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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4258863, member: 289"] I watched the DAZN presentation tonight. It was hard to concentrate in the action in the ring with about several gorgeous females wearing dresses that displayed most of their large mammary glands in the second row opposite the main camera. Fortunately, the fighters seemed to concentrate on each other. In the prelims a huge Chinese dude named Zhang Zhilei faced someone named Scott Alexander who advertised himself as “The One”, which was apparently a reference to the round in which he would be knocked out. Zhang zinged him with a punch right down the pipe to the left side of his face that had Alexander’s eyes rolling upward before he hit the canvas. Zhang’s own nickname is “The Big Bang”. Hey, put him in with Fury! The best preliminary was a battle between “Wonder Boy” Shakhram Giyasou took on Christian Gomez, who was 22-0 with 20 knockouts. Giyasou used movement and a great jab to dominate the fight, landing an occasional left hook, three times sending Gomez to the floor, (I actually thought it was four, but one was ruled something else). But Gomez was dangerous throughout and rocked Giyasoua few times. But Wonder Boy managed to stay on his feet and that won him the fight. Montana Love and Gabriel Golla Valenzuela both knocked each other down early and spent the rest of the fight trying to avoid each other’s punches to the boos of the crowd. They were trying to counter-punch each other and that doesn’t work. Love was a bit busier and got the decision. Canelo Alvarez finally met his match vs. Dimitri Bivol, a taller man with a piston-like jab and the ability to throw quick, accurate combinations. He also had excellent footwork. He shot punches right down the middle that weren’t strong enough to rock Canelo but were able to drive him backwards and in a defensive position. They also reddened his face and produced an exasperated look on Canelo’s face that was probably worth a knockdown, although one never came. Canelo’s plan was to throw right and left hooks and an occasional uppercut and do it with enough power to rock Bivol, which he never did. Bivol’s rate of throwing punches seemed to slacken in the middle of the fight and Canelo was able to drive him back with some big shots. I thought Bivol was going to run out of gas as Caleb Plant did after an initially impressive performance. But Bivol got a second wind and I gave him the last three rounds of the fight to win it, 115-113. The commentators described a fight that wasn’t as close as all that, marveling at Bivol’s disciplined fight plan and accurate combinations. The punch count also suggested a wider margin of victory: Bivol landed 152 punches to 84 for Canelo. He also threw 710 punches to 495, connecting on 21% to 17%. But the judge’s cards were all the same: 115-113. Anyway, the right guy won. There’s now talk of a rematch. Camelo would be better off fighting a third fight with GGG or taking on the Charlos. And I still think Bud Crawford is the best fighter in the world right now. [/QUOTE]

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