Champion Toshiaki Nishioka vs. Challenger Jhonny Gonzalez for WBC 122 Title on May 23

[Tam Seddon]

Poor Greg, your boy lost again

[XaduBoxer]

wow is that true? thats like 35/65 in favor of Nishioka?


Is he that good, fighting with his eyes close?

Actually it's 80/20 sharing of the $425,000 total purse in favor of Nishioka... (Julius, your math is kind of rusty )... It's a purse bidding the Mexican promoter won and as a champion, Nishioka is entitled to 80% of the purse...

He's that good... He's really a Japanese (closed eyes) ...
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wow now I feel even more bad for jhonny.

Yep.. real bad for J-Gonz he got caught... That title belt should have been the ticket back to the limelight...
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[XaduBoxer]

Here's the video of the KO...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgQ_L8hMuVM
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[Tam Seddon]

bad news for JG, big big KO that

[XaduBoxer]

bad news for JG, big big KO that

Yeah, big big KO....

Nishioka already carried up in the air celebrating and J-Gonz still wobbly...

[JazMerkin]

Wow, an absolutely brutal KO, those seem to be happening a fair bit in fights Bayless is reffing recently. I like Jhonny, but he's gonna struggle to come back from that

[ElTerribleMorales]

i'd honestly like to see a rematch, after rewatching the KO a couple times, it was a nice shot, but i think the way that Gonzalez hit the canvas is really what messed him up, good job by Nishioka to come back from the first 2 rounds though

[SaltyBacon]

when he got koed by penalosa he waS THINKING ABOUT RETIRNG HIS GOT TO BE A BIG BLOW TO GONZALEZ i like the way he fights kinda a shame cause i thought he win this fight be more big fights for him hopefully he come back strong

[TitoFan]

I'd like to see Nishioka vs JML for unification at 122 pounds. Two powerful lefties going at it... should be a pretty good fight.

[LEGION]

Here's the video of the KO...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgQ_L8hMuVM
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Holy sh#t He looked like he got launched from a cannon Surprised Johnny got up; he looked like he was imitating Hatton.

[XaduBoxer]

Here's the video of the KO...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgQ_L8hMuVM.

Holy sh#t He looked like he got launched from a cannon Surprised Johnny got up; he looked like he was imitating Hatton.

"It was a line drive from left field from the southpaw champ that scored boxing’s equivalent of a grand slam, silencing bookies who rated Nishioka a three-to-one underdog while obliterating the dreams of the Mexican challenger who had high hopes, someday, of achieving the status of gran campeon."

Look how confident was Nishioka that J-Gonz won't recover from that devastating blow (though Nishioka forgot to smile )




Right after the devastating left straight:

[XaduBoxer]

A gif image video of Nishioka's KO punch: