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Canelo VS GGG Outcome A Disgrace

Posted: September 21, 2017 in Boxing Results, Personal Thoughts
Tags: #Boxeo, #boxing, #boxingblog, #BoxingNews, #canelo, #CaneloAlvarez, #CaneloGGG, #DavidJukic, #GennadyGolovkin, #GGG, #GGGcanelo, #insideringside, #Kazakstan, #SaulAlvarez, #TheRing, #Upset, #USA, #WBA, #WBAsuper, #WBAundisputed, #wbc, #WBO

What was supposed the be the marquee matchup of 2017, proved to be just that when Canelo Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KO’s) took on Gennady Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KO’s). Sadly the fight ended in a controversial draw. So who was at the heart of the controversy? Yes, you guessed it, none other then judge Adelaide Byrd, if she can even be called a judge at this point. GGG and Canelo fought all 12 rounds in what proved to be a magnificent fight, with everyone thinking that Golovkin had won at the end of 12 rounds. I scored the fight personally, and had GGG winning 116-112, same score as Harold Letterman, which means Golovkin won 8 of the 12 rounds. Judge Dave Morreti scored the fight 115-113 in favor of Golovkin which was a very fair score. Judge Don Trella scored the fight 114-114, which depending what you were looking for, is not terrible, even though I clearly thought Golovkin won. And then there was Judge Adelaide Byrd, who scored the fight 118-110 for Canelo Alvarez. That scorecard means that she only gave Golovkin 2 winning rounds out of 12, which is completely absurd given the fact that GGG dictated the whole fight, and landed way more punches then Canelo did. As a result for her atrocious scorecard, Byrd has been benched for the rest of 2017. In my opinion, she should definitely be suspended for a long time and heavily fined, if not thrown out of boxing all together. By the way, this is not her first highly questionable scorecard. There have been a few others, including a UFC fight, but we won’t get into that right now.

Golovkin came out strong with the jab in the first round, and as a result, outlander Canelo. In the second round, Canelo seemed to bounce back, and look a lot more comfortable, all the while countering effectively. In the 3rd round, GGG hit Canelo with a monster body shot, the first one he threw, and for a split second, it looked like Canelo was a goner. Since the third round, Canelo was on his horse, backing up pretty much the rest of the fight, and fighting off the ropes. GGG also took the 4th round, in which Canelo seemed to still be feeling that body shot. The 4th was one round that Adelaide Byrd gave to GGG.

According to Byrd, GGG would not win another round until the 7th, when he hit Canelo with a hellacious overhand right. Thinking he had the fight won, GGG slowed down in the 11th and 12th, and pretty much gave away the rounds. On the flip side, it really looked like Canelo got the “you have to KO him to win” speech, because he came out guns blazing in the 11th, after no doing much the previous 2 rounds, and continually being trapped against the ropes.

These are the final punch stats for the fight. Lets take round 9 for example. GGG landed 24/58 (41%) punches, while Canelo landed 13/42 (31%) punches. That’s an 11 pinch difference. So how could Byrd have given Canelo that round? The fight of the year was turned into a disgrace by a corrupt judge. If she isn’t corrupt, she is totally incompetent. Either way, she should not be a judge any longer. By the way, what was in that envelope that Oscar De La Hoya was spotted handing to her? This fight should be reviewed by 3 other judges that had nothing to do with it, and this decision should be overturned. Golovkin should be the Unanimous Decision winner!

-David Jukic, INSIDE RINGSIDE

CANELO VS GGG: Weigh In

Posted: September 16, 2017 in Breaking News
Tags: #Boxeo, #boxing, #boxingblog, #BoxingNews, #canelo, #CaneloAlvarez, #CaneloGGG, #DavidJukic, #GennadyGolovkin, #GGG, #GGGcanelo, #IBF, #IBO, #insideringside, #MegaFight, #MexicanStyle, #Mexico, #Middleweight, #SaulAlvarez, #TheRing, #WBA, #wbc, #WBO

-David Jukic, INSIDE RINGSIDE

CANELO VS GGG: Breakdown & Prediction

Posted: September 14, 2017 in Predictions
Tags: #Boxeo, #boxing, #boxingblog, #BoxingNews, #BoxingPredictions, #canelo, #CaneloAlvarez, #CaneloGGG, #DavidJukic, #DiegoDeLaHoya, #GennadyGolovkin, #GGG, #GGGcanelo, #HBO, #HBOBoxing, #HBOPPV, #IBF, #IBO, #insideringside, #KO, #Middleweight, #OscarDeLaHoya, #SaulAlvarez, #TheRing, #TKO, #USA, #WBA, #WBAsuper, #WBAundisputed, #wbc

This Saturday night September 16th 2017, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (49-1-1, 34 KO’s) will take on Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (37-0, 33 KO’s) for the Unified Middleweight title. Golovkin will defend his WBA & IBF Middleweight titles, while Alvarez will defend his TheRing Middleweight title. The fight will take place at the T-Mobil Arena in Las Vegas Nevada, and will be live on HBO PPV at 8pm ET. In the co-feature, Diego De La Hoya (19-0, 9 KO’s) will take on Randy Caballero (24-0, 14 KO’s) in a 12 round Super Bantamweight bout. Also on the card, Jesus Rojas (25-1-1, 17 KO’s) will go at it with Claudio Marrero (22-1, 16 KO’s) in a 12 round Featherweight bout, and Roberto Ortiz (31-1-2, 26 KO’s) will take on Antonio Orozco (26-0, 17 KO’s) in a 10 round Junior Welterweight bout. Here is the breakdown and predictions:

SAUL “CANELO” ALVAREZ

-Record: 49 – 1 – 1, 34 KO’s

-Weight Class: Middleweight

-Height: 5′ 9″

-Reach: 71

-Notable Fights

Floyd Mayweather — Loss, Majority Decision (12), 9/14/13.
Miguel Cotto — Win, Unanimous Decision (12), 11/21/15. (Won lineal/TheRing/WBC Middleweight titles)
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr — Win, Unanimous Decision (12), 5/6/17.

GENNADY GOLOVKIN

-Record: 37 – 0 – 0, 33 KO’s

-Weight Class: Middleweight

-Height: 5′ 10″

-Reach: 70

-Notable Fights

Martin Murray — Win, TKO 11th round (12), 2/21/15.
David Lemieux — Win, TKO 8th round (12), 10/17/15. (Won IBF Middleweight title)
Daniel Jacobs — Win, Unanimous Decision (12), 3/18/17.

Predictions:

Antonio Orozco — def — Roberto Ortiz — via — TKO 9th round

Claudio Marrero — def — Jesus Rojas — via — Unanimous Decision

Diego De La Hoya — def — Randy Caballero — via — Unanimous Decision

Gennady Golovkin — def — Canelo Alvarez — via — Unanimous Decision

-David Jukic, INSIDE RINGSIDE

Chocolatito Flattened

Posted: September 12, 2017 in Boxing Results
Tags: #Boxeo, #boxing, #boxingblog, #BoxingNews, #BoxingResults, #CarlosCuadras, #Chocolatito, #DavidJukic, #insideringside, #JuanFranciscoEstrada, #KO, #NaoyaInoue, #RomanGonzalez, #SorRungvisaiChocolatito, #SrisaketSorRungvisai, #SuperFly, #TKO, #USA, #wbc

This past Saturday night September 9th 2017, Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (46-2, 38 KO’s) looked to get revenge against Srisaket Sor Rungivsai (44-4-1, 40 KO’s) to avenge his highly questionable loss in their first meeting. It was a sad night for Chocolatito, as he would come up short yet again against the fighter that handed him his first loss, but this time it was a whole lot worst. In their first meeting, Gonzalez was completely robbed in the 12 round decision. He outlander Sor Rungvisai by about 150 punches, and somehow was handed the loss in a majority decision. I’m not exactly sure how its even possible to lose a fight when you out land your opponent by that much, but lets just say that the judges got it wrong. Could it have been because the head butts bloodied Gonzalez so much that he looked completely beat up? Or was it more of a question of foul play on the judges part? Chalk it up to whatever you want, this second fight should have never taken place, simply because Gonzalez should have won the first one.

Chocolatito looked defeated even before the opening bell in the rematch. This was a classic case of an undefeated fighter completely losing his confidence after being handed his first loss. The fireworks began in the first round, as the ultra confident Sor Rungvisai came out throwing that deadly left hook of his. Gonzalez was completely gun shy as a head butt occurred almost immedialty. Gonzalez looked done in the corner after the first round, looking like he just didn’t want to be there. Choclatito started throwing more in the second round and looked like he was getting into a rhythm, but Sor Rungvisai’s continual onslaught put Gonzalez back into his shell. In the 4th round, Sor Rungvisai landed a monster right hook that put Gonzalez down with still over 2 minutes left in the round. Gonzalez would get up, but not for long. Another monster right hook later in the round would put Chocolatito down for good.

Juan Francisco Estrada (36-2, 25 KO’s) also defeated Carlos Cuadras (36-2-1, 27 KO’s) in an awesome back and forth fight that should be considered a fight of the year candidate. Estrada is now the mandatory contender for Srisaket Sor Rungvisai. Estrada lost the first 5 round of the fight, but settled in and took the second half. He even knocked Cuadras down in the 10th, and got the narrow decision. Naoya Inoue (14-0, 12 KO’s) also made his American debut as he easily defeated Antonio Nieves (17-2, 9 KO’s). Inoue won every second of this fight with his piston like jab and hellacious body shots. After the 6th there was no reason for Nieves to continue getting beat down, so his corner stopped the fight.

-David Jukic, INSIDE RINGSIDE

Mayweather VS McGregor, Embarrassment To The Sport

Posted: August 27, 2017 in Boxing Results, Personal Thoughts
Tags: #AndrewTabiti, #badoujack, #Boxeo, #boxing, #boxingblog, #BoxingNews, #BoxingResults, #CleverlyJack, #ConorMcGregor, #DavidJukic, #FloydMayweather, #GervontaDavis, #IBF, #insideringside, #Ireland, #KO, #mayweather, #MayweatherMcGregor, #NathanCleverly, #TBE, #TheRing, #TKO, #TMT, #USA, #WBA, #wbc, #WBO

Last night on Showtime Boxing, Floyd Mayweather (50-0, 27 KO’s) picked up his 50th victory, surpassing Rocky Marciano (49-0) and rhode off into the sunset for the last time. Mayweather knocked out Conor McGregor (0-1, 0 KO’s) in the 10th round. McGregor looked foolish in the ring from the very beginning, but managed to win the first 3 rounds simply because Mayweather was not throwing any punches. In the 4th round, Mayweather finally let his hands go, and it was demolition of the MMA superstar. Floyd was picking McGregor off with timely counters over and over again.

By the 7th round, McGregor looked totally gassed like he was going to collapse at any moment. The 10th round would mark the end for Conor McGregor, who could barley stand on his feet at that point, as Floyd pinned him into the corner and started throwing combinations. Mayweather landed a huge right hand followed by a left hook and a series of jabs. At that point, McGregor really had nothing left in the tank. He dropped his hands and took the shots. Without throwing any punches back, and absorbing too much punishment, the referee stopped the fight, and Mayweather cruised to victory.

On the under card, Andrew Tabiti (15-0, 12 KO’s) defeated Steve Cunningham (29-9-1, 13 KO’s) in their Cruiserweight bout by a 10 round unanimous decision. Gervonta Davis (19-0, 18 KO’s) went at it with Fransisco Fonseca (19-1-1, 13 KO’s) and disposed of him with a very questionable TKO victory in the 8th round. Davis hit Fonseca in the back of the head, and the referee deemed it a clean hit and a TKO for Davis. Badou Jack (22-1-2, 13 KO’s) was spectacular in his 5th round TKO victory against Nathan Cleverly (30-4, 16 KO’s). In his first bout at Light Heavyweight, he bloodied the naturally bigger Cleverly, and took the WBA Light Heavyweight title home in a very impressive victory.

Back to the topic of Mayweather VS McGregor, this analysis will be very opinionated. The fight was a joke, plane and simple. I have never seen Floyd not punch at all, even though he usually tends to be a slow starter. The whole thing just seemed scripted on Floyd’s part, even thought Conor McGregor was most likely not aware of it. It pains me to say this, being a huge TMT and Mayweather fan, but I almost wish this fight didn’t happen. Was telling my friends form the beginning, even before fight night, Floyd is going to try to make this a show and let McGregor fight, and then when he decided it was necessary, he would take him out. People were praising McGregor for fighting a brilliant start to the fight. He actually did not. He looked awkward and unsure of himself. The reason he “looked great” in the first 3 rounds is because Floyd wasn’t fighting. McGregor is not an experienced boxer, and if Floyd fought rounds 1-3 the way he fought 8-10, he would have taken McGregor out in the first round or two. But then that wouldn’t have been a show! Once Mayweather decided that it was time to fight, he was landing at will. If he decided to not let Conor have a chance at all, and fought the first half of the fight, the show would have been over early, but at least it would have been real!!!

-David Jukic, INSIDE RINGSIDE

Mayweather Highlights

Posted: August 26, 2017 in Profile Cabinet
Tags: #Boxeo, #boxing, #boxingblog, #BoxingNews, #ConorMcGregor, #DavidJukic, #FloydMayweather, #insideringside, #KO, #mayweather, #MayweatherMcGregor, #showtime, #showtimechampionshipboxing, #ShowTimePayPerView, #ShowtimePPV, #TBE, #TKO, #TMT, #USA

-David Jukic, INSIDE RINGSIDE

MAYWEATHER VS MCGREGOR: Tale Of The Tape & Prediction

Posted: August 26, 2017 in Predictions
Tags: #badoujack, #Boxeo, #boxing, #boxingblog, #BoxingNews, #BoxingPredictions, #CleverlyJack, #ConnorMcGregor, #ConorMcGregor, #DavidJukic, #England, #Fight, #FloydMayweather, #Fox, #GervontaDavis, #insideringside, #Ireland, #K2, #MayweatherMcGregor, #MegaFight, #MikeStafford, #Money, #NathanCleverly, #shobox, #showtime, #ShowtimeBoxingInternational, #showtimechampionshipboxing, #ShowTimePayPerView, #ShowtimePPV, #UFC, #USA

Tonight August 26th 2017, the mega fight between Floyd “Money” Mayweather and Conor McGregor will finally take place. The fight will be at the T-Mobil Arena in Paradise Nevada and will be live on Showtime Pay Per View at 9pm ET. In the co-feature, Nathan Cleverly will defend his WBA Light Heavyweight title against Badou Jack. Also on the card, Gervonta Davis will take on Fransisco Fonseca in a 12 round Super Featherweight bout. Here is the tale of the tape and predictions:

Floyd Mayweather Jr	Tale of The Tape	Conor McGregor
149.5	Official Weight	153
49	Wins	0
0	Lost	0
26	KOs	0
0	Draws	0
49	Total Fights	0
53%	KO%	%
5’8″	Height	5’9″
72″	Reach	74″
Orthodox	Stance	Southpaw
Grand Rapids, MI, USA	Nationality	Dublin, Ireland
February 24th, 1977	Date of Birth	July 14th, 1988

Predictions:

Gervonta Davis — def — Fransisco Fonseca — via — KO 3rd round

Badou Jack — def — Nathan Cleverly — via — Unanimous Decision

Floyd Mayweather — def — Connor McGregor — via — Unanimous Decision

-David Jukic, INSIDE RINGSIDE

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