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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4046061, member: 289"] After the dust had settled on the football day, I watched two great action fights. I had David Benavidez vs. Kyrone Davis on the TV through Showtime and Jaime Munguia vs. Gabriel Rosado streaming on my computer through DAZN. the fights were similar in that a young prospect with a glittering record was taking on a veteran fighter who had been in with some of the best in the division. In both cases the young prospect won but the veteran fighter gave him all he could want. 24 year old, 6-0 1/2 Benavidez, (25-0, 22-0 KOs) towered over the 5-10 Davis, (16-2-1, 6-1 KOs) (the height gap seemed bigger than that) but Davis was aggressive at the beginning and feisty at the end. Every time Benavidez seemed to have him in trouble, Davis would respond with a flurry. He couldn't hurt the bigger man but he made him know he was in a fight. But the damage accumulated and Davis' corner told him that he had to do more than rope-a-dope and counter punch or the fight would be stopped. They finally threw in the towel in the 9th round. Benavidez had a big advantage in reach and power but couldn't take Davis out. Benavidez took to dropping his arms and daring Davis to come after him. I'm not sure how well that would go over against a better opponent. It was not a dazzling performance, even though it turned out to be effective enough. 25 year old Munguia (38-0, 30-0 KOs), had blown away most of his opponents but he couldn't blow away Gabe Rosado (26-13-1, 15-4 KOs), who was of a similar size but more muscular with much better tattoos. He, too tried to counter-punch and it appeared he punched harder than Munguia but less often and the broadcasters wondered why he didn't go to the body more. Munguia has a nice jab and can throw extended combinations with excellent speed. he really went after Rosado but never seemed to hurt him so he just piled up the points, enough to win in a virtual shut-out. But Rosado had plenty of moments, turning Jaime's head with several shots and wrestling him to ground once. But he couldn't handle the volume of punches. Benevidez didn't strike me as a likely champion, (in the sense of being the best fighter in the division, (he's a super-middle). of course, everybody ahs some kind of title these days. Munguia seems a better fighter but the inability to get Rosado out of these is a concern. he was a big knockout guy against lesser fighters but his future isn't against lesser fighters. I actually think that what won him the fight: throwing a high volume of punches, prevented him from getting his full weight behind them and thus prevented the knock-out. [/QUOTE]

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