ICB's RBR Of Joel Casamayor vs Michael Katsidis.

[Julius Rain]

Hey, I was here longer than most of you guys, it's just that I lost my password and got busy with other things.

That said, I never make the first strike, and I'm sure you'd be the first to hate me for acting like a pussy when I'm called upon.

yea but that won't matter unless you can prove who you were before. just please bro take it easy. Im serious the forum frowns apon new members that speaks and scream their minds and heart. Rule is kinda like, go along to get along. it shouldn't be but it is.

[ICB]

Sorry fellas i got held up i had to take my girl out all night because i promised her. Then i stayed round her place, i was really tired as well so sorry fellas.

[boozeboxer]

well ICB you missed a good fight! You didn't get to watch it at her place did you?

[ICB]

well ICB you missed a good fight! You didn't get to watch it at her place did you?

Nah i didn't i'll have to download it, in fact i just put a link up you know where. So if anyone who hasn't seen it wants to watch it you know where to go fellas.

[boozeboxer]

Sometimes you just have to let your personal life suffer ICB.....

[RP33]

yeah, so i didn't read all 15 pages, but i watched this fight today, and damn it was great..

I think Katsidis could be GREAT but he doesn't seem to have the discipline.. the guy has so much fight in him but he couldn't control it.. as soon as he smelled blood he threw caution to the wind and left himself wide open when he was winning the fight pretty soundly..

he allowed Casamayor to beat him by leaving himself open and not fighting smart protecting the lead..

anyone else think it was a complete joke when Casa said that Katsidis didn't hurt him and that he slipped out of the ring on the knock down!

what a joke.. the guy was almost KO'd..

does katsidis remind anyone else a BIT of hatton? Stylewise.. Obviously Hatton is much better of a fighter but the relentless pressure and wide punches showed a slight resemblance.

[Julius Rain]

yeah, so i didn't read all 15 pages, but i watched this fight today, and damn it was great..

I think Katsidis could be GREAT but he doesn't seem to have the discipline.. the guy has so much fight in him but he couldn't control it.. as soon as he smelled blood he threw caution to the wind and left himself wide open when he was winning the fight pretty soundly..

he allowed Casamayor to beat him by leaving himself open and not fighting smart protecting the lead..

anyone else think it was a complete joke when Casa said that Katsidis didn't hurt him and that he slipped out of the ring on the knock down!

what a joke.. the guy was almost KO'd..

does katsidis remind anyone else a BIT of hatton? Stylewise.. Obviously Hatton is much better of a fighter but the relentless pressure and wide punches showed a slight resemblance.

yea kat does remind me of hatton, he fought well coming forward. I think the two kd was more of the nerves getting to kat then being hurt.

They say slick boxers will always beat a pressure fighter, but imo you must be completely perfect slick wise to beat guys like hatton, and kat. floyd was near complete as being slick, with all his tactics dirty or not, elbows or clean shots. floyd did his thing to perfection to beat hatton and that right hook was damn perfect. casa's way of finishing the fight was more a bit luck then how floyd did it though with real skills.

IMO kat beats casa in a rematch, casa can't fight perfect like floyd. although kat is not yet as good as hatton. its enough to beat an aging casamayor.

[RP33]

Kat beats Casa in a rematch, no doubt. With regard to your Floyd discussion, I agree Floyd elbowed his way to the KO against the much smaller fighter in Hatton.

[amat]

Great fight.

From the moment they both entered the ring and had that great stare down, you knew it was going to be good. I'm glad to see the return of Joel Casamayor. Looked terrible last time out, but lots of movement this time out and he returned from some serious adversity.

However, while Casamayor was the man of the hour, Katsidis pretty much stole the show with his performance. I just got the feeling that we were seeing the beginning We all knew he was exciting, blood and guts volume 2 and that all the superlatives in the world couldn't catch a grip of how exciting he truly was in the ring. We saw that. We saw it against Graham Earl and again against Czar Amonsot but we didn't know if he could compete on the highest level.

Sure enough, he more then competed on the highest level and very well almost won the thing. He didn't have much of an outside attack but he wasn't afraid to rip on the inside and his body punching is going to cause a lot of problems for many years to come. He was absolutely sensational, and his body punching more then anything was giving Casamayor serious problems. I've never seen Casamayor look more uncomfortable in the ring then the way he did when he took those body shots. He hated them and every time one landed, I started to feel my legs drain on my couch at home.

In addition to the body punching, I was surprised at the punch selection. Every combination he put together, it seemed he picked the perfect punch to throw and changed the sight lines of Casamayor, going high to low beautifully, putting the straight right before and after the left hook to keep Joel guessing. And with the exception of the first and last rounds, he wasn't nearly as wild as I previously thought, in fact his punches seemed shorter then Casamayor's most of the fight. You could pretty much tell that it was his first time under the big lights and he had some nerves in him, but you could also tell that he's a guy who will be around for a while. Loved the way he handled himself after the fight, didn't bag on the ref for the stoppage and said all the right things to get back in the ring.

I'm glad for him and think he did very well for himself and any problems he had tonight will iron themselves out over time. He has flaws, but he can work around them. He is pretty much always square but that isn't a problem as long as you have some way of getting inside and you aren't moving straight ahead going for broke which is what cost him all three times he got knocked down.

With that being said, Casamayor was tremendous. He was presented with a test after what appeared to be an easy night in the early going and then he got hurt. Then he really had to work. When the body shots came and you could see all the movement and life sucked out of Casamayor, I thought that was pretty much the last we would see of him.

After the knockdown, he began leaning forward a lot, tying up, stuff that wasn't typical of Casamayor. His movement faded, in those middle rounds he couldn't help but get caught on the ropes and while he was still competitive, you could see things weren't going his way. He was landing the occasional right but he just couldn't keep Katsidis off of him.

Yet from the outset of round 8, he found his motor and was able to move his feet the entire the round, used a lot of lateral movement and never got caught on the ropes. He built on that in round 9, sticking behind the jab and started back up with the left hands again but this time he coupled it with movement like he did in the early goings.

Katsidis made a rookie mistake, saw that Casamayor's quickness was back and began headhunting in round 9. He tried to rush straight ahead in round 10 and as soon as he did, he used the check hook to take care of business.

Only three times that entire fight that Katsidis reached that far in front of his feet the right hand. All three times just trying to make something happen and swing for the fences. And all three times Casamayor sent him to the canvas. That's what guys with nearly 500 fights do, and Joel proved he's still got it.

I think the travesty in the Santa Cruz fight is now absolved and I'm ready to see Casamayor take on any of the top guys at 135.

[RP33]

Kat beats Casa in a rematch, no doubt. With regard to your Floyd discussion, I agree Floyd elbowed his way to the KO against the much smaller fighter in Hatton.

"There is no one more blind than one who refuses to see."

- ragintorent on delusional Floyd fans

the only thing "delusional" regarding Floyd and anything that goes along with him, are his haters who come up with constant excuses about how he wins and can't face that fact that for whatever reason, they do not "like" the P4P best in the sport..

get over it son..

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'Lovin the mutual respect...

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Pacquiao accepts Casamayor's challenge for WBO Lightweight belt
Sun.Star Manila, Tue, 25 Mar 2008
NEW World Boxing Council (WBC) Superfeatherweight champion Manny Pacquiao is willing to face World Boxing Organization (WBO) interim Lightweight champion Joel Casamayor in the ring "if the price is right." "Why not as long as the price is right," said Pacquiao during his courtesy call to Preside... Sun.Star Manila - Pacquiao accepts Casamayor's challenge for WBO Lightweight belt

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NATE CAMPBELL: "BE A MAN AND FIGHT"

"Everybody wanna talk about fighting somebody else whenever my name is mentioned," stated WBA, IBF & WBO lightweight champion Nate Campbell as he made it perfectly clear that he wants to face his WBO mandatory challenger, linear lightweight champion Joel Casamayor, despite the fact that nobody is eager to mention his own name as a future opponent. Check out what he had to say about Casamayor, Pacquiao and more.

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[Julius Rain]

nate vs casa rematch, nate wants to fight his mandatory. will casa accept?

[Macho]

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