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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3666288, member: 289"] Between all the football and basketball games I checked in on the boxing on DAZN. I saw some of both Alvarado brothers and most of the Ryan Garcia fight, although I missed the knockdown of the cocky young pretty boy. (That's not a criticism: boxing needs all the cocky young pretty boys it can get). All three fights were full of action and got 2021 off to a great start. Felix Alvarado was clearly better than his opponent but there was plenty of action in that fight. it ended with a TKO as the ref stopped the punishment of the game but out-gunned DeeJay Kriel. Kriel was hopelessly behind on points and obviously didn't have the punch needed to get a knockout. He was still swinging but there was no point to risking his getting seriously hurt, which is something we've seen too often in boxing. It's the brave but overmatched guys who are in the most danger in the sport. You are much better off being kayoed in the early rounds than late if it's going to happen. Rene Alvarado had knocked out Roger Gutierrez in seven rounds three years ago but Roger reversed that result tonight, winning a 12 round decision. It was the hardest kind of fight to judge: three knockdowns all of Alvarado, but Rene won most of the rounds when he wasn't knocked down. All three cards had Gutierrez the winner by the same score 113-112. Two the knockdowns came in round three, making it a 10-7 round. Alvarado rallied at the end of that round and won at least the next three. But is winning three rounds really the equivalent of losing a round 7-10? Not in the impression it leaves, anyway. When I tuned in to the Garcia fight, they were showing the replay of Ryan getting floored in the second round and I would have grabbed the popcorn at that point if I had any. But he shook it off and used his superior hand speed to rack up the rounds after that. Then he got to Campbell in the 7th with a liver shot that basically paralyzed him for more than a 10 count. (How often have we seen that in recent boxing?) Afterwards, he thanked Campbell for knocking him down so he could prove that he could take it and come back to win. I was impressed with that. He seems like a coming star in a division, (the lightweights), that already has several of them. One concern: they noted that Garcia didn't show much head movement but said that he made up for it in hand speed. the best defense is often a good offense but against the competition he's got coming up, (Teofimo Lopez, Gervonta Davis and Devin Haney) that formula may not be so successful. [/QUOTE]

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