but i thought the rounds were quite easy to score IMO.

I saw the fight much the same way you did. Most close fights have a lot of close rounds, but that fight didn't. I thought Ike clearly won 7 rounds, Oscar clearly won 4 rounds, and there was one round that was up for grabs. But no matter who you gave that one round to, Quartey would still be ahead on the scorecards.

There should have been a rematch, not just because it had a controversial decision, but also because it was a very entertaining fight that people would have wanted to see a second time.

But i don't know if i would have liked to have seen the faded 98 version of Whitaker vs prime Quartey if im honest.

I think Quartey would have beaten Whitaker if that fight had come off. He would have been too big, strong, and active for Whitaker at that point. It probably would have looked a little bit like Trinidad vs. Whitaker.

[Master]

I remember Vargas says he was in the best condition of his life for that fight. He said they made him watch everything he ate, he could not even have ketchup.

Quartey v Oba Carr was a very good fight too.

[Puerto Rican Punch]

This was great fight and both were great fighters also. Bad thing for Vargas that Tito finished his career early.

[ICB]

I remember Vargas says he was in the best condition of his life for that fight. He said they made him watch everything he ate, he could not even have ketchup.

Quartey v Oba Carr was a very good fight too.

Good fight but i don't know what that one judge was watching, didn't he have the fight even ?? i thought Quartey whooped Carr's ass for first 9 rounds. Carr comeback strong in later rounds but he still lost the last round, plus the knock down in the 11th was BS Carr hit him on the back. Larry Merchant made good point when Arthur Mercante deducted a point from Quartey for holding Carr's head down as i remember right, he said Ali done that about 50 times against Frazier but Mercante never even warned Ali. Yet Quartey done it only once and got a point deducted. But as for the fight itself i gave Carr 3 or 4 rounds can't remember exactly, but that one judge who had it even couldn't have been watching the fight.