Boxing Breakfast: Pacquiao vs Mosley Hangover Edition
by Scott Christ on May 8, 2011 5:00 AM EDT
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Pacquiao vs Mosley Results
- I hate to say any fight was "easy," but Manny Pacquiao had it pretty easy last night against old Shane Mosley. It pains me to "trash" Shane Mosley, but we have to be honest about who he is. If anyone ever tries to sell you another Shane Mosley fight with the speed that we know he doesn't have and the trigger we know he can't pull, hey, watch it if you want to, but expect nothing. Pacquiao dominated a virtual shutout decision over Mosley.
- Jorge Arce dramatically stopped Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. in the 12th round, throwing a flurry of punches that forced Vazquez's father to throw in the towel. It was the Fight of the Night, without question, and Arce looked better than he has in years. It was Vazquez's first loss.
- In a decent comeback that saw Kelly Pavlik amp it up in the 10th round and finally look like the old Pavlik to some degree, the former middleweight champ topped a game and difficult Alfonso Lopez by majority decision. It was a decent fight, and interesting to watch.
- In the PPV opener, Ray Narh quit after three rounds against Mike Alvarado. Apparently, Narh had been vomiting and had diarrhea before the fight. I shi-- kid you not.
Other Saturday Results
- Mike Perez won Prizefighter, beating Tye Fields in the final.
- 48-year-old Evander Holyfield scored a TKO-10 win over Brian Nielsen in Denmark. No surprise. Like I said the other day, Holyfield was a great champion. Nielsen always stunk. And Nielsen hadn't fought in nine years coming into this fight.
- Daniel Geale beat Sebastian Sylvester to lift a 160-pound trinket in Germany.
- Koki Kameda beat Daniel Diaz in Japan. Diaz retired from the fight after the 11th round. Tomoki Kameda also won on the card, and prospect Masao Nakamura was stopped in 1:01 by Ronald Pontillas.
This one goes out to Manny Pacquiao. Call the guy out. Call Floyd Mayweather Jr. out.
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You probably commented in the live thread about this Scott, but I thought that if a referee scored a knockdown, the judges had to acknowledge it. Is it a WBO rule that judges have the authority to ignore a knockdown call in the ring?
I’m fairly deliriously tired, but I don’t believe judges have to acknowledge a knockdown by scoring any particular way. And this was clearly, absolutely not a knockdown. Poor Kenny Bayless blowing that call probably contributed to Shane eating some leather in the last two rounds that Manny might otherwise have not thrown.
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"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
And which kind of suggested that he was carrying him. I did not like that one bit. Go after him and
send him to Pomona Dreamland forthwith!!
"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity." - Mike Quarry
Manny has a tendency to do that, though.
Once he’s clearly won, he’s a little too compassionate to go in for the kill (like Duran would have done).
It’s the only thing at which I don’t rate Manny at the All Time Great level.
Poor Kenny Bayless
Means he liklely will not get the next BIG one.
"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity." - Mike Quarry
That's a little scary
I really fear a bigtime fight having a Joe Cortez in the ring!
Yeah, which is a shame. Kenny’s a great referee and the blown call was wildly out of character for him. Joe Cortez blows something in 70% of the fights he’s involved with now and Nevada keeps giving him meaningful fights. Hopefully if Kenny gets passed over, at least Tony Weeks will get the job.
Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
It was nice to see Geale win, though the 118-110 Sylvester scorecard was typically German and edged the 99-91 Pavlik card for worst score of the day. I’m curious to see if Geale follows in the footsteps of Darchiniyan and Katsidis and tries land some fights in the States in the future. I guess having Shaw as a promoters might help in that regard. I’m happy to see one of the middleweight belts escape German domination, but it’s hardly an improvement if Geale simply goes back to Australia for his own soft defenses.
Yeah, exactly. But I hold out hope for Geale — he’s a good fighter, and he’s already taken risks by fighting Mundine and by going to Germany to fight Sylvester.
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