Vajramusti
05-31-2008, 07:13 AM
HBO generally has better boxing than Showtime-but last night Showtime had a a couple of good matches.
1.A Cruiserweight championship match.An unorthodox American versus the reigning French man
with power in both hands.I am sometimes poor in remembering names...always so..not just recenty. The Frenchman won the first rounds--but by the 9th or tenth round he began to run out of gas. In the 12th he was knocked out. The American does yoga and meditates conserves his energy well but he was also in tip top shape.
Implication?..In competition- activity specific conditioning counts.
2. The reigning welterweight v Brooklyn's Zab Judah. Our KFO's Phil Redmond years back trained kick boxing with Zab's father Yoel. Zab hasa great straight left as a southpaw. He stands somewhat sideways-hasa good right jab and the left comes booming right behind it. Argentina's(Santa Fe, Argentina) Bladimir is slower but no slouch-stands relatively square and swings with either hand ususally going forward. Zab sometimes has had a jaw problem but bounces back.
Close match in Zab's NYC backyard. Contrary to the press corp's judgement the judges IMO correctly gave the match to Bladimir. Zab as he has done before showed lack of grace- beginning with punching Bladimir near the groin instead of just touching hands at the beginning
and then blaming practically everyone else except himself after the fight.Of course Don King deserves most of criticism thrown at him....most of the time.
Implication? Of course the individual is a big variable but Bladimir's more square body stance with both hands working neutralized Zab's efforts with uppercuts. But longevity in boxing is relatively short...before slowdown and alzheimer creeps up.
Phil probably didnt see the fight(?). They will probably replay the fight again soon.
joy chaudhuri
1.A Cruiserweight championship match.An unorthodox American versus the reigning French man
with power in both hands.I am sometimes poor in remembering names...always so..not just recenty. The Frenchman won the first rounds--but by the 9th or tenth round he began to run out of gas. In the 12th he was knocked out. The American does yoga and meditates conserves his energy well but he was also in tip top shape.
Implication?..In competition- activity specific conditioning counts.
2. The reigning welterweight v Brooklyn's Zab Judah. Our KFO's Phil Redmond years back trained kick boxing with Zab's father Yoel. Zab hasa great straight left as a southpaw. He stands somewhat sideways-hasa good right jab and the left comes booming right behind it. Argentina's(Santa Fe, Argentina) Bladimir is slower but no slouch-stands relatively square and swings with either hand ususally going forward. Zab sometimes has had a jaw problem but bounces back.
Close match in Zab's NYC backyard. Contrary to the press corp's judgement the judges IMO correctly gave the match to Bladimir. Zab as he has done before showed lack of grace- beginning with punching Bladimir near the groin instead of just touching hands at the beginning
and then blaming practically everyone else except himself after the fight.Of course Don King deserves most of criticism thrown at him....most of the time.
Implication? Of course the individual is a big variable but Bladimir's more square body stance with both hands working neutralized Zab's efforts with uppercuts. But longevity in boxing is relatively short...before slowdown and alzheimer creeps up.
Phil probably didnt see the fight(?). They will probably replay the fight again soon.
joy chaudhuri