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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 5108176, member: 289"] ESPN had three interesting fights tonight. Muhammed Ali's grandson, Nico Ali Walsh won a unanimous decision over Sona Akale, (middleweights), despite dislocating his left shoulder late in the fight. As the announcer kept screaming, "The bone is sticking out!" but Walsh kept fighting as he had a substantial lead in the scoring and the night's only knockdown. I didn't see any bone but there was considerable redness in the shoulder and Walsh actually kept punching himself in that shoulder to knock it back into place. He threw no left hand punches in the last round, (fortunately, for him, it was just a 6 round fight), and couldn't even lift that arm to defend himself on that side. But he was able to maneuver away from Akale, who didn't seem to realize Walsh's limitations and didn't throw very many right hands at him. I'm still not sure what Walsh's future is in the middleweight division but anyone would have to be impressed with what he did tonight. He even did the post-fight interview before going to the hospital, although he had to be in great pain. Robeisy Ramirez, a Cuban featherweight ranked #5 in the world, beat up Brandon Benitez, a Mexican ranked 37, thoroughly out-boxing and outpunching him. The coup-de-gras was an uppercut that seemed to come directly upward from the canvas that immediately put his lights out. Benitez regained consciousness quickly and tried to get up but his legs would not respond and the fight was over. Ramirez might be a good match for the mighty Inoue. He bobs and weaves back and forth and throws punches from angles his opponents didn't know existed. I'd never heard of Steve Claggett but he was a perpetual motion machine, always moving forward with his fists up in a "peek-a-boo" defense but throwing piston-like punches. The problem was, despite his 26 knock-outs, none of them had much effect on Lopez and Claggett was strickly a two dimensional fighter who did everything along a straight line. Lopez moved back and fourth and punched from various angles. He landed huge number of punches but none of them staggered the game Claggett. But he was able to get enough distance between him and Claggett to dominate the fight. I gave Lopez every round, although each one was competitive. I start to worry about 'game' fighters that eat leather for 12 rounds but Claggett held up very well. Talent won out. But Lopez wants Crawford and that's the deep end of the boxing pool. Claggett was splashing around on the kiddie end. And the tremendous power Lopez seemed to have as a lightweight has not followed him into the welterweight division. [/QUOTE]

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