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05-23-2005, 04:16 AM
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Re: The Contender
I'm really pulling for Sergio to win the championship fight, but I think that's pretty unlikely.
IMO Sergio is a very smart boxer whose greatest skill has been bout strategization. Ishe Smith was by far the strongest and hardest hitting boxer of the 16, yet Sergio knew exactly how to get him out of his game (keep dancing around and not allow him a steady target forcing him to use up his energy by missing punches.) Sergio also knew that in his fight with Jesse, he couldn't get into a punching war up close with Jesse and allow Jesse to get off any uppercuts or land a KO suckerpunch. He kept Jesse away from his body and used his straight-arm lefts to keep at Jesse's injured eye. Sergio was arguably the savviest competitor in this tourney (Joey Gilbert: close 2nd place.) However, Peter Manfredo has a hell of a lot of confidence after his past few victories and is a world-class fighter. If you've noticed at the end of all of his wins, Peter looks as if he had barely been scratched in the ring while his opponent's face looks as if Gary Sheffield had just went to town on it with a louisville slugger. He hits like a truck. I really hope Sergio wins, but I think that Peter will take the decision as he will prove to be too strong and too tough for Sergio to handle at Caeser's. 
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05-23-2005, 04:33 AM
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The Undercard
These can be seen live on Yahoo Tuesday starting at 10AM PT / 1PM ET
Jimmy Lange vs. Tarick Salmaci Anthony Bonsante vs. Jeff Fraza Brent Cooper vs. Ishe Smith
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05-23-2005, 04:36 AM
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Re: The Undercard
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These can be seen live on Yahoo Tuesday starting at 10AM PT / 1PM ET Jimmy Lange vs. Tarick Salmaci Anthony Bonsante vs. Jeff Fraza Brent Cooper vs. Ishe Smith [/ QUOTE ] jesus... Brent is gonna get the shi* kicked out of him again No Joey Gilbert? WTF! Very interested to see Jeff Fraza fight though
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#14
05-23-2005, 05:38 AM
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Re: The Contender
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Jesse +1000 [/ QUOTE ] This is not good value, folks [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img].
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#15
05-23-2005, 05:43 AM
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Re: The Contender
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I really hope they agreed to a chop when it got down to the Final Four. [/ QUOTE ] I assume 2nd place is pretty good prize money and that there wasn't a chop, after that comment about Sergio having a house.
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05-23-2005, 12:59 PM
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Re: The Undercard
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Brent is gonna get the shi* kicked out of him again [/ QUOTE ] Yes, yes he is. [ QUOTE ] No Joey Gilbert? WTF! Very interested to see Jeff Fraza fight though [/ QUOTE ] According to The Contender site, Joey has been medically suspended by the Nevada Boxing commission.
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#18
05-23-2005, 03:40 PM
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Re: The Contender
I love this show but missed the Gomez vs. Manfredo fight. A quick recap please. I really expected Gomez to win it all.
And how can people cheer for this Mora guy? So many likeable characters on this show and he just isn't one of them. My hope is we see some of these guys make it big or at least somewhat big.
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