Congratulations Miami Heat

[Zybomb]

lol

Sorry Im more of a football (pro and college) and boxing guy... no one here really likes boxing, so I feel you...

but I follow what goes on during the regular season and watch the playoffs (hey its kinda hard when your home team is the knicks to get excited!)

[Boobie Lover]

I like boxing.

[Zybomb]

Two potentially great fights on HBO Saturday Night involving 4 undefeated prospects if you haven't heard

The line up starts with two undefeated welterweights, Joel Julio, supposedly the hottest prospect in all of boxing (any division) against undefeated Carlos Quintana. Quintana has a good rep himself and this should be a damn good fight

In the main event American Heavyweight Calvin Brock, who is supposed to the be the biggest (and only) up and coming american heavyweight prospect is taking on undefeated Uzbekistan (sp?) Timor Ibragimov.

I've seen Brock fight Jameel McCline and his last fight against Zuri Lawrence where he knocked him cold with one left hook. Brock looked beatable in both fights, Im not as impressed as everyone seems to be with him, but maybe I'll see after Sat

Ibragimov although undefeated is considered to be the worse of the two cousins (his cousin Sultan is also an active undefeated heavyweight who is supposed to have the greater skills and greater punching power...he will be fighting Ray Austin next month with the winner probably getting a crack at Wladamir Klitschko's IBF title), and is a huge dog on the betting.

Oh and the Winky Taylor fight last week I think was scored correctly, I would have agreed with 115-113 for either fighter or a 114-114 draw....Winky comparing it to the Vargas fight (where he was clearly robbed) is outragous

[Boobie Lover]

Yeah, I saw the Winky fight and his belief he was robbed was outrageous. I had it 115-113 for Taylor.

[Zybomb]

After the hype I wrote up about these two fights geez. Were they ANYTHING but what I expected.

Quintana took Julio to school and exposed him as a one dimensional KO fighter, uncapable of throwing combinations when up against an opponent who moves in and out and feeds him angles. I gave Quintana every round besides the first although there was one middle round which I could have seen either way. How one judge had 115-112 i have no idea... I dont know what they hell they were watching, but it certainly wasnt this fight

The Main Event was a snooze fest to put it lightly. Ibrigimov looked horrendous, all he did was throw one punch at a time (except occassionally double and triple up his jab) and clinch -- he made Ruiz look half decent yuck. The only entertaining part was listening to his trainers comments "Do you wanna quit? Should I stop the fight? (no) THEN FIGHT!" and my favorite "If you don't do something this round, you're gunna come back to this corner and we're not gunna be here anymore...you're gunna be by yourself because we're gunna leave you ". Maybe if he offered his fighter...I dunno SOME ADVICE ON THE FIGHT, he may have done something....speaking of advice, WTF was up with Buddy McGirt telling Joel Julio to NOT look for the knockout and use your jab when going nito the 11th round in a fight he was clearly 5+ pts behind in? He said the same thing to Tarver late in the fight vs Hopkins when the same thing was evident....McGirt is supposed to be a world class trainer....what is he thinking? At least Ibrigimov's guy told him to "let it all go"

As for Brock, he didn't do much either besides land a few combinations in spurts which looked nice.... granted it wasn't an easy fight to look good in because of the 'safety first' style Ibrigimov was fighting, and the excess clinching, but the crowds boos said it all.... HBO must have been pissed, as they were hoping to attract some new fans and showcase some up and coming talent/ prospects, and what they got was two lopsided fights, their welterweight prospect (Julio) humiliated and a main event that was a snoozefest where neither fighter impressed anyone.

Nothing much exciting to look forward to: I'm not real interested in the Vargas/Mosley rematch, the Gatti/Baldomir title fight isn't taken seriously, Karmazin/Spinks will be a bore fest and Vernon Forest and Ike Quarter are both years past their prime... oh and the fact Rahman/Maskev is PPV is just ridiculous, I mean come on.... I'll lok forward to Valuev's US debut in his next title defense, and the Sultan Ibrigimov/ Ray Austin eliminator, although based on his cousin's performance tonight, it leaves me questioning him as well.

The UFC card (which I taped) was half decent at least, with a real good Middleweight final battle