Open Thread - Friday Fights

And that could really be Bayaar’s best hope. Bayaar is teak tough and throws hard punches, and if Sexton isn’t conditioned enough, he could be in for a very long fight.

I hope diaz pulls out a win tonight. He really does need this victory. Brown Pride !

Walks in to the Flash Gordon theme song. How appropriate.

Bayaar has an interesting getup walking out to the ring. I assume some type of Mongolian royalty piece.

Sexton comes out somewhat aggressive right off the bat, throwing a few punches but not really landing. Both guys feinting a lot and throwing out little feel out jabs, but not much landing for either. Sexton comes in and lands a couple of shots to Bayaar’s head. Bayaar counters with a left hand. Sexton moving a LOT more than Bayaar. Sexton rushes in and Bayaar catches him on the way in. Bayaar with a big left hook that gets mostly blocked. Sexton has a cut already on his nose.

Bayaar with a left hook. The two exchange and both land, but Bayaar probably gets the best of it. Sexton with a couple of tentative jabs. Bayaar with another left hook. Bayaar’s looking a lot like Kid DIamond so far, but frankly, Sexton isn’t doing much to avoid his looping punches.

10-9 Bayaar

Bayaar with a couple of right hands. He’s really just trying to dominate Sexton, but Sexton isn’t backing down, for better or for worse. The two exchange, and now Sexton probably lands the stronger shots. Sexton with a couple pawing jabs, keeping Bayaar at a distance. Bayaar with a big left hook to the body. Sexton with a combo that misses. Bayaar tries for a hook, but Sexton times him and counters with a straight right.

Sexton tries coming in and throwing a few punches, and Sexton avoids the shots. Bayaar them proceeds to try to bully the kid with a headlock.

Sextion with a right to the body. Then he fights the head with a straight right. Sexton is starting to find his rhythm a bit, but Bayaar is still coming forward with some solid combos. I gave the round to Sexton, but it was close and I could see it going either way.

19-19

Bayaar is now the favorite in the live betting.

Bayaar comes out strong with some right hands. Sexton tries for the 1-2 but misses, then connects with a body shot and ties up. Bayaar stalking forward, and Sexton is trying to potshot him, but isn’t connecting much. Bayaar with a HUGE right hook that knocks out Sexton’s mouthpiece. Bayaar with another big left and Sexton counters with a quick right. Bayaar just seems a lot tougher than Sexton, and now Sexton is starting to walk into Bayaar’s shots.

Bayaar looks to be getting more and more confident, and he’s just exploiting the holes in Sexton’s defense. Sexton now trying to be more aggressive again, and Bayaar is looking to counter. Bayaar throws a couple more big shots that miss. Strong round for Bayaar.

29-28 Bayaar

Bayaar back to stalking forward. Sexton circling backwards and occasionally lunging forward. If he keeps doing that, eventually he’s just going to walk straight into one of Bayaar’s wild shots. Bayaar with a straight left that lands. Sexton not really landing a whole lot, and Bayaar is ducking out of the way of most of his shots.

THe two wrestle in the middle of the ring. Both guys boxing a bit more, but neither one really landing much of consequence. Sexton with a decent counter right. Sexton with a hook to the body. THe two flurry a bit at the end of the round. Bayaar’s round mostly on aggression, but not much that round.

39-37 Bayaar

Jesus, Sexton, get with it.

Bayaar is now a 2-1 favorite. The commentators have given Bayaar every round.

The two mix it up in the middle of the ring and Bayaar lands a few body shots. Sexton with a quick right hand. Sexton with another quick shot he picks off, but he’s only throwing punches one or two at a time, while Bayaar is firing away with combos. Secton with a jab, but Bayaar with a right hook over the top. Bayaar with a hook to the body, and then he does some kind of crazy dance in the middle of the ring. That gets Sexton out of his shell, and he lands a good shot or two, but Bayaar counters him with a big left that connects solid and wobbles Sexton a bit. Sexton just can’t seem to figure out how to land shots on Bayaar without eating a few of Bayaar’s in return.

10-9 Bayaar

49-36 Bayaar

I mean this wouldn’t be so bad for Sexton’s career prospects if Bayaar was good.

Sexton with a 1-2 that connects, but Bayaar comes back with a couple hooks of his own that connect harder. Bayaar’s punches are looking a little bit straighter now. The two exchange and both throw combinations in the middle of the ring, but while Bayaar is able to slip a few of the punches, Sexton just doesn’t move his head, eats every single shot and loses his mouthpiece again.

A couple of nice right hands by Sexton, but Bayaar comes back with a couple of his own. Bayaar with sort of a hop-step 1-2 that’s half bolo and half superman punch. Bayaar is just brimming with confidence at this point, and the normally arrogant Sexton seems to be out of answers.

Bayaar 10-9
Bayaar 59-55

Bayaar is now an 8-1 favorite.

Bayaar with a couple of right hands that land. Sexton comes in, but Bayaar throws a straight shot and just beats him to the punch. Bayaar looks to be slowing down a bit, but so does Sexton, who’s never been this far into a fight before. The two are just winging shots in the middle of the ring, and while Sexton landed a number to he body, Bayaar landed the flashier shots.

This is sort of starting to look like a bizarro version of Andrade-Tsypko. Bayaar is completely in control of this one.

Bayaar 10-9
Bayaar 69-64

Feed cut our for a bit, so Can’t judge the full round. Bayaar needs to tie his shoes, and after Sexton is able to get into a bit more of a shythm for the first time since the second round. Bayaar with a couple more hooks to close out the round.

Probably Bayaar 10-9
Bayaar 79-73

Well, it’s gonna get fun!

Secton comes out and he’s going for broke now. He knows he can’t win on rounds any more. Sexton causes a cut on Bayaar, probably on a but, but under UK rules, it would be a TKO win for Sexton if the fight is stopped due to the cut. That’s really a horrible cut, just dripping down Bayaar’s face and into his eye. This is starting to turn into a war. Bayaar now backing down under pressure and trying to counter and mount a body attack. Bayaar ducks down low and buries his head into Sexton’s body so Sexton can’t find his eye, and is pounding his body.

Sexton trying to throw nonstop,m but Bayaar is countering him and probably landing the better punches. Every time Sexton throws, Bayaar ducks way down and the punch just slides down his back.

Both guys seem a bit worn out now, and there’s a lot of wrestling going on now. Sexton throwing more punches, but not landing anything. Sexton finally catches Bayaar with a huge left hook that nails Bayaar in the eye. I still think Bayaar won this round, but it was close.

Bayaar also has a HUGE welt under the same eye, getting near baseball sized.

Bayaar 89-82

“Showing stamina, too, Sexton.”

Uh.

Bayaar’s cut seems to be closed up pretty well. Sexton comes back out trying to maul him again, but doesn’t land much, and what does land is glancing. Sexton with some combos, but Bayaar is bobbing and weaving through the punches. The two lean on each other inside and Sexton pummels Bayaar to the body. If he had fought like this early on, he might not have such a huge deficit right now.

Sexton rushes in and Bayaar catches him on the way in. You’d think he’d remember to move his head after the 30th or so time that happened. Bayaar just wildly throwing big hooks now, and nothing is landing. Sexton is looking tired and Bayaar lands another good left hook, which has been his money punch all night.

Sexton with a number of shots to the body, but Bayaar is throwing a few back and actually loading up on his. Sexton with a couple of hooks that land. The two are wrestling inside, then breaking, then throwing a few wild shots, rinsing and repeating, a little reminiscent of the late rounds of Cazares-Nashiro.

I think Sexton took that round with his body work.

Bayaar 98-92

The two wrestle on the inside some more. Sexton with a few body shots. Bayaar with a couple of hooks, although they don’t have as much on them anymore. Sexton coming forward and throwing punches, but not really landing a whole lot. Bayaar mostly just trying to protect that eye now. Sexton catches him with an uppercut, which might be the first uppercut I’ve seen from either fighter all night. Bayaar with a digging hook to the body. The two are inside again, both throwing lots of punches, but neither landing much. This inside fighting has completely taken Bayaar out of his rhythm, and you have to wonder how the fight might have been different if Sexton had been fighting inside from the beginning.

Sexton 10-9
Bayaar 107-102

Sexton’s trainer doesn’t seem to know this is the last round.

Sexton comes to get Bayaar on the inside again. Bayaar with a move where he literally throws Sexton’s head out of the way, allowing him to get a distance for a little bit. The two keep bumping heads now. Bayaar with slowed but harder punches, while Sexton is just punching nonstop. Not a whoile lot hurting Bayaar, but at least he;s trying. Sexton is just throwing shot after shot. Bayaar counters with a nice hook to the body. Not really combination punching here, but Sexton is just throwing about a punch a second like clockwork.

Bayaar seems to be a bit stunned now. Bayaar is really hanging on. Bayaar has given up on throwing punches, and now he’s just trying to clinch and hang on for dear life, long enough to prevent a cuts stoppage or keep from getting seriously hurt. Sexton’s best round of the night, and he came close to pulling it out at the end. Spirited performance by both though.

Sexton 10-9
Bayaar 116-112

Final punch stats:
108-667 Sexton
131-517 Bayaar

116-112 Bayaar
116-112 Sexton
114-114

WE HAVE A DRAW

Shocking. A draw. Bayaar clearly won.

Dave Parris is awful.

At least he gets to keep his title, for whatever thats worth.

Ha, I like this style of post-fight interview, sitting together like they’re good buds. Maybe we’ll get that with Khan and Paulie.

The kid in the photo looks my like paper delivery boy.

No one watching the Arce fight on Top Rank boxing? Arce just KO’d his opponent.

sanchez moved from Puerto Rico to Buffalo, NY….talk about climate change! Both these guys are afraid to hit the other guy, it seems.

What a idiot

Sanchez is retarted..he thinks by acting stupid he will win the fight..he needs to grow a pair and box

Good. I was wondering if the judges would get it right

First ever HD Shobox broadcast. New music and new intro.

Not much of a fight but a solid win for sanchez.

Turned pro at 17, still pretty young and undefeated, but since going pro, he’s missed time gettng shot, getting stabbed and getting arrested. Recently moved to try to keep out of trouble, so we’ll see if that works.

OK Tarver we know YOU think the IBO is legit, but nobody else does.

DVR’d the earlier fight(s) on FNF… worth watching at all?

R1 Diaz

Paris docked a point for a borderline low blow where Santiago acted.

R2 Ngoudjo
19-19

Ngoudjo- 10-9

Paris is outclassing Santiago offensively, but Paris really needs to work on his defense. He has some slickness, but gets hit by way too many unnecessary punches still. Was that way a few years ago too, but I would have hoped he would have improved in that regard by now.

R3 Diaz
29-28 Diaz
Close fight, not much happening, Diaz doing a good job of staying outside

Ndoujo ( 30-27)

Saantiago outworked the hell out of Paris that round.

Jesus. I like Vernon Paris but that third round was terrible.

R4 Diaz
39-37 Diaz
I like Diaz’s defense

Woohh next week espn friday night fights is coming to my city..I’m taking the camera :)

He keeps doing that, eventually someone will catch it. But literally he sticks it way out there like Nate Campbell vs. Robbie Peden, or Mayorga vs. Tito.

Ted and I have talked about Vernon a little on the site here and there. He’s right that Paris does things you just don’t see anymore, but tonight is showing that he’s not so good at it that he’s going to get away with it against good fighters, IMO. Maybe I’m wrong.

But the round was closer than the announcers made out to be. Paris landed the best punches of the round by a long shot, but Santiago probably threw three times as many punches.

R5 Ngoudjo
48-47 Diaz
More punches landing for Ngoudjo now

Paris took that one, but santiago did his best to steal it near the end.

Paris backhanded him twice.

R6 Diaz
58-56 Diaz
Ngoudjo started off strong, then Diaz landed well the last two min.

But I could see the busier Santiago winning it. I thought Paris blocked most of his punches for the first two minutes, but Paris just has very little left at this point.

57-56 Paris

R7 Ngoudjo
67-66 Diaz

Maybe this is off topic, but the girls on SHO cards are smoking. A cut above the normal boxing circuit stuff.

It is. Hard paying attention to 2 fights at the same time

So much for Camacho’s farewell tour

But I could see someone giving it to Santiago on workrate. 67-65 Paris. Santiago’s corner thinks it’s tied right now.

Reckless abandon to start the round

R8 Diaz
77-75 DIaz

Ndoujo does A LOT of clinching

Which is wider than Farhood by two rounds. But it wasn’t a cakewalk, and it probably should have been.

R9 Diaz
87-84 Diaz
good round

77-74 Santiago
76-75 Paris
76-75 Paris

The crowd boos. Which isn’t unexpected. Santiago threw a lot more punches, and it’s hard to see how many of those punches Paris was blocking or slipping from the crowd as opposed to from ringside or on TV.

People can boo all they want but Paris deserved the win. Barely, but he deserved the win.

I was looking at boxing news over at Google and I gotta say, Yuri Foreman being a rabbinical scholar is getting about as old as “Juan Diaz is in college!”

R10 Ngoudjo
96-94 Diaz

OK, I only watched part of that fight, but 99-91???

97-93 Diaz
97-93 Diaz
99-91 Diaz

Good cards. Diaz won it fairly easy

Diaz wins !! Good fight and good win

The parts I saw I thought both looked pretty decent. Diaz definitely looked better than he has since losing to Juan Diaz. Ngoudjo looked … about the same as always.

Given that Dzinziruk hasn’t fought in a year and a half… nah, he should cruise.

Alright, Menefee. Stop telling me about their combined records. Dawson’s 34 wins are shit.

And much appreciated. When it got to the point that FNF was in HD, Shobox no longer had any excuse.

Isnt that where Brian Brock is moving to?

I had no idea.

Dawson needs to get inside more to have a chance. Dzin will always outbox him from the outside.

And taps himself on the forehead every time after he’s done throwing punches.

where’s james kirkland when you need him?

what time does the Kat v. Mitchell fight start tomorrow in the US?

But not at all exciting. He’s like a southpaw version of Sturm with a higher workrate.

The commentators say they love the stoppage. It just seemed abritrary to me. Dawson had no chance of winning, but still.