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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4632775, member: 289"] I shifted my attention back and forth between the DAZN, Showtime and ESPN cards last night, It was good to see some boxing again after concentrating so much on basketball in recent weeks. I didn't try to score anything so I'll just make some observations. [B]DAZN[/B]: I saw Ramiero Cesina, (the #50 junior lightweight per Boxrec, 16-1, 13-1)), give #23, (21-3-1 with 16KOs), Thomas Mattice plenty of trouble with an aggressive style and short, direct punches early on, Mattice tried to out-box him but got caught several times. But Cesina ran out of gas and Mattice began to unload off of him. The ref stopped it in the 10th, to the consternation of many, including the announcers, one of whom said "he still had his hands up". My benchmark is if the guy is punching back. He wasn't. Raymond Ford the #10 featherweight, (14-0-1, 7KOs) won a unanimous decision over #31 Jessie Magdalino, (29-1, 18-1). I can't say much about this one as more exciting fights were on the other networks. #5 junior featherweight Murdodjon Akhmadaliev, (11-0 with 8 kayos) got off to a bad start vs. #3 Marlon Tapales, (37-3, 19-2), and it held up despite Akhmadaliev doing some damage in the later rounds, Tapales winning a split decision in an action fight. Jesse 'Bam' Rodriguez, Boxrec's #1 featherweight had trouble with #27 Cristian Gonzalez's height, reach and boxing ability but won the day with sharper punching, especially to the body for a unanimous decision. [B]Showtime[/B] had Luis Nunez, (18-0, 13KO), the #32 featherweight against #44 Christian Olivo, (20-0-1, 7KO) and Olivo looked like the winner to me, especially after dominating the alter rounds. But Nunez got a unanimous decision, including a 100-90 score form a judge Steve Farhood said he'd never heard of. When is boxing going to go to some kind of electronic scoring, maybe with sensors in the gloves or something like that? Much hyped and super confident Brandun Lee, (#19 junior welterweight, 27-0 with 23 kayos, 13 in the first round) had all he could handle against sharp-punching #45 Pedro Campa (34-2-1, 23-2). lee was full of moves, even clowning to the crowd, but he was also getting hit by Campa, especially since he failed to maintain the proper distance for his punches. At the end the there was another unanimous decision, with surprising margins of victory for the higher-rated fighter, amid some boos and amazement by the commentators. Then came Sebastian Fundora, the freakish 6-5 junior welter, nicknames "The Towering Inferno", (#2, 20-0-1 with 13 KOs). He was asked about his opponent, 5-10 Brian Mendoza, (#19 21-2 with 15KO), and said he hadn't even thought about him: My opponent doesn't matter." well, this one mattered and he flattened Fundora in the 7th round. That's can't have been much fun. ESPN: #52 lightweight Keyshaun Davis (7-0, 5KOs) dominated #81 Anthony Yight, (he's a Yightweight) of Sweden, (26-2-1, 10-2), nailing him with a body shot in the 9th round. heavily muscled, (and shiny) Jared Anderson the #30 heavyweight, (13-, all knockouts)who advertises himself as "the Real Big Baby", (to separate himself from Big Baby Miller, who has run afoul of drug suspensions), demolished #32 George Arias (18-0 with 7 kayos), in three rounds by throwing haymaker after haymaker. He reminded me of a young George Foreman. Both Davis and Andersson looked ready for some higher rated opposition. Shakur Stephenson , the #1 lightweight, per Box rec, over Tank Davis, Devin Haney and Vasil Lomachenko, even though he's just moved up to that division, (Shakur is rated #6 pound for pound), (19-0, 9-0), dominated Shyichiro Yoshino, (#8, 16-0 with 12KO) before the ref stopped it in the 6th round. This one seemed a bit early to me but Yoshino was clearly out-classed and wasn't going to win anyway. Shakur is learning to use his defensive skills to set up his offense and be more aggressive. That's knockout total is going to grow and he's going to be a force in boxing's best decision. Now they can beging the haggling over who he's going to fight among all those name fighters. [/QUOTE]

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