: Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:36 pm
Not posted on here for a while so apologies for bringing up old fights.
Khan v Barrera:
How did this fight get to round 5, yes Khan was beating him on points. Mainly due to the fact he fought how he always does and throws 400 punches a second landing less than half of them, none of them hurting Barrera. Big clash of heads, big cut, should have been stopped a lot earlier IMO.
Diaz v Marquez:
What a fight, Marquez hurt early on but shows the true warrior in him carrying on to force a 9th round stoppage, and what a stoppage it was.
If Khan goes into the ring with any of David Diaz, Juan Diaz, Marquez, Casamayor, Katsidis or Romanov he will get his ass well and truly beat, he is just not powerful enough to trouble any of these boxers.
Just watched Burns v Gomez, Gomez tried to be his old self and tried to walk through everything that Burns thrown at him which unfortunately doesn't work for Gomez anymore. Burns looked good but don't think he is ready to challenge for a world title yet as he said he wanted to after the fight. I think that will be the last time we see Gomez in the ring, "unless he can get a couple of easy 4/6 rounders to take him to 50 fights with a couple of easy wins" in his words. He has been a good fighter over the years but has lived on the back of the Alex Arthur win for the last few years when he isn't the same boxer anymore, although sometimes the build up to his fights was actually better than the fight itself
Will be hoping for a Gary Davies win next week on friday fight night as he is a friend of mine.