So What Did We Learn?

[marbleheadmaui]

agree on the Cintron bit 100%, that's why i found it hilarious when guys were actually picking him to beat Cotto if they ever fought, and those who hinted at Cotto "avoiding" taking on a tough fight against Kermit

as for the other dude commenting on Arreola not being able to stop his opponent, well Vitali took like 10 rounds to finally get a stoppage, no way in hell that guys like Chambers will stop Arreola

Cintron has always been one of those "million dollar body, five cent head" kind of guys.

[captainanddew]

agree on the Cintron bit 100%, that's why i found it hilarious when guys were actually picking him to beat Cotto if they ever fought, and those who hinted at Cotto "avoiding" taking on a tough fight against Kermit

as for the other dude commenting on Arreola not being able to stop his opponent, well Vitali took like 10 rounds to finally get a stoppage, no way in hell that guys like Chambers will stop Arreola

Cintron has always been one of those "million dollar body, five cent head" kind of guys.

very true, but last night it looked like Cintron's body wasn't there. His punches were damn slow. He had no timing. All the heart in the world wouldn't have helped as his body was moving in slow motion.

[JazMerkin]

Ok, so I had a training course this morning so I had to DL the fights from last night & had managed to avoid the results all day. I sat watched Rios-Antillon first (had small shades of Hagler-Hearns) & was delighted to have got my pick close to right on that, although I had Rios in 5. Then I settled down for Cintron-Molina & was delighted to see Molina pull the upset as I predicted & Ramos got the KO as I backed him to, although he looked utter shit.

Then time to see if Lara could pull the upset & give me a very very rare 100% weekend picking fights. I'm normally one to jump on the HBO guys for being one-sided, but I just didn't see anything other than probably the 4th & 6th which could go to Williams. I thought he landed a lot of cuffing punches in the clinch. It was one of those, where I thought they CAN'T rob him it's so wide. When I heard the scorecards I was sat there thinking 'those are disgracefully close & the draw, these guys need investigating' & then he says from North Carolina & it took me about 15 seconds to process it, I was thinking 'he must have read the wrong winner out'.

I hate seeing the word 'robbery' thrown around as it is after almost any close-ish fight, but I really feel this was. I can't see any way that someone could have it even close. I felt this was more one-sided than last weekend's fight & I though Wlad won that at a canter. Seeing this kind of shit is what kills boxing for any new fan watching. I always think I should be immune to this, but it is fucking gutting when you see it happen to a fighter who has trained has heart out & put it all on the line.