Bad Left Hook Live Boxing Results and Commentary: Erislandy Lara v. Willie Lee

for what will surely be an empty fight thread

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Margarito talk now

BTW, if anyone’s interested, Showtime Too will have Classic Boxing on Friday night. ARTHUR ABRAHAM-MAHIR ORAL.

CLASSIC!

Teddy immediately mentions Resto-Collins when asked about the Margarito case.

 Tim Bradley looks like Miguel Cotto….
C’mon ESPN it is not that hard to get the right picture next to the correct name. You guys screwed this up last FNF as well…

I can’t believe we’re 17 minutes in, counting studio time, and not one “communist regime” mention.

Journalism, it’s actually happening tonight

They’re mentioning the win over Pascal in the amateurs, but not mentioning losses to Gennady Golovkin and Andre Dirrell (he also beat Dirrell). He fought middleweight as an amateur. Also beat Karoly Balzsay!

9 opponents of PAines have 0 wins. This is a new low for padded records.

Despaigne is just a bigger man. Good right by Despaigne. It looks early like he can push Paines around at will. Left hook by Despaigne clips Paines. Another left hook, and that one landed a bit better, but still not square. Poor Paines is way out of his depth. This is an ugly mismatch with bad intentions. Paines is getting battered by a remarkably superior fighter. Tessitore keeps talking about Paines’ trainer saying he’s “the real deal.” BFD, Joe, what do you expect he’d say? “Honestly, we’re not even KIND OF ready for this fight, but it’s decent money.”

Despaigne 10-9

Paines continues to get dominated. BIG left hook and down goes Paines! That was a clean, hard shot. This won’t last long if Despaigne wants to end it. Paines, bless his heart, is trying his best. He’s getting hammered, though. But he’s landing counters here and there. He’s got some guts.

Despaigne 10-8
Despaigne 20-17

Big right uppercut by Despaigne, and he keeps throwing, but Paines is there throwing back. I like this referee. He makes no unnecessary motions whatsoever, plus he has a terrific chin beard.

Body shot by Despaigne. He continues to pretty easily dominate, but he’s not really pushing the gas pedal much.

Despaigne 10-9
Despaigne 30-26

Get ur money ready Scott!

Willie Lee believes he’s Lara’s toughest opponent. Lara has fought Danny Perez, Grady Brewer, Edwin Vazquez, Jose Varela, Darnell Boone…

I love doing RBR for these fights. I’d actually be racking up more comments without it. I could do things like go OOOH! and (NAME) IN TROUBLE.

Atlas is critiquing a little bit so that he has anything to talk about. Paines has some grit. This is watchable and I’m glad to be seeing actual fighting instead of Margarito in a suit looking pensive.

Despaigne 10-9
Despaigne 40-35

I’d never seen Despaigne before… very accurate and those punches seem very heavy and solid…I think dude could go far.

Despaigne throwing, but Paines cracks him back with a right. Despaigne is cut badly. That’s a biiiig cut outside of his right eye and bleeding a good amount.

Accidental headbutt is the ruling. Right outside of the right eye. Fight will go on, let’s see if Despaigne closes the show now.

They crack heads again just moments later on the other side of Despaigne’s dome. Despaigne is staying away from him as the blood just pours. I expect Despaigne might want this to go to the cards given how bad the cut is and the fact that he won’t want to sit out a long time waiting for it to heal.

Uppercut with the left hand by Despaigne, and Paines takes it well. Referee almost causes a foul from Paines and Teddy’s ready to criticize. (Rightly so, mind you.)

Despaigne 10-9
Despaigne 50-44

Probably Paines’ best round. Or Despaigne’s worst. However you want to put it.

Replay shows the clear clashing of heads. They just came together full force, side of head to side of head.

Atlas is starting to turn around on Paines’ trainer having a lot of confidence. I am, too. He’s not here to get rolled over, that’s for sure. He’s doing his best. Despaigne is easily outboxing him, but he’s not discouraging him.

Despaigne 10-9
Despaigne 60-53

I’m watching FNF through a stream in the UK and right now I’m watching a dancing dodo commercial.

Despaigne isn’t looking for the stoppage. Just continues to easily outbox Paines, who’s just a bit too crude and small for him.

Despaigne 10-9
Despaigne 70-62

So close to a full-blown diet analogy….c’mon Teddy you know you want to,

DESPAIGNE JUST THREW A DOUBLE PUNCH. THEY DIDN’T EVEN CALL IT. HE THREW A DOUBLE PUNCH. HE GOT A BICYCLE.

Despaigne showboating a lot and trying to shove Paines around. He hits and moves out when he should really hit and finish Paines off. Paines is getting tagged every time he comes in now.

Despaigne 10-9
Despaigne 80-71

Some frustrated body language there after landing those uppercuts

Glen Johnson would take this Cuban into deep waters and drown him.

Hahaha I think both guys really like this ref.

Referee got popped last round. I missed that one. Goddamn it. HE GOT A BICYCLE.

Wow, Joe, ease up. Are you telling me that this old guy in Monroe, Louisiana refereeing a mediocre (being nice) fight ISN’T one of the best in the world at what he does? HE GOT A BICYCLE.

Continues to be easy street for Despaigne.

Despaigne 10-9
Despaigne 90-80

C

Summer time and the livin’ was easy and all that, but Despaigne didn’t much impress me tonight. This is a physical mismatch that’s also a gross mismatch in terms of talent and experience, and he just seemed like he didn’t have any desire to do much with this. Great crowd, though — they give it a nice ovation. Paines did his best, Despaigne wins easy, and Despaigne is going to need to step it up to become a real contender.

Despaigne 10-9
Despaigne 100-89

AN’ HE GOT A BICYCLE

I love when they try to make poker all classy-intense. It’s fuckin poker.

BTW I really dug Joe harping on how Despaigne is already ranked by some organizations. Lots of guys are ranked by sanctioning body organizations. And what’s worse is he knows that. I hate when they use information to suit what they need at the moment.

What fight was he watching?

Baaahahaa

Whoa this ring announcer rules

100-89
96-93
99-90

YORDANIS DESPAIGNE by unanimous decision

OK the guy that scored 96-93 (Keith Thibodeaux) is utterly insane. Teddy offers a free examination. Then offers to pay for it. Never change Teddy.

Like someone make note of that. One of the worst scorecards of the year. I don’t even know how the other guy gave Paines a round. What round?

No Chad, you did not win that decision, and it wasn’t even close. You fought hard for maybe one round and clearly got rocked several times by a guy that made you looked old and slow. Take your lumps, get back to the gym, and whup some ass in the rematch.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Nothing against Bernard but I hope Jean Pascal doesn’t fight Hopkins. I’ve had enough of the top light heavyweight fighting old farts when there are young challengers in their prime waiting.

I think Tessitore has been told to not rail on the “communist regime” anymore. Sad for us.

I’ll tell you something. I like Lara a lot, and think he’s super talented, but when I look at his possible big matchups at 154 and consider everyone like they’re all possible, I see him doing pretty well, except I think Alfredo Angulo would just kick his ass. I don’t know what it is. I’m not the world’s biggest Angulo fan, but that matchup seems horrible for Lara. I could see him really crumbling under the pressure instead of using his talents.

Not that that has anything to do with anything.

Oh god Teddy’s on a boat

SAUL

If they tackle each other into the fucking water or Saul gets thrown out of the boat, I quit.

Saul apparently being a mute always makes this EVEN WEIRDER

The fight plans have gotten progressively more gimmicky. I think they might as well roll with this. If they fight in New Orleans, Teddy should try to take out a whole second line with his tactics. BANG!

That didn’t take long.

Lara floors him with a nice combination, a straight left hand getting him to slowly fall on his ass.

Well…

Lee banging back, or rather trying to. Not getting much in. Lara hurts him again. BIG uppercut and beating on Lee, Cole waves it off.

Erislandy Lara TKO-1

Stoppage felt semi-quick, but I say that mainly because I wanted to see the second knockdown. There wasn’t much point in continuing it. Frankly, there wasn’t apparently much point in this matchup.

Building a boxing career is like cooking a good pot of Gumbo, Joe. First you start with the roux. You need to get it to the right color before you move on. This is the amateur career of a fighter, wait until the fighter gets enough seasoning. Then you got to add the rice and cook it. These are your beginning pro fights. Let the fighter get a bunch of practice and get the skills simmering. Then you add the good stuff, steps up in competition. Shimp, bang, sausage, bang, okra, bang. Then finally we’re ready to eat, Joe.

Joe: I’m not sure if I followed that exactly, but I sure am hungry now, Teddy!

is Roger Mayweather."

Four words I always enjoy.

he looked like Wesley Snipes when he was younger

I do not love Roger Mayweather. He is the least appetizing Mayweather, imo.

Luna v Luna was a fight like this, I almost turned off the set, and I’d have missed it

lol so there was another swing-bout war? god damn it :\