The Contender

[Glenn]

Judges scored it 120-109, 118-109, 120-107. Manfredo only has 10 KO's in 23 fights. Not impressive [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].

[skoal2k4]

manfredo is ranked #3 in the world... well, he was before his loss...

[Glenn]

That whole 3rd in the world thing was kind of BS. There are so many boxing ranking/title organizations that someone is bound to rank you highly. Manfredo never really fought anyone notable. His true "ranking" was in the 20's-30's before the competition started. Bernard Hopkins, Felix Trinidad, and Oscar DeLaHoya are all Middleweights. To rank Peter Manfredo in the top 3 in that division is offensive. Ishe Smith was probably the most highly regarded boxer going into the competition, but he really isn't a 160 lb fighter so he might have a tough time. Brinkley is decent and should do ok.

I really like the show, and I don't mean to say all of these guys are total bums. They are real, professional fighters, some of whom are fairly talented. At the same time, none of them is more than a B- fighter at this point, and the winner is still a long way from the top of the always competitive 154 and 160 lb weight classes.

[SuitedSixes]

Any idea when the fight is going to be in Las Vegas?

[Glenn]

Caesar's Palace in LV, May 24.

[tek]

He stated that he wants to control his destiny, win or lose. As far as deceiving his teammates, he had reasons. One was to get them to work hard during the medicine ball competition. The other was apparently +EV for pissing soon-to-be opponents off. Perhaps if an opponent takes a fight too personally it's -EV, similar to trying to get even with a player that took your rack. Instead of just going back to playing your A game and moving on you keep dwelling on THAT guy and you end up tilting...

[BellyBuster7]

That was a real ***** move by Anthony. You don't screw over your friends/teammates like that. I hope it catches up with him in the end.

Check out the extended scenes for some pretty funny footage of Jesse all s-faced.

[SuitedSixes]

He was WAAAASTED! If Stallone was pissed about the ice cream, what do you think he thought about that!?

[BWebb]

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Agreed he can't beat any of the others that are in the Final 8 so far.

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Just watched the eposide and this is totally wrong. I hope Ishe calls him out because he will get beat down! Anthony did the right thing. Everyone else got to pick their fight, there was no reason he had to choose a guy he didn't match up well against. Damn good eposide.

[AEKDBet]

I admired his move. It is a game of survival and so what if he makes some enemies trying to win.

If he values winning over dicking his team over, then he made a very crafty play.