Rigondeaux beats Addy; Hamer decimates Ali; Malignaggi-Khan may be in the works
by Brickhaus on Dec 16, 2009 11:22 PM EST
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On the main event of tonight's Broadway Boxing card, uber-prospect Guillermo Rigondeaux cruised to a boring and predictable decision over Lante Addy. For about the first 20 seconds, it was almost a fight, but the southpaw Rigondeaux set up a big left straight with a right jab that knocked the hapless African down almost immediately. From there on out, it was pure survival mode for Addy for 8 more excruciating rounds. WIth the crowd consistently booing, Rigondeaux was just throwing a judge jab constantly while occasionally throwing a scoring punch, and Addy was mostly just shelling up or running. This is what happens when you have a fighter who's content to win rounds and a fighter who's content to stay on his feet. While Guillermo managed to win the wide unanimous decision, 80-71 on all three cards, I have to wonder if this is what he'll look like when he steps up in class. His opponent was willing to show him nothing, and Rigondeaux reverted to amateur form, throwing punches to score and with no bad intent whatsoever. Guillermo moves to 4-0 and remains on the fast track to a title, although now I have more doubts about whether he can ever become a star.
On the co-feature, Tor Hamer absolutely destroyed Nasir Ali in one of the sadder displays I've seen in a while. Legitimate gatekeeper Domonic Jenkins was to be his opponent, and Ali took the fight on a day's notice. Only a few seconds into the first round, Hamer nailed Ali with a left to the body and a right to the head, and Ali went down in a crumple. He got up a couple seconds later, but just stayed leaning against the ropes, facing the crowd, and apparently refusing to continue. Seconds after the fight ended, Lou DiBella, who was schmoozing it up with the crowd, asked me what happened, and when I told him what happened, he started shouting "WITHHOLD HIS PURSE!" Which is about what he deserves. Hamer moves to 8-0, and hopefully we'll get to see him in there with a real opponent in the near future.
Elsewhere on the card, 8-0 Gabriel Bracero defeated 6-3 Carl McNickles (on Boxrec, it says McNickols, but his trunks said McNickles) in the bout of the night. While the slippery Bracero clearly had Carl outclassed, McNickles tried to make it a fight, and the two went to war a few times during the bout. Bracero doesn't look world-class, but it looks like he could be an exciting regional-level fighter. Also on the undercard, relatively unimpressive Luis Del Valle scored a TKO2 against Noe Lopez when Lopez broke his hand and was unable to continue. Also, amateur star Christian Martinez knocked out Gabriel Morris in spectacular fashion. While he wasn't fighting the best opposition in the world, his talent was pretty apparent, and I'd say he has the highest upside of the undercard fighters.
The biggest news of the night, however, probably came from the mouth of Lou DiBella. Paulie Malignaggi was at the fight, hamming it up with the crowd and looking extremely unscathed for a guy who just fought five days ago. DiBella came into the ring after the Hamer fight, and said that he's trying to make a fight between Paulie Malignaggi and Amir Khan next. This seems to make perfect sense, and is a good way to make some money for his fighter. Khan has only fought twice on US TV, once on a small pay per view, and once on the undercard of the worst rated WCB (Calzaghe-Manfredo) in HBO history. He's been saying he wants to make a splash in the US market, and Malignaggi might be the perfect opponent to do it with. He has a name, he can bring a house, and he can't crack an egg. Now that Khan has changed his style at the credit of Freddie Roach, I think he can outbox just about anyone. But his chin is still as bad as anyone's. Ever. Malignaggi is a notoriously light hitter, and while he'd probably lose to Khan, it's a good way to get another HBO fight, and even 'hands of glass' Malignaggi might be able to knock out 'chin of glass' Khan. Hopefully they can make progress with this, because it's certainly a fight I'd be interested in seeing.
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If Paulie KO's Khan
I might laugh for weeks on end if this happens, also we could stop talking about Khan, forever. Also, wasn’t Roach there when DiBella was running off about Khan? I’m curious what Freddie was thinking. On paper this is a great matchup for Khan and horrible for Paulie, but they don’t fight on paper do they?
Roach was there
But not out in the arena. He was back in Rigo’s dressing room.
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"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
Khan chin is bad, but it's not THAT bad
Malinaggi has 5 ko’s in 25 or so fights. Come on! Amir Khan is easily one of the most exciting prospects (if you can still call him that) in the world.
Willie Limond, a super featherweight with 8 KOs in 35 fights, managed to knock him down
His chin is pretty bad. Then again, Kotelnik punches harder than Malignaggi.
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"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
Paulie should be quick enough to actually tag Khan with a couple unlike Kotelnik, who is slower than Paulie, especially in his most recent fights.
by Waldo Rastel on Dec 17, 2009 4:23 AM EST up reply actions
If Khan can’t stand up to being tagged by Paulie, that would be time to give it up. I think he can and its the absolutely ideal step-up fight before considering a Maidana.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘’Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'’ (Bernard Hopkins)
Frankly I think Khan outboxes
Malignaggi really nicely and then loses to either Maidana, Bradley, Pacquiao (why on earth does any one think that would ever be a good idea?) or Ricky Hatton. I’m not vertian about Hatton but I still reckon I woudl favour him.
"Honey i forgot to duck" - Jack Dempsey
by Drunken cutman on Dec 17, 2009 9:49 AM EST up reply actions
Other observations from the fight
- Stood next to Danny Jacobs. He’s listed as being 6’1", but he really can’t be more than 5’10" 1/2.
- Malignaggi sure knows how to work a crowd. Probably talked to half the people in there. As I mentioned in the other thread, he picked Pacquiao to knock out Mayweather
- Got to talk to Steve Farhood a little. He reminded me to watch this weekend’s Shobox featuring Fernando Guerrero, who he’s excited about. Topic moved to the Super Six, and he said that he doesn’t blame Taylor for not pulling out (not necessarily in those words). But he did say in exactly these words, “he looked OKAAAY in the Abraham fight…”
- Rigondeaux doesn’t look like he’s changed a lick under Roach. Pretty damn identical to what I’m used to seeing from him, only more boring. Might as well have been an eight round amateur bout I was watching.
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
I really want to see Rigondeaux take more action during the year. For example Lara took 7 fights this year, because they were mostly against scrubs, as opposed to Rigondeaux who only took 3. Albeit Rigondeaux only came to the US recently, he should try to take as much action as possible. It is a good sign that he is already scheduled for another fight, but I think with his amateur background, he should be moving up the ranks a little quicker.
by Waldo Rastel on Dec 17, 2009 4:29 AM EST up reply actions
Rigondeaux had some managerial bullshit to settle too. Honestly I said this before and semi-argued with someone about it, Rigondeaux probably only needs 10-12 pro fights before they get him a title shot if he turns out as good as he’s supposed to be.
Bad Left Hook
"If bulls**t was poetry, Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini's name would be Shakespeare." -- Dennis Rappaport
by Scott Christ on Dec 17, 2009 7:02 AM EST up reply actions
Don’t miss that one. Guerrero is a comer.- Rigondeaux-big deal!? I don’t like him as muchas his hype.
Hammer will get hammered the first time he fights a non-corpse.
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant"
---Vernon Forrest 2006
by The Midnight Rambler on Dec 17, 2009 9:58 AM EST up reply actions
“Hammer will get hammered the first time he fights a non-corpse.” Who was he fightling last night, a vampire or a zombie LOL. Paulie Mags actually stunned Diaz last weekend, but Paulie looked more stunned than Diaz…he’s not used to hurting people. Paulie and Haye are two guys who have used their mouths more than their gloves to get big fights. I guess the squeaky wheel get the grease. But whatever, both guys can box. If Paulie KO’s Khan, which is highly unlikely, Khan would be disgraced forever.
I get the distinct impression
that Paulie on TV is a persona, sort of like how Money May is a persona but everyone close to him says he’s not actually like that in real life. A few folks in the game have told me that Paulie thinks the reason he gets fights is because of his mouth, and thus he likes to run it off all the time, but that he’s a pretty laid back guy when he’s off camera.
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
Where was this at Brick? Sounds like I didn’t miss much ring action on this card, but if you think of it next time, shoot me an email, and I’ll probably come out for the fight too. I often miss out on smallish cards like this in NYC, and I’d like to change that.
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
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I just saw your post below about the fight. Still wish I heard about these kinds of cards sooner.
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
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