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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 5111976, member: 289"] Talent continues to poor into the lightweight division. Tonight's ESPN card included Abdullah Mason (13-0 with 11 knockouts, ranked #27 by Boxrec but shooting upward), Keyshawn Davis (10-0 with 7 KOs, #13), Oshaquie Foster (22-2 with 12 KOs, the #1 superfeather) and Shakur Stevenson (21-0 with 10KOs, ranked the #2 lightweight). All are superb fighters on both offense and defense and all dominated their opponents: respectively Luis Lebron (20-5-1 with 13KOs #158), Miguel Madueno (31-2 with 28KOs, #63), Robson Conceicao (18-2-1 with 9KOs #21) and Artem Harutyunyan (12-1 with 7KOs #45). It would have been better if the top four guys were fighting each other but perhaps they will someday. Mason was the most impressive. He punched holes in Lebron until he sat down twice and the referee stopped it in the third. Maduneo was game but out-gunned. In a rough fight a lot of wrestling holds, it seemed Madueno wanted to quit at one point, grabbing his opponent and holding him on his shoulders. Tim Bradley suggested he was looking to get disqualified. But the fight continued and Maduneo finished it, despite being out-punched 194-63. All three cards were 99-91 for Davis. Foster, a Floyd Mayweather clone, ever let Conceicao hit him with a solid shot and out-punched him 109-76. But Conceicao kept coming forward and that impressed the judges more than Foster's back-off or roll with the punches style and Conceicao got a shocking split decision, winning 115-113 and 116-112 but losing on the other card, 112-16. Mark Kriegel scored it 11-1 for Foster. Everyone seemed to agree it was a "robbery". Stevenson gave another one of his conservative "I'll win on points" performances, which, coming right after the Conceicao-Foster decision seemed dangerous. The first round was nothing: 3 landed punches to 2 for Shakur. He picked up the pace in the second round a bit, 9-5. By the fourth round, he's decided he could stand in front of his foe and trade punched. I actually game Harutyunyan that round but Stevenson's greater hand speed and more direct punches won the next five rounds. He found that his opponent didn't like body shots and became the aggressor, stopping Harutyunyan in his tracks and forcing him backwards. A knockout seemed imminent but Stevenson then backed off and allowed Harutyunyan to get a second wind, (I have him the 10th round) before putting a cap on it by winning the final two rounds. 118-111 on my card. No surprises this time: 119-109, 118-110 and 116-112. Stevenson outpunched him 170-74. He has the largest ratio of punched landed to punches taken in the sport. He said before the fight that he wants to prove himself "The Man". Well, The Man got booed by his own fans tonight. [/QUOTE]

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