Global Boxing Results: Nkosinathi Joyi tops Raul Garcia
by Scott Christ on Mar 26, 2010 11:35 PM EDT
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East London, South Africa: South African Nkosinathi Joyi topped Mexican Raul Garcia to take Garcia's IBF strawweight title and hand him his first loss. This is the first of two big fights in the 105-pound division this weekend, and by far the bigger of the two. Joyi (21-0, 15 KO) won on scores reported as 119-109, 118-110 and 118-110. African shows have recently had a tendency to produce some awful robberies, and I haven't seen any full reports on the fight itself yet, but I'm assuming it's legit. Joyi is a damn good fighter and if he legitimately beat Garcia that wide, even better than I thought he was. Garcia falls to 27-1-1 (16 KO), losing the title in his fifth defense.
Commerce, California: Demetrius Hopkins returned to the ring and predictably outpointed late replacement opponent Jesse Feliciano on Thursday night, winning on scores of 100-90, 100-90 and 100-91. This means someone found a round to score even for Feliciano. Feliciano (15-9-3, 9 KO) is a great guy and as tough as they come, and I know he's only 27, but if there's a guy in boxing who needs to retire for his own good, it's him. He's lost four in a row now and two of those (Kermit Cintron and Andrey Tsurkan) were pretty hellacious beatings. He takes a ton of punishment. Also on this card, Cameron Dunkin/TKO Promotions signee Randy Caballero made his pro debut. The 19-year-old knocked out a can in 49 seconds.
Tokyo, Japan: Charlie Ohta beat Akio Shibata to win the OPBF and Japanese junior middleweight titles via eighth round TKO. Sidney Boquiren has more than I can provide on this fight over at The Boxing Bulletin.
Dagenham, England: Featherweight prospect Joe Murray (7-0, 3 KO) beat veteran Yuri Voronin (27-11-2, 18 KO) over eight rounds. Voronin is 36 and has seen his best days go by, and he was never a world-beater, but that's a nice win for young Murray. 30-year-old Moroccan hype job Yassine El Maachi (12-4, 5 KO) beat another scrub. He's tentatively scheduled to face French scrub Bertrand Aloa (15-6, 1 KO) on April 24 at York Hall.
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Here's a full South African report on Joyi
They said that Joyi completely outclassed" Garcia. And as you may know, the South African newspapers call em as they see em. Their sports journalists aren’t expected to stay neutral the same way American ones are. This is the same newspaper that was calling Hlatswayo-Rodriguez a robbery, and a few weeks ago the same for Rubillar-Budler, so if they say Joyi outclassed his opponent, then he probably really did outclass Garcia.
http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=390592
I really hope they can find a way to make Joyi-Gonzalez. I doubt it ever happens – the money just isn’t there to have two fighters from different sides of the world unify – but at this point, it’s pretty clear that they’re the two best 105 pound fighters in the world, and by a good margin.
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Yeah, I saw they verified the legitimacy of the win. I knew if a SA paper said it was the real deal, it probably was.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 27, 2010 12:48 PM EDT up reply actions
“African shows do have a tendency to produce some awful robberies,” I think that’s bit unfair. I am a rabid South African fan (which is different than being an “African” fan). Some countries in the continent do sometime have questionable shows, but IMO, S.A. is not one of them. Just want to put that out there, because I have done an enourmous amount of reserach on boxing in the Continent of Africa. An accurate analogy might be to say some states (Texas) have questionable shows, but others like (NJ) don’t.
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by The Midnight Rambler on Mar 27, 2010 1:28 PM EDT reply actions
They don’t get many big fights in South Africa, but two recently (Rubillar-Budler and Hlatshwayo-Rodriguez I) were flat robberies by the accounts of their own newspapers and just about anyone who saw the fights.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 27, 2010 1:37 PM EDT up reply actions
I agree on Hlatshwayo-Rodriguez , but don’t judge them on those two. They generally put on good venues.
"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 Mar 27, 2010 1:55 PM EDT reply actions
You’re right — I should have at least said “recently.” I try to avoid judging every fight that takes place in Germany the way some people do, and this should be the same.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 27, 2010 1:58 PM EDT up reply actions
You are being very reasonable today……
"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 Mar 27, 2010 6:47 PM EDT reply actions
I usually am. I’m not always right. Sometimes I’m shit wrong. Wait ’til we get to my Jones-Hopkins preview…
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by Scott Christ on Mar 27, 2010 8:14 PM EDT up reply actions
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