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I caught some of the telecast again and Vitali-Adamek was mentioned in a graphic on the bottom of the screen. I assume Vitali-Adamek will be on tape delay and the Gamboa fight will be shown afterwards.

Didn't they mention Vitali-Adamek on the telecast? It seems vaguely familiar, but I wasn't really paying attention.

Haye was all hype, as we all knew. His heavyweight career has been mediocre, at best. Typically, the more someone talks trash, the more boring their performance. They have to sell the fight with their mouth because they can't sell it with their fists.

That's ironic considering that their physiques are actually quite similar. Obviously Wlad is much bigger, and therefore has bigger muscles, but looking at the weigh-in pics, I noticed that their proportions are very similar.

Haye weighed in at 212 lbs. He's still a Cruiserweight! I love when these guys claim they can't make the weight anymore and have to move up. Yeah right.

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Speaking of robberies, I just saw Macklin-Sturm. Macklin won that fight clearly and decisively. But even the British commentator had the fight even. WTF! What fight was he watching? Macklin beat his ass. This is right up there with Kotelnik-Alexander, Bell-Brown, and Shumenov-Campillo in...

His mom is black and his dad is white. It was mentioned on one of the Countdown shows.

The guy from the commission said it was something that they (and Marquardt) knew about for six weeks, and that he had six weeks to correct the issue. ???

His eyes are very light, maybe gray?

160 isn't a great division anyway. Although Sturm isn't a big guy either, so that could be a possibility for him at 160. (Sturm's career has been stuck in the mud for so long. I wouldn't mind a hungry, ambitious white fighter taking his place in the middleweight division.) Otherwise, fights...

Overall it was a good performance. He showed power, resolve, and great stamina. I'm not sure why he camped out on the inside, where Oumma did his best work. It reminded me of Zbik against Chavez. Why not move your feet and clinch on the inside? Golovkin is under-sized. His trainer says...

Dirk scored 62 points in the 4th quarter throughout the series, Wade and Lebron combined for 62! And most of that was Wade. Lebron disappeared down the stretch, time and time again. Dirk and the Mavericks were finishers, that was the difference in the series. Congratulations, Dirk!

Bute will be busy with Mendy, maybe Kessler or Pavlik, Super Six winner. He's got plenty of options at 168, so Hopkins shouldn't really be on his radar at this point.

Abraham doesn't seem to have the stamina for a 12 round fight. He used to take the first three or four rounds off, knowing he could turn up the heat in the last two thirds of the fight. That's just not going to work against top tier talent. Compubox credited Abraham with landing significantly...

Right on! I don't want a great fight, I want a great performance. No "fight of the year," just total domination. Haye thinks Wlad is boring? I want him to see just how painful "boring" can be.

Silva's dancing, taunting, and showboating in his fight against Maia was far worse, in my book, than Sonnen's trash talking. It's one thing to try to create some interest in a fight with some silly trash talk, which Sonnen was clearly trying to do. It's another thing to make a mockery of the...

Rory MacDonald was superb. Totally controlled the fight, barely got hit with anything significant (Goldberg bent over backwards to give Diaz credit for shots that didn't land, or didn't land that well,) and stuffed every single take down attempt. He dominated both the striking and the...

Thanks for the gifs, guys. Definitive proof that the punch landed. His right leg looked perfectly normal before the punch. After the punch, his left leg gave out, his upper body swayed, his body language and movement completely changed. It's really beyond dispute at this point.

I just watched it again, and it is indeed closer the second time around! I think we all suffer from pessimism every now and then. lol. Solis landed one nice right hand, and one nice left hook, and that was about it. Vitali didn't do a whole lot either, some jabs and a few body shots...

If there were a division between 185 and 205, I imagine a lot of these 205ers would be there. Guys like Shogun, Machida, and Evans aren't that big. They're definitely not that lean. They could cut more weight if they had to. Whereas guys like Jones and Griffin are very big guys. A 20...

That left uppercut to the body is one of the best weapons in all of boxing.

Vitali landed a right hand on the temple, Solis's *left* leg became wobbly, and then he falls and injures his *right* knee. That's what I saw. The temple shot made him do a chicken dance, and he was injured while falling down. That's a legitimate TKO victory, IMO. If a fighter doesn't want to...

Belfort, another product of media hype. Franklin is his only significant win since 1998! Yeah, he has talent, but he's also the biggest underachiever in the history of the sport. He only ever had a puncher's chance against Silva.

Abraham was clearly trying to box more. He was more active than usual, throwing more jabs, going to the body. It's too bad we couldn't have seen more rounds to see if he had the discipline to stick to that.