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mikey very good but maybe not so hurtful at 140. did score a kd but i never felt lipinets was in that much trouble and he did take shots without running or being that negative.

did some okay work of his own and had mikeys nose bleeding pretty good at one point, but too much class from mikey

this fight makes me think 140 may not be a total calk walk for mikey, even if hes the best guy

the bill is on again now which is a shock as BN normally don't reshow fights till much later which i could never understand

paddy chavez wrote: ↑11 Mar 2018, 07:18 the bill is on again now which is a shock as BN normally don't reshow fights till much later which i could never understand

Yeh, I was just re-watching it too..

Thoroughly deserved win for Relikh, talk about wanting it more(119-109), his desire twinned with Barthelemy's total lack of desire meant there was only gonna be one winner, I'm glad he never got shafted on the cards, Barthelemy was clearly the sharper fighter and he has a great defence, most of Relikh's punches landed on the gloves but he was just so busy he never stopped pushing out the punches, its surprising he has so many KOs, theres not much snap on his shots but for sheer workrate it would've been hard to hang with him, his jab was great too, he mustve threw 100 punches a round

Barthelemy was poor even by his own standards, he's quick but just had zero fight in him, really poor effort

handsofstone wrote: ↑11 Mar 2018, 13:33 Thoroughly deserved win for Relikh, talk about wanting it more(119-109), his desire twinned with Barthelemy's total lack of desire meant there was only gonna be one winner, I'm glad he never got shafted on the cards, Barthelemy was clearly the sharper fighter and he has a great defence, most of Relikh's punches landed on the gloves but he was just so busy he never stopped pushing out the punches, its surprising he has so many KOs, theres not much snap on his shots but for sheer workrate it would've been hard to hang with him, his jab was great too, he mustve threw 100 punches a round

Barthelemy was poor even by his own standards, he's quick but just had zero fight in him, really poor effort

Barthelemy has always been pretty bad. Relikh was robbed the first time. Barthelemy won't be getting on TV again I'd say. He's terrible to watch.

I had Garcia winning 116-111, decent performance but a bit slow and flat at the new weight, not as good as he was up at WW against Broner even, the fight never really got going, there were some moments when it threatened to burst into life but I thought Garcia fought within himself, he couldn't miss with the right hands but he stopped throwing them for long spells, Lipinets took them well and it was the left hooks which seemed to hurt him, the knockdown in the 7th was top class from Garcia but he chose to stay patient and box Lipinets which allowed Lipinets to come into it more and he nailed Garcia with some flush punches which MIkey took well TBF

Lipinets kept on coming and did try to win at least but the quality of Garcia's punches were the difference, i'd like to see Garcia back down to LW

I was really impressed with Lipinets.
Showed good variation. Footwork was as good as I’ve seen from him aswell.

Gave Garcia a tougher fight than I imagined.

I can see Lipinets beating a lot of the divisions top 10 if he gets other title opportunities.

Barthelemy was bad even by Barthelemy standards.

Relikh won a near shutout withhout doing anything different to any of his other fights.

Nothing more frustrating than seeing a Cuban with ZERO ambition in a boxing ring.

Seems to be a bit of negativity around Mikey's performance. I thought he was good. Jab followed by the right hand worked well and he was landing the left hook as well. His footwork and balance is world class. He did look a little bit soft so maybe he should go back to 135 for now if he lacks a bit of pop at 140. Maybe Lipinets just has a really good chin though, we don't know yet.

I'd like to see him fight some top names at lightweight and maybe let someone establish themselves as #1 at 140 before going back up to beat them. If he beats all the guys coming through at 140 now (Lipinets, Prograis, Relikh etc) before they've really cemented themselves as top fighters he probably won't get much credit anyway.

147 seems a bit of a stretch.