Tuesday, September 9, 2008

BOXING: TYC Sports 9/6/08

Oh, how I love the dish and all its programming. It seems almost infinite in volume and it is all so great. TYC Sports is a great example of this. They're a sports channel from Argentina that has boxing almost weekly, and there's even world title bouts on the network that are not otherwise televised.

SERGIO SANDERS vs. CLAUDIO SOLIS: Of the three fights on the show, this is the one that interested me most. Sanders is 15-0-1. Solis is 8-6.

Sanders is clearly the larger man and tries to dictate the fight's distance with his reach, while Solis wildly rushes. Sanders has some good body punches but lacks head movement and looks very robotic and stiff. Its a total shut out in the first 4 rounds, then Sanders drops Solis twice in round 5. Early in round 6 Solis' corner tosses in the towel. I'm not impressed with Sanders. He's gonna get brutally KOed someday soon.

Interesting note: Round 11 of Juarez/Barrios is shown here. Wonder how HBO feels about that?

DAVID PARED vs. LUCAS AYOROA: Pared is 9-0-1 and Ayoroa is 2-3-1. Standard Argentinian matchmaking.

Pared knocks down Ayoroa with a left hook to the head in round one but can't finish. As the fight goes on, his defense is clearly not very good, his offense lacks in numerous departments, and frankly, he's not all that good a fighter. Ayoroa actually lands some blows in the 4th that bother Pared but he loses every round to a 40-35 card from me and similar ones from the judges at ringside.

GUMERSINDO CARRASCO vs. LUIS NIETO: Carrasco is making his pro debut. Nieto is a 2-1-1 fighter of no real note. Carrasco did participate in a couple international tourneys but didn't do that well.

Nieto is dropped early in the first and the ref is late in stepping in. As a result, Carrasco lands an uppercut to a downed Nieto that puts him out cold. Towel is thrown in and Carrasco wins.

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