Devon Alexander v Lucas Matthysse - thoughts?

[boxingbantz]

lucas is a beast if devon stops him, the bradley loss will be forgiven. go devon!

What are the odds on this fight?

Alexander is a healthy favourite. Only a few books so far out (im in the UK), best odds ive seen for either fighter is 2/5 Alexander and 11/4 Matthysse

11/4 is giving money away.

Gonna stick a few quid on that.

[Rantcatrat]

Have either of these guys ever been knocked down or out? Amateur or Professional?

[Rantcatrat]

For the people who think Lucas Matthysse will win, will you explain your reasons? To me, other than Matthysse's punching power, Devon is superior in pretty much every single category: foot speed, defense, movement, hand speed, balance, coordination, combination punching, ring generalship. Plus the fight is in Alexander's hometown. The deck is stacked against Matthysse. People are down on Alexander because he essentially quit against Bradley and I think they are underrating him because of it.

I don't see how Matthysse wins unless he catches Alexander. Devon plays it safe and moves around all night and he wins on the cards or he catches Matthysse coming in and knocks him out. Why am I totally off here?

[boxingbantz]

He was also very poor against Kotelnik who was robbed.

Matthysse is gonna whoop his ass. Gonna work that body until Devon quits likes a bitch. Again.

[J_C]

For the people who think Lucas Matthysse will win, will you explain your reasons? To me, other than Matthysse's punching power, Devon is superior in pretty much every single category: foot speed, defense, movement, hand speed, balance, coordination, combination punching, ring generalship. Plus the fight is in Alexander's hometown. The deck is stacked against Matthysse. People are down on Alexander because he essentially quit against Bradley and I think they are underrating him because of it.

I don't see how Matthysse wins unless he catches Alexander. Devon plays it safe and moves around all night and he wins on the cards or he catches Matthysse coming in and knocks him out. Why am I totally off here?

Its a bit of a pick em but you could say the same about Judah compared to Matthysse and I watched that and I thought Matthysse easily won that on points despite not getting the verdict.

[Pavlik]

I see Lucas running in to a punch maybe an uppercut and getting stopped. Alexander has freakish power himself if he applies it. The stoppage of Urango was not via accumulation, it was 1 punch power.

[armin]

I see Lucas running in to a punch maybe an uppercut and getting stopped. Alexander has freakish power himself if he applies it. The stoppage of Urango was not via accumulation, it was 1 punch power.

Prior to the stopage of urango he wasn't doing all that great against him and looking less than spectacular. I think we took the ko of urango and blew it out of proportion, hell hatton was makin urango look like a fool what five years ago?

[Rantcatrat]

I see Lucas running in to a punch maybe an uppercut and getting stopped. Alexander has freakish power himself if he applies it. The stoppage of Urango was not via accumulation, it was 1 punch power.

Prior to the stopage of urango he wasn't doing all that great against him and looking less than spectacular. I think we took the ko of urango and blew it out of proportion, hell hatton was makin urango look like a fool what five years ago?

To me, the win (er loss) over Zab was overrated. At this stage, Devon is much better than Zab and he barely scraped by against Zab.

Tonight, we'll see.

[#1FightFan]

well, matthysse beat the crap out of alexander. and got robbed again!!!
UNREAL BULLSHIT!!!
alexander showed great heart and tried hard to box, but it wasnt enough. he was pitter patter compared to matthyesses power!
he was hit very hard and often by the argentine. there is no way devon alexander won that fight, and only a fucking retard would think he did~!!
ROBBERY is the word of the day, and something that needs to be looked into, because it makes me sick seeing these great foreign fighters getting ripped off when they performed excellent and won the fight! maidana, matthyess, kotelnik or whatever his name is!

hey fighters, come to fight in The United States Of Corruption!

[Pavlik]

Devon could have at least admitted that Mathysse was the better fighter tonight, embarassing judging from the local judges. the good thing that happened tonight was the affirmation that Lucas is indeed the beast in the division with a better skill set than Maidana.

[armin]

Devon could have at least admitted that Mathysse was the better fighter tonight, embarassing judging from the local judges. the good thing that happened tonight was the affirmation that Lucas is indeed the beast in the division with a better skill set than Maidana.

He may have a better skill set than maidana but on brute force and will id go with maidana I think.

[marbleheadmaui]

Devon could have at least admitted that Mathysse was the better fighter tonight, embarassing judging from the local judges. the good thing that happened tonight was the affirmation that Lucas is indeed the beast in the division with a better skill set than Maidana.

He may have a better skill set than maidana but on brute force and will id go with maidana I think.

I think I would too. That'd be a real bombs away affair.

[Gandalf]

Devon could have at least admitted that Mathysse was the better fighter tonight, embarassing judging from the local judges. the good thing that happened tonight was the affirmation that Lucas is indeed the beast in the division with a better skill set than Maidana.

He may have a better skill set than maidana but on brute force and will id go with maidana I think.

I think I would too. That'd be a real bombs away affair.

For sure, I would love to see them two go at it.

[Rantcatrat]

I just want to formally eat crow in this thread because I was dead wrong on my call. Before the fight, I thought Devon would dominate, but Matthysse clearly won that fight. I don't think Devon redeemed himself with that performance. Now we can just more honestly judge him for what he is.

[boxingbantz]

How the FUCK did the first judge score it 96-93 to Alexander? Absoloutely scandalous. I scored it 96-93 to Matthysse and I was generous to Alexander in one of the rounds! Feel sorry for Lucas Matthysse. He should still be unbeaten. That's two genuine robberies within a year.