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So what did everyone think of the card... It was a good night of boxing and thanks to sky for showing most of the undercard. Rock Allen looks to be a good prospect in the making, I have been impressed with each showing of his.

To be honest, I haven't seen all the Diaz fight yet - but the bits I've seen he looks good.... I would like to see more variety in his work, but even with his style I think he'll be around for a LONG time to come.

Now Daniel Ponce De Leon is an interesting fighter - as Johnny Nelson said looks so beatable but can absolutely whack. Call me crazy but my immediate thoughts after that fight, even when the opponent was still face first on the canvas was.... Can he do that to Wayne McCullough? I think he will be a champion who might struggle to get the big fights cause he looks so bad but so dangerous. If he can KO Wayne, then he will become a huge box office Super Bantamweight. I'm sure that Wayne will be more confident of his chances vs De Leon than any other champion.

The main event never lived up to the hype - but I was still pleased. Why? Cause I think that was Shane Mosley's best performance since the Forrest fights. He had flashes of his old self, for the first time in a long time his hand speed was looking close to what it was in his prime (he looked SLOW vs Wright and DLH 2). I think he should have gone back to his father sooner.

As for Vargas.... He does look finished, he is still a big name and might be able to attract the big Middleweights.... Maybe he can get Castilejo again. He looked shot though.

Mosley was good but Vargas must have been weight drained he was terrible. Peach of a left hook!

nickd wrote:Mosley was good but Vargas must have been weight drained he was terrible. Peach of a left hook!

Yes, he has claimed he is struggling for years and said that this was his last fight at the weight win, lose or draw.

KO punch of the year so far from Daniel Ponce De Leon, quite brutal.

Two KO's I fully expect to see in the KO's of 2006 package that I'm sure Sky will do.

Diaz looked pretty good, although smaller he'd be a decent opponent for Hatton and there has been talk of that happening. Would be a very tough nights work for Ricky.

don't think Diaz would be that tough i fight for Hatton to be honest, he'd stand right in front of him for a war, but as you say he's smaller and obviously not a huge puncher (he hit that guy with everything last night and didn't put a dent in him) and his great workrate would be more than matched by Ricky. I think Hatton's strength would tell and he'd break him up. Would be fun to watch though

Diaz is a lot faster than Hatton that could give him trouble.

Why the hell did Jay Nady continue the count in the Ponce De Leon fight that was attrocious. He was spark out!

Ponce de Leon is a cool cat, gotta love the one punch finishers, ice cold!!!
and yeah, LMAO at Nady counting the poor b*stard out when he was face first out clean ko'd!!

It was a disgrace, the guy could have been seriously hurt and those extra seconds could have been very costly. Nady should have his arse kicked for that.

assassin wrote:Ponce de Leon is a cool cat, gotta love the one punch finishers, ice cold!!!
and yeah, LMAO at Nady counting the poor b*stard out when he was face first out clean ko'd!!

Yes it was bad, thankfully he appears alright. It looked alarming at first and I'm not sure how clear would Nady's consciene have been had it been bad.

I don't think Vargas should have been allowed to continue. He was well out of it and basically turned his back on the fight when he continued.

Two bad refing judgments I thought

True Vargas should have been stopped he was never going to come back from that and was in bad shape.

true, Nady will cringe when he sees the replays of that.
Back to the main event; i was impressed with Mosely, did show flashes of his old speed and intensity. The left hook was a peach, scarily similar to the one Oscar dropped him with, he even fell the same way after he got hit!
Vargas didn't look good at all, never been the same since Trinidad gave him that beating. Think he'll probably retire, apparantly he's a smart businessman; clothing line, owns properties etc so it would be nice to see him retire still young without taking any more punishment. strange to say that given he's only 28 but he did have the look of a shot fighter last night

Vargas is a very old 28!

First time I'd seen Juan Diaz, great combinations but a real shame that his power is lacking, he'd be huge draw if he had a KO punch. Vargas looks completely finished, but hopefully a move up to MW will revitalise his career.

?MISSED DIS FITE I WAS WITH DE MISSUS HO WON

Errrm Mosley won by KO in 6th..

And the winner for most devastating KO of the year award goes to..........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBUUuRuVd5g

lvlarc_uk wrote:Errrm Mosley won by KO in 6th..

And the winner for most devastating KO of the year award goes to..........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBUUuRuVd5g

TOP DARG BUT DATS ROND1 NO ROND6 LOL IVE MEET MOSLEY SEVENREL TIMES .

Are you stoned? That was round 1 yes, not round 6. They were also both 30lbs lighter than Mosley/Vargas.

What was it like meeting Mosley? Without cheating, what skin colour does Mosley have, black or white? C'mon 2 options you got a 50% chance of being right here.

What was Nady thinking? The guy sprawled on his front! Who says southpaws make boring fights??