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Alfredo Angulo vs James Kirkland: Full Fight Video from HBO

Courtesy HBO Sports, here's the full fight video of the November 5 slugfest between Alfredo Angulo and James Kirkland in Mexico, which featured a Round of the Year contender in the opening three minutes, and then became a one-way street of brutality in favor of the road fighter from Austin, Texas.


After this fight, I think it's fair to seriously question just how good Alfredo Angulo is, but then again I never thought he was particularly great. Fun to watch, but extremely limited and to me, a poor man's Antonio Margarito in just about every way. Guys with any skill, good stamina, and the ability to not get trucked by his rushes will always give him serious fits. The two best fighters he's faced have beaten him.

As for Kirkland, 2012 could be a big year for the ferocious brawler if he can stay on the straight and narrow. Ann Wolfe gets results from him, and they've become one of the best partnerships in boxing.

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I love this fight. Thought it was the Ishida fight all over again but Kirkland just refused to go down like that.

I still think there’s good days ahead for Angulo. He’ll never make P4P lists but if he can start fighting in the US again he can make some good cash. Wonder if him and Nacho are gonna keep working together? Nacho pretty much threw him under the bus on 24/7.

by BloodMeridian on Dec 24, 2011 12:25 PM EST reply actions  

I really think Nacho’s the wrong guy for him. Maybe he should go with someone like Zaragoza or Rudy Perez.

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"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."

by Scott Christ on Dec 25, 2011 8:52 AM EST up reply actions  

I agree with your description of Angulo, but I don’t know if it’s fair to question him due to this fight. He hurt his man, got too excited trying to finish him, punched himself out and could never recover. He very easily could’ve ended the fight in 45 seconds but Kirkland did a great job surviving.

#1 Devon Alexander hater

by uGotKTFO on Dec 24, 2011 6:29 PM EST reply actions  

I don’t know – I just have serious reservations about Angulo and have for a while. I was one of a few who picked Kirkland to win this fight, and it wasn’t so much that I think Kirkland is great as I just don’t see a lot with Angulo (other than the fact that he’s great fun and always welcome on my TV – I like Angulo, just not so much in a critical sense).

He kind of seems like one of those guys who’s spectacular when it’s easy and just not very good at all when there’s a test. I mean he really got his ass kicked in this fight. Yeah he started fast, but that was it. After he failed to put Kirkland away, it got pretty brutal.

Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."

by Scott Christ on Dec 25, 2011 8:51 AM EST up reply actions  

Getting dominated by Cintron kinda takes the wind out of the sails…

"The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register."
-Bob Verdi

by Waldo Rastel on Dec 25, 2011 3:53 PM EST up reply actions  

Angulo was sick as a dog that night. Bad flu, not fully recovered. Brave he tried it at all. Never going to be really great tho, never mind about Cintron.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else--James Thurber, 1939

by BoxAnne on Dec 27, 2011 11:32 AM EST up reply actions  

Cintron’s sick as a dog in every fight. Bad case of being Cintron.

Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."

by Scott Christ on Dec 27, 2011 4:28 PM EST up reply actions  

Wouldnt mind seeing Alfredo vs. Canelo at all.

by Frank Lee on Dec 26, 2011 11:30 AM EST via Android app reply actions  

Frank, welcome to BLH

"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 (1971-2009)

by Boss Man on Dec 26, 2011 8:05 PM EST reply actions  

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