Quote Originally Posted by amat View Post
Just want your general opinions on these fighters, not a lot of them get any play on the board or anywhere so was just wondering what you think. I will give my opinion after my class, but wanted others first.

Urbano Antillon
Rock Allen
Ty Barnett
Vanes Matrirosyan
Mike Alvarado
Joe Greene
Vincente Escobedo
Wilmer Vazquez
Joe Greene
Lucas Mattyshe
Devon Alexander


That's all for now, feel free to pick ajnd choose. Thanks.
Started out with Antillon because I'm surprised he doesn't have a runaway bandwagon by now, instead I think it's hard to fill up a Volkswagen with vocal supporters of his. Very exciting fighter and I was super impressed in watching him dispatch of Attah, a semi-slick guy with very good wheels and a good outside game. Antillon went straight at him and didn't get turned off the jab, cut off the ring and just mowed him down. He spaces his shots about as perfect as you can, never smothers himself with his opponent in front of him and is absolutely deadly when he has you there. He's very, very calm and he just has a cool stalking demeanor, he's a cerebral fighter you can tell he never gets overexcited, loves to pound under the elbows and set his offense up from there. And his body attack is among the best in boxing already imo, he just has brutal clubbing power that never stops. Attah had his mouth open from the body shots at the end of the 1st round and was already outwilled, never had any intentions of winning from that point on. His punches are so short and he has such calculated movements that he doesn't waste anything, he isn't fast but he has a tight guard and extremely short punches that it's hard to get more then 1 punch at a time off on him, he has a guard similar to Cotto's where he's not going to be open for more then one shot at a time and your best bet is probably through the middle but he doesn't lunge and get between shots like Cotto tends to do. Can you imagine Soto-Antillon? Or Guerrero-Antillon? Can't wait to see more Antillon, awesome fighter.


Rock Allen had a good comeback but he just has some habits that are more silly then effective, like was his insistence to keep his hands low on the inside for no real reason. It isn't in the least bit effective, makes his punches longer and loopier and Vera a few times just waited on Allen to slip and timed him there. At the end of one round Allen slipped low and bent over, Vera never threw just stayed loaded up, Allen never moved and Vera ended up just unloading to the back of Allen's head. He has a ton of speed, not all of it in his hands either, has the Philly mentality so he is always going to be right there and his best weapon is probably the right hand fired straight even though like Spicoli said his favorite punch is the left hook and he will open with the hook more then he will the jab at times. Very slippery but just wish he would complement that with a guard, fires really well moving forward and also always moves out with punches which is something that I wish every fighter did. Still has some immaturity though that he needs to iron out before he goes the way of Anthony Thompson, only wanting to fight one way no matter how effective he is. There are going to be fighters especially at welterweight who will be more active then him inside and if he falls in love with getting in and slipping punches to much he is going to lose more rounds then he might think. Also, he looked a bit tired towards the end of his last bout, understandable though it was off a layoff.

Ty Barnett is a wierd one. I saw him live in September and that was the first time I had ever heard of him. He's trained by Barry Hunter who trains the Peterson brothers and I swear he is the third Peterson brother. He even looks exactly like Lamont Peterson in the face. He also fights in the same division at 140. I'm shocked I haven't heard more about him he has all the talent in the world and he fights at the same consistent pace as the Peterson brothers where he doesn't take the foot off the gas pedal nor does he really put it on, just puts it on cruise control. Very composed with every bit of the same style, tight guard, throws almost solely in combinations, goes to the body and head and is just huge for a junior welterweight. Blue chipper, I can't believe I have never heard of him he is going to surprise a whole lot of people one day. The only video I had to go by him before I saw him with my own eyes. I never got the chance to talk with him so I don't know what his am record is or anything but I swear, he is the third Peterson brother and every bit as talented.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SwJWkfUqkU