Bad Left Hook Live Boxing Results and Commentary: Vitali Klitschko v. Odlanier Solis
by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 12:00 PM EDT
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Today at 5pm EDT live on Epix and EpixHD.com in the U.S., Vitali Klitschko will take on Cuban hopeful Odlanier Solis from the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany. Bad Left Hook will be here with live, round-by-round coverage, scoring and analysis during and immediately following the fight. Those who are without Epix can watch the fight live today on their web site by taking the free trial offer, which a ton of people are doing.
For those who might have missed our preview of the bout, you can read that by clicking here. Solis is a heavy underdog, but I think can be fairly called the best opponent Klitschko has faced since returning to the sport in 2008. He also came in at a relatively trim 246 pounds on the scales for the fight, which is probably still 15-20 pounds over what most believe his ideal fighting weight would be, but it's an improvement, and right around his professional career low. Klitschko, for the record, came in at 249 pounds, but is a bit over five inches taller than Solis, too.
There won't be a televised undercard on the Epix broadcast, and the Sky Sports airing in the U.K. will start at 4:30 EDT with a Commonwealth super featherweight fight between Liam Walsh (10-0, 7 KO) and Jon Kays (13-1, 4 KO) from Wigan. For those interested, the undercard in Cologne features the following bouts:
Cruiserweights: Ola Afolabi (15-2-3, 6 KO) v. Lubos Suda (23-4-1, 15 KO)
Cruiserweights: Nuri Seferi (29-6, 18 KO) v. Jozsef Nagy (24-9, 15 KO)
Welterweights: Stefan Worth (10-1-1, 3 KO) v. Ferenc Zold (11-4, 5 KO)
Heavyweights: Michael Sprott (35-15, 17 KO) v. Serdar Uysal (13-2-2, 6 KO)
Cruiserweights: Hizni Altunkaya (15-0, 8 KO) v. Dirk Mandelartz (7-4-3, 3 KO)
I almost don't want to believe that "Dirk Mandelartz" is a real name. It sounds like something a Steve Martin character would come up with.
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I’m going to make an effort to watch this one live AND participate in the open thread. We’ll see if life doesn’t get in my way as is often the case.
by glatin1982 on Mar 19, 2011 3:25 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
epix isn't working for me yet
have signed up, but can’t get any screens going
Oh, and on topic: I hope that Solis blasts Klitschko away!
Dirk Mandelartz
is an amazing name, and it sounds like one of the names from this Mystery Science Theater 3000 clip:
by Verklemptomaniac on Mar 19, 2011 4:35 PM EDT reply actions
if this isn't Space Mutiny I'll eat my hat
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions
YES!
I can still eat pizza and not my hat!
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Haven’t gone live yet, but the preview time-waster stuff is pretty good quality. My only worry is that they didn’t prepare for the much higher than usual server load.
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Argh, hate this website
Signed up for a trial account, asked me for an invite code. Got an invite code, and now it won’t let me click the button to submit the code.
by Verklemptomaniac on Mar 19, 2011 4:44 PM EDT reply actions
Got it working
But this UI is terrible. No fullscreen? “Get a Free Trial!” button that persists after you’ve signed in with your free trial login, and won’t go away? Are they hosting this thing on a geocities page?
by Verklemptomaniac on Mar 19, 2011 4:57 PM EDT reply actions
They’re giving you free access to a subscription service and letting you watch the only thing you signed up for, fully aware that it’s the only thing you signed up for. I say take the idiotic floating thing and pray they can handle the server load.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions
ican't get it working either, same thing here. still stuck
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else--James Thurber, 1939
btw if you aren't aware
Lennox Lewis is going to be part of the broadcast team.
Absolutely.
Bad Left Hook
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not for me
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 5:02 PM EDT up reply actions
they're calling from studios in the US
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Lennox off to his usual rollicking start. “Vitali is big. He has fought many times.”
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is the fight on already? I’m at Tucker’s house in England and he’s watching some English fight
I will not buy any PPV promoted by Bob Arum.
No. It’ll be a few. Sky’s going to go live with it too. They’re doing studio nonsense.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions
ugh
This commentary is already awful.
“Is he ready, Tony?”
“We’re going to find out. Is he ready? We’re going to find out.”
I KNOW we’re going to find out. You’re an ANALYST. ANALYZE, DUDE.
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lennox lewis chiming in with
“Vitali is a professional fighter”
by StillUnknown on Mar 19, 2011 5:08 PM EDT up reply actions
oh we are going to have an undercard fight
It’s the Seferi-Nagy fight. No thanks on RBR here. I’ve seen them both before and am aware that “The Albanian Tyson” isn’t.
Bad Left Hook
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Apparently, we're getting an undercard bout
“The Albanian Tyson”. Really now.
by Verklemptomaniac on Mar 19, 2011 5:07 PM EDT reply actions
“Nagy a little soft in the middle there, Lennox.”
Lennox: “………………………………………………………………………………………………………”
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The good thing about them calling the fight from a studio is you can turn the volume down low enough to barely hear them and yet still hear the crowd and sounds of the fight.
I actually appreciate the volume levels they’re keeping here. Usually they have the commentators just over a barely audible fight and crowd.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 5:13 PM EDT up reply actions
I mean for fights where they do overseas stuff from a studio — Integrated Sports does this and it’s just brutal. ESPN does it for the rare overseas stuff they do online. This sounds a bit more organic than this setup usually does.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 5:18 PM EDT up reply actions
10-9 Suferi
Not the two worst boxers I’ve ever seen. Nagy is pressuring, and landing some decent shots, but Suferi is landing more.
by Verklemptomaniac on Mar 19, 2011 5:11 PM EDT reply actions
Not the two worst boxers I’ve ever seen.
Of course not. We live in a world with … well, I won’t say his name.
Bad Left Hook
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 5:13 PM EDT up reply actions
You have to have the trial account activated, but yeah.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 5:13 PM EDT up reply actions
10-8 Suferi, 20-17
Nagy’s arms are turning bright red. He’s not very good, but at least he’s coming forward. Suferi throws some halfway decent combos and body punches.
by Verklemptomaniac on Mar 19, 2011 5:15 PM EDT reply actions
I can’t sign in to my account at epix. Screen just freezes
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
same
it doesn’t say anything above the search bar where it usually says sign in or sign up
"Dawson was NOT a hype job. Dude schooled Adamek, beat Tarver twice (neither competitive), beat Johnson twice (once close, once a wipeout) and even beat Harding when Harding was still good. That is not hype. Those are results. I love how people see a guy lose once and all of a sudden nothing they ever did means anything. You are dead wrong."
- Dan Rafael
10-9 Nagy, 29-27 Suferi
Suferi isn’t throwing punches, nagy is, and Nagy’s are landing. I’m gonna call Nagy the Hungarian Chris Arreola.
by Verklemptomaniac on Mar 19, 2011 5:19 PM EDT reply actions
Sounds like the high server load issue is coming up for some of you.
Bad Left Hook
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And now I’m getting a buffering issue. Half an hour ago I made a bet with a friend that I’d wind up watching this on a Sky stream. I’m still betting I’m right. They did not prepare for a lot of people to sign up and watch this fight.
Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
Looking for the Sky stream, I just noticed that channelsurfing.net was shut down by the feds...
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
Abandon ship!
Going with an alternate completely legal and in no way copyright infringing source to watch instead.
by Verklemptomaniac on Mar 19, 2011 5:24 PM EDT reply actions
And Sky to the rescue
Jim Watt > Lennox Lewis, any day, despite the blatant ass kissing of European fighters
"Dawson was NOT a hype job. Dude schooled Adamek, beat Tarver twice (neither competitive), beat Johnson twice (once close, once a wipeout) and even beat Harding when Harding was still good. That is not hype. Those are results. I love how people see a guy lose once and all of a sudden nothing they ever did means anything. You are dead wrong."
- Dan Rafael
indeed
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 5:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Walsh-Kays looks to be going like everyone expected. Aaaand it’s over.
Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
“Liam Walsh DOES prove his pedigree.”
If it’s proof that he’s better than Jon Kays, well, yes.
Bad Left Hook
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Then Liam Walsh probably didn’t prove his pedigree at all. Or he did and it’s not great news.
Why am I being such an ass? Walsh is still a work in progress too.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 5:28 PM EDT up reply actions
True
In the first three rounds, up until the KD in the fourth, Kays was doing well, much better than expected.
"Dawson was NOT a hype job. Dude schooled Adamek, beat Tarver twice (neither competitive), beat Johnson twice (once close, once a wipeout) and even beat Harding when Harding was still good. That is not hype. Those are results. I love how people see a guy lose once and all of a sudden nothing they ever did means anything. You are dead wrong."
- Dan Rafael
THERE'S ONLY ONE LIAM WALSH
Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
This is disappointing
Epix is like Solis we had such high hopes for it knowing that there are flaws, but we want to see what happens anyways…and then comes the disappointment. Epix wasn’t prepared to deal with the onslaught.
by tacklerford on Mar 19, 2011 5:27 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
i tired to be nice and legit and and do the epix thing. i dont have the patience for it anymore and i’m going to illegal means to watch.
"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."
-Sonny Liston
You and everyone else. A couple of us got in early and managed to see a portion of the exciting Jozsef Nagy fight but then it locked up on us, too. I tried to refresh and they’re not even letting people in anymore, account or not. Great show, Epix. Congratulations on putting the fight in Times Square, though!
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 5:29 PM EDT up reply actions
could someone please email Tucker’s address to me at boxzanne@gmail.com?
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else--James Thurber, 1939
sent
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 6:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Thank you very much
I got there just in time for the catastrophe.
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else--James Thurber, 1939
FUCK YEAH DRAGON AGE 2
…WHICH I’LL PLAY SOMEDAY AFTER I GO BACK AND FINISH DRAGON AGE
Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
Graphics look good, but is it RPG style or WoW style?
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
More RPG than WoW. The first one was very fun, I just never finished it because I can basically only play one game at a time and I got on The Show or something.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 5:34 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm close to finishing Bioware's Mass Effect 2
pretty enjoyable game
Aside from maybe a few Ukranian tourists, I doubt people at Times Square give a damn at this time of day
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
meant for Scott above
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
Still though
Nice to at least feel that a Heavyweight Championship still matters to people. Enough to crash a website even.
Just from online traffic, I can tell you that the Klitschkos still draw. They’re among the more consistent “online draws” — not on the level of Pacquiao, who destroys the field, or Mayweather, but up there with pretty much everyone else.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 5:36 PM EDT up reply actions
i could have a great fight day today. a solis win would be awesome. more awesome will be a shogun destruction tonight.
if both lose im going to be figgin miserable.
"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."
-Sonny Liston
Shogun destruction of Jones, or Jones destroying Shogun?
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 5:37 PM EDT up reply actions
shogun destruction of jones
"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."
-Sonny Liston
by sonofapsycho on Mar 19, 2011 5:38 PM EDT up reply actions
If Shogun loses tonight,
My interest in the light heavyweight will die altogether.
"Dawson was NOT a hype job. Dude schooled Adamek, beat Tarver twice (neither competitive), beat Johnson twice (once close, once a wipeout) and even beat Harding when Harding was still good. That is not hype. Those are results. I love how people see a guy lose once and all of a sudden nothing they ever did means anything. You are dead wrong."
- Dan Rafael
I've changed my mind about that fight so many times
I still don’t know who I’m picking to win that one
by StillUnknown on Mar 19, 2011 5:40 PM EDT up reply actions
This is a huge stepup for Jones
He’s going from Bonnar, Hamill, Matsyushenko, and Bader to the legitimate top 10 guy hes fought in his career. Not only that, but he’s #1
"Dawson was NOT a hype job. Dude schooled Adamek, beat Tarver twice (neither competitive), beat Johnson twice (once close, once a wipeout) and even beat Harding when Harding was still good. That is not hype. Those are results. I love how people see a guy lose once and all of a sudden nothing they ever did means anything. You are dead wrong."
- Dan Rafael
im a biased shogun mark but ive been saying this for a while.
too much too soon for jones
"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."
-Sonny Liston
by sonofapsycho on Mar 19, 2011 5:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Walsh-Appleby or Walsh-Sykes could be fun.
Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
Solis has to come out fast. I know that is easier said than done but you just cannot let Vitali get comfortable in that ring or you are going to school.
Yeah. He has to hope Vitali is stiff early to go with that.
I won’t lie, I hope Solis wins. It shakes things up. I could use a good shake-up.
Bad Left Hook
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 5:46 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm rooting for Solis
although I do like Vitali. Like you its for the sake of my interest in the HW division.
McDonald’s commercials from the UK are very different from those in NA
"Dawson was NOT a hype job. Dude schooled Adamek, beat Tarver twice (neither competitive), beat Johnson twice (once close, once a wipeout) and even beat Harding when Harding was still good. That is not hype. Those are results. I love how people see a guy lose once and all of a sudden nothing they ever did means anything. You are dead wrong."
- Dan Rafael
I still don’t get why Katy Perry and BOB are in the same commercial as Derrick Rose, and Messi
"Dawson was NOT a hype job. Dude schooled Adamek, beat Tarver twice (neither competitive), beat Johnson twice (once close, once a wipeout) and even beat Harding when Harding was still good. That is not hype. Those are results. I love how people see a guy lose once and all of a sudden nothing they ever did means anything. You are dead wrong."
- Dan Rafael
I’ve got two reasons why Katy Perry is in any commercial she so chooses.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 5:49 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I see what you’re doing there.
by The Boxer Rebellion on Mar 19, 2011 5:50 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Truth.
"Dawson was NOT a hype job. Dude schooled Adamek, beat Tarver twice (neither competitive), beat Johnson twice (once close, once a wipeout) and even beat Harding when Harding was still good. That is not hype. Those are results. I love how people see a guy lose once and all of a sudden nothing they ever did means anything. You are dead wrong."
- Dan Rafael
Did anyone watch Solis-Austin? I’m curious what form he was in (form, as opposed to shape), since I was hoping he could dispose of Ray a little earlier in the fight.
He didn’t look great.
Bad Left Hook
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 5:51 PM EDT up reply actions
My stream is starting to suck now...
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
saw a few pac vs mosley commercial spots already during ncaa. fwiw
"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."
-Sonny Liston
Was Kingpin vs Vitali broadcasted on HBO? Don’t remember. Or was the Arreola fight the last Klitschko fight broadcasted?
"Dawson was NOT a hype job. Dude schooled Adamek, beat Tarver twice (neither competitive), beat Johnson twice (once close, once a wipeout) and even beat Harding when Harding was still good. That is not hype. Those are results. I love how people see a guy lose once and all of a sudden nothing they ever did means anything. You are dead wrong."
- Dan Rafael
Vitali-Johnson was broadcast late on delay after Diaz-Malignaggi II. Luckily most of us caught the live stream that afternoon and weren’t up until 1am watching that travesty.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 5:58 PM EDT up reply actions
This is seriously the worst boxing coverage ever by Epix.
by The Boxer Rebellion on Mar 19, 2011 5:59 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2C5TjS2sh4
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 5:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Are the bands that perform before German fights actually representative of what’s still atop the pops? My theory that Germany never developed beyond 1987 is proving strangely valid.
hmmm… Solis is walking out to plastic palm trees… as a Caribbean man I am a bit insulted
I will not buy any PPV promoted by Bob Arum.
What about that old-timey car? Every American movie I’ve ever seen representing Cuba (namely, Captain Ron) has everyone driving classic American cars.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 6:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Two interesting things: apparently old american cars are very very popular in Cuba… and 2, Captain Ron was actually shot in Old San Juan
I will not buy any PPV promoted by Bob Arum.
Well I didn’t assume Captain Ron was actually shot in Cuba. It’s Captain Ron.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 6:02 PM EDT up reply actions
I’d forgotten that LL only says obvious shit. Guy sounds…so dumb.
"You can't search me without probable cause Or that proper ammunition they call reasonable suspicion Listen while I bring friction to your whole jurisdiction" - Fugees
He’s terrible. “Vitali is big! He is a professional boxer!”
Bad Left Hook
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 6:03 PM EDT up reply actions
pro tip: stay warm while the other fighter is making his entrance
"You can't search me without probable cause Or that proper ammunition they call reasonable suspicion Listen while I bring friction to your whole jurisdiction" - Fugees
I would never want an iron-fisted doctor to perform medicine on me. Those instruments are hard to use when you have Dr. Doom’s fingers.
Which is why Dr. Doom's career...
as a proctologist never panned out.
theres a quirky seinfeld assman reference reply to this but its not hitting me
"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."
-Sonny Liston
by sonofapsycho on Mar 19, 2011 6:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Doom figured that when it comes to asses, if you can't fix 'em, kick 'em.
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
who is in charge of the camera for this joint? nobody wants to see michael buffer now. pan to the chick next to him wtf
"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."
-Sonny Liston
by sonofapsycho on Mar 19, 2011 6:08 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
why is there a “cheer” button on my feed?
"You can't search me without probable cause Or that proper ammunition they call reasonable suspicion Listen while I bring friction to your whole jurisdiction" - Fugees
Because Epix is Epixally interactive!!
You can also chat with fans in your “row”!
But most likely you can’t watch at all or gave up 45 minutes ago even trying!
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 6:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Our condolences to Japan…
Followed by “let’s get ready to RUMBLLLLE.”
Oof.
by The Boxer Rebellion on Mar 19, 2011 6:09 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
I would have preferred him to go straight Buffer Voice all the way. “Let’s get ready for SILLLENNNCE!”
by El Destruyo on Mar 19, 2011 6:10 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I wasn't going to mention it, but, yeah...
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
I say Isengard.
Bad Left Hook
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 6:13 PM EDT up reply actions
"Its very important
To look at your oponent, because that’s the guy that will be hitting you." Thank you Lenox
Klitschko-Solis R1
Klitschko sneaks in a quick left hook when Solis shoots his own. Solis does look quick, but he can’t find the range just yet. Vitali is doing some weird shimmy shit with his legs. White people shouldn’t dance. Solis with a right hand. Sneaky left hook from Solis. He’s really doing just fine. Right hand, and SOLIS IS DOWN! Well then.
He’s hurt too.
This is over.
Vitali Klitschko TKO-1
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fuck the HW division. Fuck it. It’s total garbage. the best HWs are engaged in a labor battle anyway.
"You can't search me without probable cause Or that proper ammunition they call reasonable suspicion Listen while I bring friction to your whole jurisdiction" - Fugees
Klitschko thinks Solis quit. Good shot by Sky of the feet and legs of Solis. Watt’s right — if that was a dive, he’s a hell of an actor. That left knee went goofy.
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yeah that replay changed my mind for sure
really a shame too
And Solis at least looked like he belonged in there. This sucks.
by The Boxer Rebellion on Mar 19, 2011 6:17 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Really looks more like a knee injury than anything to me. Watch his left knee go funky. Straightens out and locks weird on him.
Bad Left Hook
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yeah, looking it again, it might’ve been something in the leg… it certainly wasn’t the punch
I will not buy any PPV promoted by Bob Arum.
at least we didn’t have to see 12 rounds of a usual klit bros fight
"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."
-Sonny Liston
that's true
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 6:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Definitely wasn't a dive
Solid did ok for a couple mins…
by uksb on Mar 19, 2011 6:18 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Definitely wasn't a dive
Solid did ok for a couple mins…
by uksb on Mar 19, 2011 6:18 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Wlad-Haye and Vitali-Adamek.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 6:20 PM EDT up reply actions
bringing a stretcher out
And Solis is slumped and hasn’t moved since getting there besides getting his gloves cut off.
Bad Left Hook
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He’s up and moving around, but limping.
Bad Left Hook
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Solis was in good shape too… you could almost make out his abs…
I will not buy any PPV promoted by Bob Arum.
he was landing nice sneaky shots too. could have been very interesting. oh well.
"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."
-Sonny Liston
Vitali might not give him a rematch if he thinks this could happen again
I will not buy any PPV promoted by Bob Arum.
Vitali didn’t look too happy with the ending. He looked pissed. I hope and think he’ll give him another shot.
"You can't search me without probable cause Or that proper ammunition they call reasonable suspicion Listen while I bring friction to your whole jurisdiction" - Fugees
Is it possible that the ref could have given him time to recover? Or had the doctor talk to him before he called the fight?
It was a fair end. You can’t really give time to a fighter for recovery, beyond the 10 count, except for illegal blows.
I mean recovery from the injury to his leg. That punch might have sent him down but it got help from Solis’ legs and it was obvious he had problems with his legs.
Wow, this “fight” was shown on Times Square… I can hear the MMA zealots now…
I will not buy any PPV promoted by Bob Arum.
I just think it was something for tourists to barely notice, on their way to the wax museum of M&Ms World.
exactly
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
im out. gotta do laundry.
war shogun tonight.
"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."
-Sonny Liston
where watch?
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
HBO and Showtime
Laughing hysterically.
by The Boxer Rebellion on Mar 19, 2011 6:25 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Lennox Lewis is an idiot. There’s no two ways about it.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 6:26 PM EDT up reply actions
please work well enough for coverage, RTE
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woo!
This will do.
OK, we’ll just do Rigondeaux-Casey in here.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 6:27 PM EDT up reply actions
yeah
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 6:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Can Casey make this fight interesting? And I don’t mean can he win, I mean, will it be an interesting fight? Because Rigondeaoux is not very interesting
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I have very little hope for Casey. Rigondeaux picks guys like this apart.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 6:32 PM EDT up reply actions
I kinda feel bad for the crowd
I suspect they will be shushed for a while
I dunno, but as SC said the other day, somebody not the great is going to beat Rigondeaux. He just lets shit happen. He’s like a tennis player who plays “small”. Somebody who is not the good is going to have the night of their life and catch him.
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yeah
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by Scott Christ on Mar 19, 2011 6:33 PM EDT up reply actions
Rigondeaux-Casey R1
Great crowd. Two southpaws. Rigondeaux hurts him with a body shot and now Guillermo is just tearing into him. Casey is in trouble already. Casey has no hope. I’m sorry, he’s a great underdog story, but unless Rigondeaux lets him, he’s not lasting long here. Rigondeaux still targeting the body. Casey shoots a right, but gets hit with a left and drops to the canvas. Not a hard knockdown, but a real one. He’s up, but Rigondeaux is just throttling him. He’s way, way too good. This is the Rigondeaux I’d love to see more of. He’s HUGE LEFT HAND AND CASEY IS BACK DOWN!
This is embarrassingly one-sided. This is Guillermo Rigondeaux the amateur legend. This tough fucker is going to keep fighting, and finally they call it off.
Rigondeaux TKO-1
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About to say the same in the recap, but if Rigondeaux fights like that more often, that “he can’t make fans” stuff will end.
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it’s closer to the original french pronunciation than the US announcers manage, except I don’t think Rigondeaux likes it said in french.
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how does he like it said?
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
according to explicit instructions from his corner one nite on FNF, he likes ri gon dee ow. It’s like away to hispanify his french name i guess.
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interesting, didn't know that
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
i think in French it should be “ri gon dou” with the emphasis on the last syllable, right? cuz the Irish commentators were saying “ri gon do” with the accent on the first syllable
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technically, there are no accents in the way you are thinking in French. Syllables meant to be stressed the same,
which is why French meter is so difficult for English speakers to perfect.
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
I don’t really speak French, but I did take some french courses and they taught us about the 4 different accents… in either of the classes that I took they never told us to stress all syllables the same…
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From Wikipedia:
French words are sometimes said to be stressed on the final syllable. In fact, however, it may be said that French has no word stress at all; instead, stress is placed on the final syllable (or, if the final is a schwa, the next-to-final syllable) of a string of words. This string may be equivalent to a clause or a phrase. When a word is said alone, its last syllable is also the end of the phrase, so the stress is placed ther
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
So, it depends on the sentence? No wonder I was never able to learn French.
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right, the unit of measurement is not the syllable, as it is in Spanish and English (even though Spanish and English handle it differenlty, both are accentual syllabic)
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
yeah, technically, but not where the accent is supposed to be I think…
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no, not, but
frencher nonetheless than he likes it.
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else--James Thurber, 1939
French isn't an accentual-syllabic language at all like English
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
do you mean the diacritcal marks like accent grave, accent acute, etc?
If so, yes, but that’s different than what English speakers think of as accent—syllables that alternate between stressed and unstressed. More of a sound thing than an emphasis thing if that makes any sense.
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
I guess I should’ve told you that I am a native Spanish speaker so I’m not really thinking in English…
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Spanish is also accental syllabic like English
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
I don't speak it
but people all around me did, took it in college, can figure it out if it’s written. But I can pronounce it reasonbly well, the way you can if you heard it with young ears, and you’re right about the non-accented words, rather the phrases are marked by an accented ender. It’s what gives French its cadence.
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else--James Thurber, 1939
I speak midling French and bad Spanish, but I learned about the nuances of French meter
when I took a French poetry class (taught in French) that was a part of the language requirement for my Ph.D.
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
yipes, i'd never have got past that.
just heard it as a little kid in Quebec with relatives, and at the family pharmacy down in the French section here in town a thousand yrs ago.
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else--James Thurber, 1939
actually, took 3 yrs in hs, took German in college, can’t speak either one of them. Good enough mimic to get the pronunciation close tho.
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else--James Thurber, 1939
seriously, if neither of my teachers told be about how the pronunciation is determined by the string of words, no wonder I never learned French… when I took French, it seemed so arbitrary to me, it really didn’t make any sense to me and I would ask the professors and they would just shrug and say: “that’s just how it is” and these are two very different professors in two different countries
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Damn, Rigondeaux ate Casey alive
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why do I think it’s going to be a 3 KO-1 night, I wonder.
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i was just thinking the same thing…. Bute/McGee could be a dud like this too
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Bute has been real patient recently
It should go at least 4 rounds
Wouldn’t surprise me at all. Look at who Bute is facing. Magee shouldn’t be in a championship fight
by Eugene Banks on Mar 19, 2011 6:43 PM EDT up reply actions
Epix must be in an epic rage.
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