Round 4:
Larsen is handling Cocco in pretty much all respects here. Cocco wants to press and his best bet at the moment is to just headbutt the former contender. Its kinda funny to watch Cocco because he fights like a Filipino: Very compact, arms in, big looping rights.
40-36 Larsen
Round 5:
The reason people hate buying PPVs like this is because the undercards are generally so rough. Cocco is throwing one jab at a time and has no real defense for a right hook lead to the body. I repeat: no defense for lead right hooks to the body. I don't care if Larsen's a southpaw, you shouldn't land that under any circumstances. Even guys who lead with hooks like Wladimir Klitschko at least hook off the jab.
50-45 Larsen
Round 6:
Cocco looks like a second rate journeyman against Larsen, who is definititely a second rate journeyman. I think that speaks volumes of the quality of bout presented here. Maybe Larsen could fight a guy like Lacy? That wouldn't be half bad as far as faded ex contenders go.
Cocco is soldiering on and he's just getting tore up. Around the 1:15 mark in the round he takes about 4 body shots in combination, with nothing coming back. His plan is clearly to withstand the punishment and, uhh, do something afterwards. Thing is, Madsen isn't really using up lots of his energy. The announcers (Al Bernstein and Nick Charles) then discuss Jeff Lacy and his overreliance on physical talent over actual skills. Maybe it was good matchmaking too, you know.
60-54 Larsen
Round 7
They're really putting over Larsen as a legitimate contender and while I suppose there's worse things to happen, does anyone really want to see Larsen/Froch? Honestly?
Cocco is "probably losing this fight" which is an understatement to say the least. Larsen knocks down Cocco and the ref decides not to count it. Cocco is getting ruined in this round with uppercuts and is sent stumbling and stops the bout. Not a bad performance for Larsen. On second thought, forget Lacy. We know he has nothing left. Bute would be good. Kessler should be fighting better but its probably a money fight.
And we get something on tape! Oh joy! Too bad its women's boxing for some flyweight title.
Eileen Olzsewski is from Hawaii by way of NYC and is 40. Nadia Raoul apparently is German and good or something.
Round 1
Olzsewski is fighting tall and has a pretty impressive right hand. Raoul is pretty wild coming in, but the fight is, uh, okay. Passable, I suppose. I give the first to the American.
Olezsewski 10-9
Round 2
Bernstein and Charles talk about how great women's boxing while alternately talking about how there are no decent fighters but that the crowd seems to like it. In other words, they say nothing about the fight. I try to pay attention but my cat is trying to climb into my christmas tree. I'll let it do its thing. Meanwhile, Raoul(e?) is dominant in the round as the American can't seem to deal with the always challenging advanced technique of jab/right hand.
19-19
Round 3
Wild swinging that reminds one of low level MMA. Talk of the Sanders/Holm PPV that 5 people bought. Raoul is just brawlin' away and damaging her American foe with relative ease. Olezsewski's jab is useless.
29-28, Raoul
Round 4
Olezsewski's just not capable of handling the pressure fighting style of her German foe. She lacks the technical skill to keep Raoule off her and is caught with all sorts of looping shots as she pulls straight back. Mr. Sauerland gets some TV time. I am thinking about reheating pizza.
39-37, Raoul(i? e?)
Round 5
Good 'ol Willy Sauerland is credited by the announcers for helping make boxing huge in Germany and Europe as a whole in recent years. How nice of them.
Olezsewski's counter punching is so light but she's got a pretty good chin. She pushes all her punches while the German girl at least puts her body into them. Additionally, Raoule is landing at a far better rate.
49-46, Raouley
Round 6
Olezsewski is trained by her husband who she met while she was apparently a dancer for the Knicks. Also: She would be the ugliest Knicks dancer EVER.
Olezsewski is now circling a little and trying to use movement to gain the advantage after being outworked the last 5 rounds. Every exchange is won by Raoule. Olezsewski's hands are way down, a stark contrast to the beginning of the fight. She's wearing down.
59-55, Rauoli
Round 7
Apparently Maskaev has been promised a shot at the winner of Vitali Klitschko/Gomez. I think that would matter more if I believed Gomez/Vitali Klitschko was ever gonna happen. I say this because its more important than a P4P for this fight.
Raoule is starting to grunt when she punches. That's the next piece of news I can reasonably give. Also: Raoule is still outlanding and hitting harder.
69-64, Reuli
Round 8
Olezsewski ends up taking a bunch of punches to the grill the second the round starts. You know, that pugilist nose is not something this girl needs to look her best. Her punches are hella slow and she doesn't seem to land them unless she is timing Raoul. Some nice uppercuts from Raoul in this round when she gets inside. Honestly, Olezsewski's husband/corner should think about packing this up.
79-73, Raeouli
Round 9
Somewhere in the background, the Simpsons theme plays. Sounds like a cellphone. Fight is at a good clip, sez Charles, and I agree. Its pretty one sided though.
89-82 Reyouli
Round 10
10th and final round! Hooray! Admittedly, this will be better than Valuev/Holyfield unless it turns out to be a fixed fight, which there's some signs pointing to it perhaps being in favor of Commander 'Vander.
Good action in this round with both just throwing bombs and Raoul being much more effective. Actually not a bad fight. Raoul wins on my card 99-91 in a blowout.
96-95 for Olezsewski
96-96 Draw
98-92 for Raoul
Bizarre scorecards, honestly. Among the worst of the year.
Now they're prepping for the main. Lots of talk about how Evander keeps talking about how he can't get off and has been doing that for like, I dunno, a decade.
Grandiose entrance time and the string group doing the anthems. Oh, Germany.
Round 1
Valuev has thrown next to nothing early on, which is like the opposite of his reputation. Just sayin'. Holy is moving pretty decently. Nothing on Valuev's shots either. Holyfield with round 1.
10-9 Holyfield
Round 2
Valuev is on the take, folks. He is giving this fight away. No effort whatsoever.
20-18 Holyfield
Round 3
More of Valuev doing nothing. Best punch is a Holyfield right hand. I think Valuev is gonna end up "koed".
30-27 Holyfield.
Round 4
Case study, kids. Case study. You'll talk about this for years for the wrong reasons.
40-36, Holyfield
Round 5
I'm sitting here considering what's going on. Switzerland has no commission and some interesting banking rules. Valuev hates boxing and a big payday from this would allow him to retire. Sauerland wants Chagaev to hold onto his belt for as long as possible, and Holyfield/Chagaev would do lots fo help that. Don King wants one more payday for Holyfield. All around, this is crap. Holyfield won this round off a single right hand.
50-45, Holyfield
Round 6
Awful.
60-54, Holy
Round 7
Valuev's best round. Holyfield lands about 2-3 overhand rights though that are better than anything done by Nikolay.
70-63, Holyfield.
Round 8
Holyfield maybe throws 5 punches, so Valuev wins.
79-73, Holyfield.
Round 9
There are people who believe this is legit. LOL. How deluded.
89-82, Holyfield
Round 10
Nick Charles: "Valuev has done nothing to win it, and done everything to lose it."
99-91, Holyfield
Round 11
Charles and Bernstein haven't broached the question of whether or not something illegal was at play, but they've done a great job of burying Holyfield. At least there is some honesty. Valuev wins the round thanks to Holyfield throwing less than ten punches.
108-101, Holyfield.
Round 12
No urgency from Valuev. Holyfield gets cornered easily when Valuev seems to not even try, which tells you everything you need to know.
117-111, Holyfield.
116-112, 115-114, 114-114 for Valuev? LOL. Oh my god.
Holyfield can't form a coherent sentence and you come away from this fight thinking that Carl King must be furious dealing with someone even better at "the game" than he. If you buy into the idea that Valuev was legitimately trying to win, then it was the worst performance of his life. If you think it was all fraudlent, you're wondering where the time went.
2 comments:
Valuev by majority!!!!!!
WTF?
had five live blogs at the same time,all had holyfield by far...crazy...this is stupid
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