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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3887278, member: 289"] Today I watched a golf tournament, two baseball games, a basketball game and three boxing cards. I was switching back and forth between them and it made scoring more difficult but I’ll try to summarize the boxing I saw. DAZN had the first card. Blair Cobbs knocked out Brad Solomon in the 5th round and spent the post-fight interview alternating actual words with “Whhooo!!!”. He put on an I wanna be Ali act and said he wanted main-eventer Jaime Munguia next. Cobbs is a welterweight: Munguia is a middleweight. Cobbs is undefeated with a 14-0-1 record and I thought he was a young prospect but he’s 31 and ahs been fighting professionally since 2013. The punch of the night and maybe the year came from Super Middle Gabe Rosado, a trail horse with a 25-13-1 record with 14 knockouts. But he’d been fighting top guys for years, (he’d just lost a decision from Daniel Jacobs). His opponent, Bektemir Melikuziev, was 7-0 with 6 knockouts and was nicknamed “The Bully”. 50% of his punches are body punched and he downed Rosado with on in the first round and kept advancing for more against Rosado who seemed to be in survival mode. But he was just biding his time. Near the end of the third round he hit Melikuziev, who was leaning forward, with the perfect counter-punch, hitting him in the left corner of his jaw. The Bully was out before he hit the canvas head - first in a replay of the Marquez-Paquiao knockout. I got this…I got this…static. Munguia faced Kamil Szeremeta, who had just gone 7 rounds with Triple G. Jaime wanted to top that. Kamil was feisty but-outgunned. He gave nearly as much as he got but faded as the bout progressed and Munguia got more and more aggressive. A battered Szeremeta didn’t come out for round 7, a fact that could get Munguia a bout with Golovkin or at least a title shot. It’s about time. He’s 37-0 with 30 knockouts. One theme of the commentary is that he uses his offense as his defense. He doesn’t move his head much. That could be a problem. Show time had the next card but I didn’t see much except the main event. Jermall Charlo, (the still unbeaten one who has a middleweight title) faced Juan Macias Montiel, a relative known with 22 knockouts in 22 wins but also 5 losses against lower-level competition. There was little sign of how he achieved those 22 knockouts as he spent the first 8 rounds doing a strange dance around the ring, avoiding contact as best he could and playing to the crowd, dropping his hands, moving in and out and occasionally throwing punches, mostly to the body. Charlo was determined, aggressive and direct, sticking Montiel with his jab and following up with classic left hooks and right crosses but strangely unable to knock Montiel down or even phase him. The fight turned in the 9th, when a cut opened up over Charlo’s eye, which then swelled up. This put Charlo on the defensive – and Montiel on the offensive. Now it was Charlo backing up but still flashing combination to keep Montiel off of him. I gave Monteil the 9th round and found the 10th even. Charlo seemed very tired but rallied at the end of rounds 11 and 12 to take a one-sided decision. I had it 119-110. The judges were 118-109, 119-109 and 120-108. Punch-count was 516-254. So there was no doubt who won. But Charlo ahs now gone the distance eon 4 of his last 5 fights and he’s got the same problem and Munguia: he doesn’t move his head, expecting his offense to be his defense, which may be a problem if he ever gets a really big fight. (I hate the play-by-play guys Showtime uses. He sounds like he's narrating the trailer for a Grade: Z movie.) The best fighter of the night was on ESPN: Naoya Inoue, who crushed Michael Dasmarinas in three rounds with 3 liver shots, all of which decked his opponent, who managed to stagger to his feet the first two times but didn’t bother the third time. Inoue does what Munguia and Charlo don’t do: he sets up his offense with his defense. He constantly moves his head and body, then moves in at angles his opponent isn’t ready for. When he finds a weakness, he fully exploits it. His whole problem is that, as a bantamweight, where are the big-money fights? [/QUOTE]

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