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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3932783, member: 289"] I watched part of the undercard tonight. I saw some of Carlos Castro vs. Oscar Escandon, a good fight, back and forth with the taller, thinner Castro hanging tough and scoring a 9th round KO. I watched the entirety of Mark Magsayo vs. Julio Ceja, a great fight, in which the taller, thinner Magsayo, a Pacquiao protégé, won with a great one-punch kayo. He knocked Ceja down in the first few seconds of the fight but the bullish Ceja shook it off and appeared to be the stronger man, pummeling Magsayo's body until he sagged to the canvas in the 5th. But Masayo survived that and stayed at a distance for the rest of the fight. He split Ceja's defense with right hand in the 9th that put Ceja's lights out. He hit him again as the was going down but Ceja never felt that one. Ceja was on his back for several minutes, then sat up, was walked over to his corner, where he again collapsed. There was concern for him but he finally seemed to recover and left the ring. Robert Guerrero vs. Victor Ortiz, was another good fight but i skipped out on part of it to check the news and weather. Guerrero won the battle of veteran fighters by unanimous decision and the commentators seemed to agree. I bought the fight because I heard it might be Pacquiao's last. I hope it is. He can still fight but his footwork and head movement aren't what they were. He couldn't get away from the taller, thinner Ugas' jab and right hands. Manny still can throw those combinations but he wasn't able to get close enough to the taller man to do much damage. He had to lunge at him to connect and took some shots going in. Ugas, a very good defensive fighter, blocked most of the punches. He constantly moved to his right and kept his left foot even or inside of Manny's, giving him superior leverage. He would have completely dominated the fight but he wasn't busy enough in the early rounds. Then he got down to business and I gave him the last 6 rounds, scoring it 117-112 with the 5th round even. Even those early rounds were Manny's lunging flurries vs. Ugas' more purposeful jab and right cross. many had plenty of energy at the beginning but clearly ran out of gas and had absorbed too much punishment at the end. The punch stats were amazing. Pacquiao threw twice as many punches: 815-405 but Ugas landed more 151-130. He was never in trouble, except on the score cards, (which went 115-113 and 116-1112 twice for Ugas) but he's talking about running for the presidency of the Philippines next May and said that he has more important problems than boxing. He said he was still thinking about his career and the election and would make the decisions later. I wonder if he would continue his boxing career as president of the Philippines? That doesn't make sense but then a lot of what's gone on in recent years doesn't make sense. I don't think that getting hit in the face over and over again wouldn't be very good preparation for becoming president of a country but that, two may be old fashioned thinking. there's been a lot of leaders in recent years who seemed as if they'd taken too many shots to the head. [/QUOTE]

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