Thomas Williams Jr vs. Gabriel Campillo

[jujigatame]

Best FNF main event in a while and a quality crossroads fight. Williams has been turning the corner from prospect to contender and Campillo is 35 and in danger of becoming irrelevant.

Williams has been showing more power lately and Campillo still has skill but has been getting slower and more chinny. I think I got Williams via mid-round TKO.

[diddy]

Williams.

[Woldemar]

Williams TKO 7

[pugilisticprofessor]

Campillo is shot, totally shot, he may last 5 rounds, best main event in a while? I think not

[Dennis]

Williams should win this one.
What about the rest of the card?
Andre Dirrell vs Biosse?
I have Dirrell winning by stoppage in 6 rounds or less.
I started a thread with the whole card listed as it stands right now.

[jujigatame]

Campillo is shot, totally shot, he may last 5 rounds, best main event in a while? I think not

FNF has been pretty awful this year so far. Only around 3-4 cards have gotten my interest at all.

Also, you're being a little harsh on Campillo. Who has he actually lost to? Kovalev, who is a complete monster, and Fonfara, who gave Stevenson a very tough test.

[Yes We Can]

Williams should win this one.
What about the rest of the card?
Andre Dirrell vs Biosse?
I have Dirrell winning by stoppage in 6 rounds or less.
I started a thread with the whole card listed as it stands right now.

Biosse got outclassed over 10rds by Callum Smith, so realle Dirrell should be getting him out of there if he still has immediate world class ambitions.

[Coachmanager]

I didn't like how Campillo fought against Ricky Pow, he received many shots, but well he really damaged Pow. Against Fonfara he fought pretty good, but he showed zero motivation to be punishment. So let's see this Friday, it would be good that he recovers his level.

[diddy]

Williams stinks. 5 rounds in and he's already done.

Go back to fighting scrubs, dude.

[crusader]

Exposed.

Campillo's still got a bit left.

[Boxing Prospect]

Exposed? Nah. People just wrote off Campillo FAR too easily.

[crusader]

I'd say he was exposed.

He was a clear favorite and this was supposed to be his spring-board to the next level, but he quit almost as soon as things got difficult. He definitely got found out to some extent.

[Boxing Prospect]

I'd say he was exposed.

He was a clear favorite and this was supposed to be his spring-board to the next level, but he quit almost as soon as things got difficult. He definitely got found out to some extent.

He got exposed mentally but though many had given him the fight before the first punch was thrown as if Campillo was done. Campillo's record is misleading as hell (getting jobbed to Cloud and Shumenov in the US for example) and is still a very good second tier fighter.

[crusader]

I agree, but I still think there were many reasons to believe Williams was going to win and perhaps win impressively. Tonight we saw that he's not at that level, and given how easily he caved once it got tough I'm not sure he'll ever be.

[eastezrider]

Williams should win this one.
What about the rest of the card?
Andre Dirrell vs Biosse?
I have Dirrell winning by stoppage in 6 rounds or less.
I started a thread with the whole card listed as it stands right now.

Was I imagining things or did Biosse have "BoxRec" Label on his Trunks?

...and yeah, Williams was about as lame as Teddy's Kung Fu analogies...

[world ranked]

He was winning the fight and just quit. Campillo is still done. Williams just didn't know how to handle a cut.

[crusader]

I had it 3-2 Campillo

[ikorolev]

Now they will be interviewing Williams. Why not Campillo ???

[eastezrider]

Now they will be interviewing Williams. Why not Campillo ???

Not sure that being down on your knees apologizing to Teddy is "technically" an interview... besides top o'the hour mate... gotta replay shemale tennis...

[TheBeast]

12 light heavyweight
Thomas Williams Jr 17(12)-0-0
vs
Gabriel Campillo 23(10)-6(3)-1



Campillo upsets Williams Jr
Fight stopped on cuts between rounds





Hls of the card here for those who missed it:
http://www.the13thround.com/phpBB2/view ... 6#p1492466


ENJOY!!

[diddy]

Williams was going to lose all the remaining rounds. He was running and out of sorts. If you can't handle a cut you can't handle this sport.

[Coachmanager]

Two judges had the fight 49-46 to Williams.................

[handsofstone]

Didnt see that one coming,i suppose we just found out that Wiliams doesnt have the fighting heart to succeed at a higher level,i didnt think the cut was that bad or even bleeding that much but either way it affected Williams Jr bigtime,especially with the ref saying from the off that it was a punch that caused it you would have thought Thomas would have tryed to fight through it a bit longer and TBH nothing in his reaction after the fight suggested to me he has the heart for it

Im happy for Campillo,he's one of the good guys who deserved it

[crusader]

Two judges had the fight 49-46 to Williams.................

They were generous to him then in my view.

Like Alan Krebs I had it 48-47 Campillo, giving only the first two to Williams. I thought Campillo won two of his rounds clearly while the other was a toss-up, so I think 48-47 either way is fine.

i didnt think the cut was that bad or even bleeding that much but either way it affected Williams Jr bigtime

I can't recall someone reacting so badly to a cut like that. Fighters get those all the time and continue as if nothing happened, but Williams looked distraught. I don't like to right off fighters after one loss, especially when it's against a quality opponent like Campillo, but I doubt Williams has the heart to go much further than he has and I think this is a case where it's appropriate to say that someone got exposed.

[world ranked]

Williams was going to lose all the remaining rounds. He was running and out of sorts. If you can't handle a cut you can't handle this sport.

That's a assumption he was winning on two cards and the other had campillo up either why you slice it was close fight at the time. Being cut for the first time had more to do with than being hurt he was hitting Campillo with the harder and cleaner shots and was never in any danger of being hurt or stopped.