Carlos Zarate-Alphonso Zamora - Mad. Brilliant. Fact.

[Fenster]

Was reading this from Steve Bunce and literally was in tears (his boxing writing is excellent, always a sense of how completely nuts the whole business/sport is).

Richard Steele, the referee, looked jittery as he pulled them together before the opening bell. “It was a helluva night,” Steele told me. The fight started, there was no hurry, nothing landed until 53 seconds when a fat geezer wearing Y-fronts and a vest entered the ring and came between the two boxers. It was the greatest Mexican stand-off in the history of sport. Nobody moved for a few seconds, there was silence, then laughter and then extreme violence.

When the riot police, about a dozen of them, with their anger exposed and their sticks waving, invaded the ring they grabbed the smiling man in the baggy underpants and launched him over the top rope. It turns out he was not a super hero and certainly could not fly. The fight started again as the riot boys pummelled the man in the ringside seats.

- Brilliant.


Gennady Golovkin and David Lemieux’s perfect storm sparks memories of a Mexican battle in California - Steve Bunce | Boxing | Sport | The Independent

[beenKOed]

Was reading this from Steve Bunce and literally was in tears (his boxing writing is excellent, always a sense of how completely nuts the whole business/sport is).

Richard Steele, the referee, looked jittery as he pulled them together before the opening bell. “It was a helluva night,” Steele told me. The fight started, there was no hurry, nothing landed until 53 seconds when a fat geezer wearing Y-fronts and a vest entered the ring and came between the two boxers. It was the greatest Mexican stand-off in the history of sport. Nobody moved for a few seconds, there was silence, then laughter and then extreme violence.

When the riot police, about a dozen of them, with their anger exposed and their sticks waving, invaded the ring they grabbed the smiling man in the baggy underpants and launched him over the top rope. It turns out he was not a super hero and certainly could not fly. The fight started again as the riot boys pummelled the man in the ringside seats.

- Brilliant.


Gennady Golovkin and David Lemieux’s perfect storm sparks memories of a Mexican battle in California - Steve Bunce | Boxing | Sport | The Independent

Funny all the way around starting with Steele's nice head of hair and giving them instructions while they are facing their own corners.
Watching two fighters who believe they are invincible is always a pleasure, a real slug fest. The fight was terrific and everything else like extra frosting on a perfect cake. Wild!

[Bill Paxtom]

Now that was a great non-title bout.

Thrilling for every second. Bombs Away !!!

I'll say one thing. Carlos Zarate could take one 'Hell-of-a-Punch'.

Alfonso Zamora hit him with bombs, and could not dent Carlos.

[beenKOed]

Now that was a great non-title bout.

Thrilling for every second. Bombs Away !!!

I'll say one thing. Carlos Zarate could take one 'Hell-of-a-Punch'.

Alfonso Zamora hit him with bombs, and could not dent Carlos.

All those head shots Zarate and Zamora took had me wincing, but the body shots were as bad or worse. They were both relentless to the body but Zarate more so.

I am not expecting that kind of sustained action in the Golovkin vs Lemieux fight. I hope it goes four rounds at least, I want to see Golovkin tested.

[Master]

Forget the fight what about Fan Man? That was funny.

[Bill Paxtom]

~ The Fight of the Champions ~

* The Battle of the 'Z' Boys ~