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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3900184, member: 289"] It ain't just flash if you can back it up. I wasn't sure if I was going to watch Showtime's boxing tonight: I didn't recognize any of the names, but decided to check out the top two bouts. Both involved flashy fighters who backed up the flash with genuine skill: Michel Rivera and Chris Colbert. They are two more new faces in the crowded and fascinating lightweight picture, which is full of heavyweight talents. Rivera bears a facial resemblance to Muhammed Ali, which he accentuates by wearing Ali's classic white trunks with the name 'Ali' in big letters. He claimed after the bout to be the Greatest's "reincarnation but I think you are supposed to be born after the other fella dies for that to work. He's not Ali but he looked pretty good in an exciting, back and forth fight with one Jon Fernandez. Both were moving constantly and traded combinations, backing each other off at various times. In the 6th Fernandez hit Rivera in the nose while "Ali" was trying a body shot and the kid went down on one knee. But he shook that off and got Fernandez with a shot behind the left ear that put him flat on his back for a couple of minutes. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1625375172053.png"]203157[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1625375192636.png"]203158[/ATTACH] Colbert was a different animal altogether. He was tastefully decorated, (to this Syracuse fan) in orange. His gloves were orange and so was his hair, cut in one of those round, just the top of the head jobs that looks like a period in search of an exclamation point. He also had a heavily decorated set of trunks with floppy extensions that looked silly. But he punched his over-matched opponent silly over 12 rounds getting a one-sided decision over somebody named Tugstsogt Nyambayar. Colbert didn't waste time pronouncing his name. he just used his amazing hand speed to throw lightening jabs and combination. His hands were so fast that TN never even saw the punch before it landed. TN was a good fighter, moving up from featherweight and timed his responses well enough to put Colbert on the defensive occasionally but he was outgunned. Colbert did some foolish things like dropping his hands and sticking out his head but TN couldn't make him pay for it. Colbert didn't have the power to score the knockout and TN was trading flurries with him at the end but won an easy unanimous decision, 117-111, 118-110 and 118-110. I'm not sure what rounds they gave TN, who was out-punched 78-218. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1625376204469.png"]203159[/ATTACH] What's interesting is that Rivera and Colbert sparred together preparing for their fights. That would have been something to see. [/QUOTE]

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