Saturday Worldwide Results - Arce and Mosley with lackluster draws, Soto and N'Dou retain
Los Mochis, Mexico
Lorenzo Parra D10 Jorge Arce - For the second year in a row, Jorge Arce was upset on a Mexican Independence Day card. Or nearly. Parra thoroughly outclassed Arce, circling around the outside and potshotting while Arce could never catch up to him. Bad Left Hook officially scored the fight 98-92 for Parra, and that was generous for Arce. At the end of the fight, no scores were read, and Lupe Contreras just simply stated that "the fight was declared a draw." We'll see if there's any more back story behind that one. Despite very clearly winning, Parra looked thrilled to even get the draw on Mexican soil in a non-title fight with Mexican referees.
Humberto Soto UD12 Fidel Monterrosa - Soto's team has been handpicking creampuff opponents for years, but Monterrosa, a Colombian who was blown out against the only name fighter he's ever faced, gave Soto all he could handle. Quite frankly, Monterrosa just seemed to be much more game than Soto, who seemed out of it this fight, barely doing anything for the first two minutes of every single round. It got really sloppy and ugly late, with both fighters slipping on wet advertising at least a dozen times, multiple low blows, and a round that ended a minute and a half sooner than it should have. Monterrosa scored an official knockdown in the 11th, but there were several other slips that were aided by punches that could have been scored knockdowns by a less forgiving referee, and Monterrosa had Soto on shaky legs several times. The two 115-112 scored for Soto were conceivable if you scored all the close rounds for Soto, but the 118-109 card that only gave the knockdown round to Monterrosa is a leading candidate for worst scorecard of the year. Bad Left Hook scored the fight 115-112 for Monterrosa, with the acknowledgment that Soto was the likely winner because the fight was in Mexico and several of those rounds were very close. However, someone needs to figure out a better way to put ads on the canvas without accumulating moisture, and do it fast. All the slipping really hampered both fighters, and I suspect someone will actually get injured by one of those ads before long.
Omar Chavez KO4 Rodrigo Juarez - Chavez nearly got his first career loss to Juarez a few months back. Juarez is tough and aggressive, but not very good, to say the least. This time around, Chavez was able to mostly win rounds before knocking Juarez out on body shots. Chavez still doesn't look like much. His punches are slow, and he ate a lot of punches from journeyman Juarez once again.
Los Angeles, California
Shane Mosley D12 Sergio Mora - Our full write-up is here.
Saul Alvarez KO6 Carlos Baldomir - Our full write-up is here.
Victor Ortiz KO3 Vivian Harris - Our full write-up is here.
Daniel Ponce de Leon KO3 Antonio Escalante - Our full write-up is here.
Birmingham, England
Nathan Cleverly TKO10 Karo Murat - Our full write-up is here. While he didn't fight smart, Cleverly really stole the show on this one, and the fight was way more entertaining than it had any right to be on paper. Cleverly is now the mandatory to face Juergen Braehmer.
Alexander Frenkel KO6 Enzo Maccaranelli - Our full write-up, including knockout of the year candidate, is here. Frenkel wins the European cruiserweight title.
Kell Brook TKO5 Michael Jennings - Our full write-up is here. Brook is now the mandatory to fight Manny Pacquiao, as if that will EVER happen.
Matthew Macklin TKO6 Shalva Jomardishvili - Our full write-up is here.
Lukas Konecny TKO6 Matthew Hall - Our full write-up is here.
Derek Chisora TKO9 Sam Sexton - Our full write-up is here. Chisora wins the heavyweight Commonwealth title to go with his British title.
James DeGale TKO1 Carl Dilks - Our full write-up is here.
Gauteng, South Africa
Lovemore N'Dou SD12 Bongani Mwelase - N'Dou retains his fringe welterweight title. Mwelase, a previously undefeated southpaw with a 10-inch reach advantage, was outsmarted in this one, as N'Dou was able to effectively get inside and pound him there.
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FWIW
Knockout of the weekend poll coming tomorrow. Some really good ones today.
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
Thanks Golden Boy!
Wow! I really didn’t believe I would live to see a worse fight than Hopkins vs. Jones II in my lifetime much less in the same year. Golden Boy ought to be ashamed for continuing to haul out these old carcasses for PPV events. I bet they go for the trifecta and put Barrera in a PPV before years end. Thank God for the $20 Tecate rebate on the Mora fight. We should all sue that gutless wonder in a class action suit for the other $40.
Barrera’s with Top Rank now — not that that matters to your overall point.
Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
by Scott Christ on Sep 19, 2010 2:47 AM EDT up reply actions
With all due respect i think u have some kind of bias against Soto
You fail to mention Monterrosa was badly hurt at the end of round 7, and Soto was never hurt from round 6 onwards let alone knocked down
Monterrosa wasnt robbed it wasnt even a close fight in the later rounds he gassed out and didnt even try, they announced the scores following the 8th round and Monterrosa knowing he was down on all cards didnt even attempt to try and land something just clinched away
Soto clearly won the fight
And Lencho Parra was jumping up and down smiling with the decision because he didnt came to Mexico to win but to collect a paycheck and just avoid getting hurt, Arce might have looked bad but at least he tried to make it a fight
For the record the judges werent your local mexicans, they were WBC judges for the soto fight and WBO judges for the arce fight
So if u wanna blame someone blame the americans and puerto ricans who scored the fights
The Arce fight was 10 rounds
It wasn’t a WBO eliminator. I don’t know where boxrec got that from. And I know the judges weren’t local for the Soto fight.
I have nothing against Soto. I usually like him. I just thought he looked like crap last night.
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
“Lencho Parra was jumping up and down smiling with the decision because he didnt came to Mexico to win but to collect a paycheck and just avoid getting hurt, Arce might have looked bad but at least he tried to make it a fight”
I actually agree with all of this, but in the process of trying not to get hurt, he also landed punches and Arce didn’t. Someone doesn’t automatically lose a fight just because they ran and clinched all night. It was a horrible and boring fight, and Arce tried to make something of it, but he never caught Parra. When he did get near Parra, Parra jumped into a clinch. And 4 or 5 times a round Parra would land a little flurry or a few potshots and get back out of the way before Arce even had time to fire back. In two rounds, Arce landed a solid punch or two, and I scored both those rounds for Arce. But he was so ridiculously slow that he couldn’t land anything.
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
Really enjoyed the Magnificent Seven card and it was probably even better than i was expecting.
Just rewatching now as i was only half paying attention tom some of the fights last night.
Most impressive for me were DeGale and Cleverly and when watching the Brook fight again it was clear to me that Jenning was never really in it,although he did give Brook a different style to figure out.All the meaningful punches came from Kell and i think it was only a matter of time,had the cut not stopped the fight.
I think Jennings and his trainer knew that too as it was his trainer,not the doc or referee who pulled him out.The commentators were making it sound closer than it was,imo,but in reality Kell was coasting for the vast majority of the fight.
Good show and i hope Enzo will retire now.He was a good,entertaining fighter but he’s been KO’d 5 times now in the last 2 years or so and someone on the thread last night said he had to go hospital after the fight.I hope he decides to stop boxing.He has acheived a lot and done well from the game.
The Ref
was a bit at fault in the Macca figh,imo.If he knew Enzo’s history of suffering previous concussions(as he should have)he would have call it off after that first heavy knockdown when it was obvious to me Enzo didn’t want to really carry on.
The ref should have seen that.I hate to see fighter’sbeing uneccessarily hurt,.
Knowing Enzo’s history or not, no fighter should be allowed to continue in the state he was in after the first knockdown. Adding Enzo’s history just makes it worse.
KO’d 4 times since March 2008,i should have said.
It’s still too often.
by Matt Mosley on Sep 19, 2010 11:31 AM EDT up reply actions
How Can They Do That?
I mean, how is it possible to rescore it after the decision is announced? Doesn’t it call for a hearing, to get a score changed?
If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard--Andrew Vachss
Not really. The fight took place in Mexico, was sanctioned by a Mexican commission, and had Jorge Arce fighting on Mexican Independence Weekend. That said, Parra had it by a near shutout, and something should be done.
Good Grief--Yes, Something Should
If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard--Andrew Vachss
the fight has been changed to a draw again
apparently there will be an investigation and then reveal the final result
That's Good,
but it’s almost goofier
If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard--Andrew Vachss

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