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Don't know. Callum will be tied up in the World Boxing Super Series at least for one bout. The series starts today with Usyk VS Huck (cruiserweight) and continues for eight consecutive weeks but ultimately becomes one of my biggest boxing disappointments because no American TV deal could be negotiated.
As for last night's bout, I thought Benavidez won fairly comfortably even given the knockdown he suffered in the last round (he wasn't hurt), but one judge had him losing 116-111 (that judge must have had Gavril at 10-1). Despite that score, the favorite got a 117-111, 116-111, 111-116 majority decision and avoided a huge upset.Comment
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How is nobody here talking about the Chocolitito rematch tonight?Comment
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Wow, Chocolitito totally destroyed.
HBO has to erase him from their hype machine.Comment
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The Super flyweight/Junior bantamweights just got a lot more interesting.
For the record I guess Srisaket Sor Rungvisai's translated name is WISAKSIL WANGEK.Comment
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I guess the first fight was no fluke.
Chocolatito got absolutely destroyed tonight. Amazing that less than a year ago Gonzalez was considered to be the #1 PFP fighter in the world and possibly an all-time great.
I'm sure HBO will all over Rungvisai now.Comment
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In other boxing news, looks like Adrien Broner finally got himself a KO win.
Unfortunately, it was on the streets of Vegas and appears he sucker-punched a random dude for no reason at all.
"The Problem" is doing his best to live up to his monicker.
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No defense by Chocolitito to prevent the final KO punch.
EDIT: Follow the clip from about 21 seconds on as it goes slo-mo. It looks like he closed his eyes before the punch came in. I realize he was already hurt but he was struggling the entire fight.
So when does Rungvisai fight the Japenese legend (Inoue)?Last edited by JayBee74; 09-16-2017, 01:50 AM.Comment
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I laughed my a** off at this post, mostly because I thought you were serious about AB getting a KO win (in the ring). I was like, "huh, I had no idea he fought last night", before reading the rest of the post....
Boxing can be a pretty heartless sport. I'm still stunned by what happened last night - I mean, we watched a guy go from 100-to-0 in 1 fight. It wasn't even a competition, and apparently, by what the announcers were saying, Chocolatito didn't seem right even in the fighter interviews. Weird/sad all around. Also, was it just me or did Chocolatito look sorta bloated last night? I mean, in the face. Looked off to me, but could just be me.
On a only very-slightly related note, there was an old PC boxing game called "ABC Wide World of Sports Boxing" (I think it was also released as "TV Sports Boxing", for some bizarre reason) which came out in the early 1990's, which to this day remains the most-played boxing game ever in my life. My buddies and I played that thing to death on our parents' old 386-era PC's. Anyway, I always used to complain that when previously unstoppable juggernauts (like Killer Knauer or Big Jer Allnite, for your aficionados) fell off, they'd go over the cliff seemingly overnight, in 1 fight. For example, you wouldn't be able to even hang with them without getting KO'd in 2-3 rounds, but then suddenly you would beat the living daylights out of them like they were Glass Joe all of a sudden if you caught them at the right moment of their career decline.
The point of all this is that I used to complain bitterly that the game was really unrealistic and stupid in that regard, but as I get older, I'm starting to realize that's not actually all that far off from how many boxer's actual career trajectories go. Every time I see something like I saw last night, or something like Sergio Martinez suddenly getting old and feeble before our very eyes over the course of 1 bout, for whatever reason my mind always goes back to that game.Comment
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I was pretty much inoculated from being stunned by the way Chocolitito was handily dealt with for the first three rounds. I kind of saw it coming. He was physically and mentally getting a medium sized beating.
He actually becomes somewhat interesting if he continues to mix it up with the 115 guys. Who wouldn't want to see him fight Inoue? On the other hand who thinks he could beat Inoue, which was a given one year ago?Comment
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The passage of time has affected Chocolatito more than anything. Little guys usually don't fare well past 30 or with big jumps in weight, both of which Gonzalez have experienced.
He's past his prime as an elite pound-for-pound fighter. Sor Rungvisai proved that.Xbox Live: pk4425Comment
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Chocolatito was just one fight into a jump from 112 to 115 when he faced Rungvisai the first time. That's probably comparable to a move from 140 to 147 which is a pretty big factor. Add PK's point about past the 30 age barrier and maybe throw in your point about Rungvisai having his number too. But Rungvisai has had a lot of numbers-44-4-1 with 40 KOs?? Give Chocolatito credit for going up in weight to face this guy and probably winning the first fight.Comment
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