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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3927262, member: 289"] Had DAZN, ESPN+ and Showtime all on at once after me Mets lost again. I didn't score any of the fights because I wasn't watching all of any of them. Vergil Ortiz Jr. vs Egidijus Kavaliauskas: Kavaliauskas had given my favorite fighter Bud Crawford a hard time before Bud won it in the 9th. Ortiz was very impressive, keeping Kavaliauskas at bay with a strong jab, setting up his right hand. He was very aggressive and when Kavaliauskas nailed him in the 2nd round, he waved him in and then turned the tide with his own punching. He finally got in some body shots, (so many recent fights have turned on them), and ended it in 8th, a round before Crawford did it. That puts Ortiz, who is now 18-0, all KOs into the middle of the welterweight contenders. I think he might have trouble with Crawford's versatility but it looks like Ortiz could give anybody in the division a battle. Gary Antonio Russell vs. Emmanuel Rodriguez: I like Russell but neither he or his opponent had much of a chance to display their skills, as the fight ended in 16 due to clash of heads that broke Rodriguez's nose and ended the fight a s a no-contest. Joshua Franco vs. Andrew Moloney: I was more interested in the next fight but what i saw of this one was very competitive, although Franco seemed more effective. He's beaten Moloney for the title last year and a rematch was another no contest when Franco's eye swelled shut in the second round. the referee claimed it was a from head butt. Moloney asserted that it was "the result of 50 jabs". Franco proved his superiority tonight. John Riel Casimero vs. Guillermo Rigondeaux: I'm a big fan of boxing as "the manly art of self defense". I like fighters who make the other guy miss and they work their offence out of their defense. Rigondeaux is that rare fighter who loves to humiliate his opponent by making him miss and seems not to care about physically hurting him. Willie Pep is supposed to have won a round without throwing a punch, just from his defensive maneuvering. That appears to be Rigo's ambition. he totally schooled Casimero but didn't do enough to score points for the judges. The fans were booing because neither fighter was landing punches. The punch-count states were that Casimero landed 47 punches in 12 rounds and Rigo landed 44. One judge had Casimero winning 117-111. Another had him winning 116-112. The third had Rigo ahead 115-113. Steve Farhood had it 114-114. For me the difference was that Casi wasn't landing punches because he didn't know how to. Rigo wasn't landing them because he didn't want to unless it was a clean shot, which he landed several times. Rigo made it the fight he wanted and Casi had no idea how to make it the fight he wanted. I'd love to see if Rigo could do that it Inoue, another one of my favorite fighters. [/QUOTE]

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