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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4483537, member: 289"] I just watched the Teofimo Lopez-Sandor Martin and Terrence Crawford-David Avanesyan fight, one on my TV in one room, the other on my computer and an adjacent room. Under the circumstances I felt I couldn't score the fights so I'll just record my observations and reactions here. Lopez was the aggressor throughout his fight, and he got in some good shots but also had trouble finding the elusive, counter-punching Martin, who had pretty good hand speed. Martin suffered a broken nose on an unintentional head but in the first round and could no longer breathe through it still went the distance, (10 rounds). Martin evens cored a flash knockdown in the second round. It seemed to me that Lopez won the rest of the rounds by being busier and more aggressive. The commentators thought the decision could go either way and Martin was upset when he lost. On judge had it for him, 95-94. Another had it 96-93 for Lopez and the third had it 97-92 for Lopez. That seemed the best card to me, but the commentators were shocked by it. martin had said before the fight that his big advantage is that he took boxing seriously and trained hard while Lopez "did interviews and went shopping". Maybe Teo is having a hard time refinding the dedication he had when he beat Lomachenko, but I thought he won this one comfortably. Crawford faced a tough Russian named David Avanesyan who kept advancing toward him despite eating a steady diet of leather from various angles from the guy I think is the best fighter in the world. He didn't seem too effected by all those punches, leading me to wonder if Crawford had lost some power going into the full welterweight division, (I wondered the same thing about Lopez fighting junior welters.) But Crawford stopped moving away from Avanesyan and started trading power punches with him. He absorbed some shots but answered with interest and the Russians' machine started to malfunction as his face started to show wear and tear. Bud found the uppercut to be a good weapon and in the 6th round he followed on with a right cross that flattened his opponent for the win. You wondered what would happen if the guy coming toward him for those six rounds had been Errol Spence. [/QUOTE]

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