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BroughtonRulesRefuge wrote:

witherspoon wrote: Holmes v Mercer - a great, old fighter defying his age.

I would like to call out whoever it was who said Mercer was robbed. I distinctly remember reading such a comment very recently on this board. Please justify!
I never heard Mercer complain. RING GENERALSHIP! look it up.

- I said Holmes didn't beat Mercer, not even close. Not a robbery because Mercer was more interested in acting like a lazy thug. He POed the judges.

He almost broke Holmes' neck after choking him out. He was lazy though, and more interested in trapping him in the corner and then slapping him with little taps. Holmes was feisty, but he spent most of the time illegally grabbing the ropes which he started doing late in his title days as his legs went, and backed to the ropes. Mercer could've imposed his considerable strength advantage over Holmes, but probably wasn't in first rate shape and chose to coast.

At any rate, it was the only significant bout Holmes won in his comeback. He was literally the 250lb weakling of the division.

Datsue wrote:
Then it was Wilfredo Gomez TKO 14 Lupe Pintor. Unbelievable. Gets better every time I watch it.

Counter-puncher wrote:

Datsue wrote:
Then it was Wilfredo Gomez TKO 14 Lupe Pintor. Unbelievable. Gets better every time I watch it.

i watched that last night too, as it happens. do you always end up shouting at Gomez for the flagrant elbows and low blows, too?

Datsue wrote:

Counter-puncher wrote:

Datsue wrote:
Then it was Wilfredo Gomez TKO 14 Lupe Pintor. Unbelievable. Gets better every time I watch it.

i watched that last night too, as it happens. do you always end up shouting at Gomez for the flagrant elbows and low blows, too?

Yeah, he was one of those not-even sneaky fvckers that really annoy me, like Cotto. If you're gonna stick the elbow in at least make an attempt to disguise it, FFS. Also, Gomez was wilting from left hooks to the bottom of the lat/floating rib area a half-dozen times, & managed to get four or five called low, when they landed about six inches north of the border!

I, too have the nasty habit of offering fighters advice from my TV screen. When Hearns starts to wilt versus Leonard, you should hear me; girlfriend gives me some funny looks, I tells ya.

The way Pintor & Gomez put it to one another is just insane, though.

Robinson wrote:Holmes vs Spinks II
Jimmerson vs Andries
Holmes vs Norton

are the bouts I watched over the last couple of days.

Datsue wrote:Jeff Harding vs Dennis Andries I.

Insane fight. Harding's left hooks to the bottom of the lat decide it, after the Aussie soaks up all the bombs in the world. He just wore Andries out.