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abuC

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Peterson could have won this if he started sooner, he's been beating the shit out of Garcia for the last 4 rounds or so.
 
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NervousXtian

Thought Emoji Movie was good. Take that as you will.
Garcia got owned the whole fight.

You can't score rounds early when Garcia DIDN'T land.. Peterson controlled with the jab. If you scored against him due to running you scored wrong.

Garcia KNOWS he lost that fight... he KNOWS it.
 
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TJ Verboten

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Close fight, I had it 114-14, but if I had to pick a winner I think Peterson should've gotten the nod, he was walking him down the 2nd half of the fight, I also thought Peterson won the first two rounds with effective defensive movement and punching with Garcia not landing much of anything.
Garcia has impressed me the past couple years but tonight he looked middling.
I used to be curious what Floyd/Garcia would look like but if Peterson could avoid Garcia as easily as he did early in the fight, Floyd would Gatti Garcia, though Garcia's tough enough to go the distance since Floyd doesn't punch big.
First fight was better.
 
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Syphon Filter

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NervousXtian said:
Garcia got owned the whole fight.

You can't score rounds early when Garcia DIDN'T land.. Peterson controlled with the jab. If you scored against him due to running you scored wrong.

Garcia KNOWS he lost that fight... he KNOWS it.
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Garcia did land with jabs and hooks. Peterson started landing with both later but it was too late. He thought he was winning and waited late to be more aggressive.
 
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Peterson should have won. Garcia is has really struggled the last two fights. Will probably get May after he finishes with Pac.
 
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The Wraith

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NervousXtian said:
Garcia got owned the whole fight.

You can't score rounds early when Garcia DIDN'T land.. Peterson controlled with the jab. If you scored against him due to running you scored wrong.

Garcia KNOWS he lost that fight... he KNOWS it.
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Garcia threw and landed more punches the first 6-7 rounds. They may not have been power shots but he won based on activity.
 
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Future PhaZe

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Defensive boxing is fine if you land shots. I don't mind giving Garcia some of the earlier rounds but to act like he won them all is bullshit. Peterson showed great use of the jab and Garcia wasn't landing.
 
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The Wraith

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Future PhaZe said:
Defensive boxing is fine if you land shots. I don't mind giving Garcia some of the earlier rounds but to act like he won them all is bullshit. Peterson showed great use of the jab and Garcia wasn't landing.
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Again Garcia threw and landed more punches in the first 6-7 rounds. Peterson didn't do much of anything those rounds but sprint around the ring.
 
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abuC

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The Wraith said:
Absolutely. Stupid move if he goes up that high.
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He wants some of that Money May stimulus package, I actually think Floyd would love to fight him after this showing, he's looked pretty poor in his last 3. I think Lucas may have ruined him, even though he won that fight he hasn't really looked the same since and he ate some huge shots that have knocked other people out.
 
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TuXx

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Kinda disagree with everyone saying that Lamont didn't do anything the first 6 rounds. Danny's face didn't get fucked up by Lamont just moving around.
 
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illmatic22

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It is a twelve round fight. Peterson won the last three rounds in a row, and they were the best rounds of the fight, but to get there, to tire Garcia out like that, he gave away the first half as he rode his bike. It was a good plan, but he started out too late, until Garcia was slowing down and his punches weren't packing the power he's shown to possess.


It was close but it was not a robbery, Garcia won more rounds, Peterson had a couple of them that were impressive, but they were late, and negated by the 7 he had already lost.
 
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illmatic22 said:
It is a twelve round fight. Peterson won the last three rounds in a row, and they were the best rounds of the fight, but to get there, to tire Garcia out like that, he gave away the first half as he rode his bike. It was a good plan, but he started out too late, until Garcia was slowing down and his punches weren't packing the power he's shown to possess.


It was close but it was not a robbery, Garcia won more rounds, Peterson had a couple of them that were impressive, but they were late, and negated by the 7 he had already lost.
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Perfectly said. I thought it was clear Danny won, due to the beginning rounds.
 
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abuC

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Herrera was absolutely robbed vs Garcia, but this just a close fight that would have been different had Peterson started 1 round sooner.
 
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NervousXtian

Thought Emoji Movie was good. Take that as you will.
The Wraith said:
Garcia threw and landed more punches the first 6-7 rounds. They may not have been power shots but he won based on activity.
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It's okay to be wrong, because you're wrong.

Early on Garcia was outboxed and didn't land.. down the stretch Peterson just beat him down repeatedly.

Clear Peterson win.. scoring a round to a guy who didn't land because you don't like the other guy moving isn't how boxing is scored. Or at least shouldn't be.

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Kinda disagree with everyone saying that Lamont didn't do anything the first 6 rounds. Danny's face didn't get fucked up by Lamont just moving around.
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This too, because Danny was marked up WELL before the 6th or 7th round.
 
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abuC

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What does everyone think of PBC so far? I've watched boxing on Telemundo and Friday Night Fights so I'm not the average fan, I'll follow the sport wherever it is. So I'm a bit biased, I like it so far, not a fan of Sugar Ray on commentary though.
 
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illmatic22

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The Matchchups have been good, nobody facing cans thus far. And the fights themselves have been watchable, some more than others, but I haven't been bored by any of the PBC fights at all. So it's been working well, I feel like. A lot of these fights could have easily been on Showtime, glad they are free for everyone to see.

And yes, Sugar Ray, is horrible.
 
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The Wraith

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NervousXtian said:
It's okay to be wrong, because you're wrong.

Early on Garcia was outboxed and didn't land.. down the stretch Peterson just beat him down repeatedly.

Clear Peterson win.. scoring a round to a guy who didn't land because you don't like the other guy moving isn't how boxing is scored. Or at least shouldn't be.




This too, because Danny was marked up WELL before the 6th or 7th round.
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LOL he had a small mouse under his eye until later on in the fight... AGAIN GARCIA LANDED MORE PUNCHES UP UNTIL ROUND 7. Apparently 2 judges and the guy keeping the score on the broadcast all thought the same thing. So I'm ok with being wrong. he was inactive in the beginning of the fight, it cost him. Just the facts my man. Agree to disagree.
 
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NervousXtian said:
This too, because Danny was marked up WELL before the 6th or 7th round.
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Nah. Garcia doesn't start showing damage on his face until the 7th and that was the small bruise/swelling on his right cheek bone area.

Petersons movement and jabs early on were nice but Garcia was the aggressor and landed the more meaningful punches, even if they weren't many. At about 4 minutes into Rnd3 Peterson had out jabbed Garcia 13 to 7 (landed) but almost if not zero power shots. Garcia continued to out land in power shots in rounds 4, 5, 6, and 7. At roughly 1:00 left in rnd6 Garcia had landed 51 power shots to Petersons 16. In rnd7 power shots landed were 13 to 6 in favor of Garcia.

If you're going to try to out point with jabs, you can't allow your opponent to land a meaningful amount of power shots. Peterson allowed that to happen and put himself behind on the cards because of it.
 
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The Wraith

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Jest Chillin said:
Nah. Garcia doesn't start showing damage on his face until the 7th and that was the small bruise/swelling on his right cheek bone area.

Petersons movement and jabs early on were nice but Garcia was the aggressor and landed the more meaningful punches, even if they weren't many. At about 4 minutes into Rnd3 Peterson had out jabbed Garcia 13 to 7 (landed) but almost if not zero power shots. Garcia continued to out land in power shots in rounds 4, 5, 6, and 7. At roughly 1:00 left in rnd6 Garcia had landed 51 power shots to Petersons 16. In rnd7 power shots landed were 13 to 6 in favor of Garcia.

If you're going to try to out point with jabs, you can't allow your opponent to land a meaningful amount of power shots. Peterson allowed that to happen and put himself behind on the cards because of it.
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And those are cold hard numbers. It's just facts that Peterson was too inactive early on to win any of those rounds. He needed to come out earlier but he didnt and it cost him dearly.
 
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Featherweights Leo Santa Cruz and Abner Mares have both been in exciting fights and won world titles in multiple divisions -- two for Santa Cruz, three for Mares -- but lately they have taken an onslaught of criticism from fight fans for their very soft recent opposition.

That figures to change dramatically because, after much fan demand, the two Mexico-born, Southern California-based fighters will square off in a much-anticipated fight that will headline a Premier Boxing Champions on ESPN card on Aug. 29 (10 p.m. ET) at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

A free fan rally and news conference to hype the scheduled 12-round bout will be held Tuesday at Plaza Mexico in Los Angeles beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET.

"I'm really excited for this fight," said Mares, who has won world titles at bantamweight, junior featherweight and featherweight. "It's a fight the fans have been asking for, and I'm ready to give them what they want: a great show and a great victory."

Santa Cruz, a former bantamweight titleholder and a reigning junior featherweight titlist, fought his last bout at featherweight to get his feet wet in the division in anticipation of the showdown with Mares.

He easily defeated Jose Cayetano, a last-minute journeyman opponent, via 10-round unanimous decision on May 2 on the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao undercard. It was yet another soft-touch opponent for Santa Cruz, who was criticized by fans for the match -- even though it is manager Al Haymon who is responsible for picking the opponents.

"This fight means so much to me because I know it is what the fans have been waiting for," Santa Cruz said. "The opportunity to fight at Staples Center against a Mexican warrior and great fighter in Abner Mares is one that I plan on taking very seriously."

Santa Cruz (30-0-1, 17 KOs), 26, who has conceded to being stung by the fierce fan criticism, likely will vacate his junior featherweight title soon. He will leave behind the junior featherweight division without ever facing champion Guillermo Rigondeaux or titleholders Carl Frampton and Scott Quigg in unification matches. But he said Mares was the opponent he has been hoping to face for quite some time.

"We have been preparing for this moment for a very long time, and I'm so glad it's finally here," Santa Cruz said. "A win is going to take one of us to the next level."

Mares (29-1-1, 15 KOs), 29, has faced similar criticism about the caliber of his recent opponents -- three walkovers -- since he was starched in the first round and lost his featherweight world title to Jhonny Gonzalez in a major upset in August 2013.

But Mares has faced overall excellent opposition, having won titles in three weight classes during a tremendous 21-month stretch between 2011 and 2013 in which he defeated top fighters such as Joseph Agbeko to win a bantamweight title (and again in a rematch), Eric Morel to win a junior featherweight title, long-reigning bantamweight titlist Anselmo Moreno and Daniel Ponce De Leon to win a featherweight belt.

The big wins against Moreno and Ponce De Leon both came in Southern California, with the one against Moreno coming at Staples Center on the same card on which Santa Cruz defended his bantamweight title.

Now Santa Cruz and Mares will once again be on the same card in the same arena but finally fighting each other.

"We're honored to bring this highly anticipated showdown between Leo Santa Cruz and Abner Mares to the great Southern California boxing fans," said Tom Brown of TGB Promotions. "Leo and Abner have risen to the top of the sport and this much talked about battle at the Staples Center is a fight not to be missed."

Said Mares: "L.A. is my home. I train here, grew up here and I'm ready to show this city and the world that I am the champ," Mares said. "I'm proud to be part of this great event on ESPN at Staples Centers. Boxing is bigger than ever. Whatever you do, don't miss this fight."
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The inaugural Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on ESPN card Saturday drew an overall average of 800,000 viewers. That’s a 110 per cent boost over the average of 381,000 pulled in by ESPN’s previous boxing series, Friday Night Fights, in 2015. Those numbers (and the peak of one million viewers for the main welterweight championship bout between Keith Thurman and Luis Collazo ) suggest ESPN’s multi-year deal with PBC (just one of the multiple TV deals PBC has; they also have deals with NBC, CBS and Spike) may work well for both parties, and that boxing still has a significant audience. However, there are some ongoing questions about the PBC setup, and if it can survive for the long term.

It’s worth noting that these ratings, while good by ESPN boxing standards, are far from dominant by PBC standards. March’s PBC debut on NBC averaged 3.4 million viewers, and the April 11 NBC broadcast pulled in 2.88, very comparable to UFC on Fox broadcasts. The PBC on CBS ratings haven’t been as strong, with the April debut landing a 1.1 (about 1.6 million, higher than NBC’s competing NHL broadcast), and May and June events landing 1.3 million and 868,000 respectively. Network broadcasts obviously have an edge over cable, and 800,000’s quite decent for boxing on ESPN (as the contrast to the Friday Night Fights numbers shows), but it’s not a dominant cable sports event. Consider the ratings edge the NASCAR and Gold Cup broadcasts on NBCSN and Fox Sports 1 Friday had, drawing over a million viewers each, and those events weren’t even big on the scale of other ones we’ve seen. Still, these ESPN numbers are part of a great year for boxing in the ratings, even if it hasn’t been as good of a year for memorable fights.
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Two of Brooklyn's own will look to defend their turf in the feature bouts for the next episode of Premier Boxing Champions at the Barclays Center in New York on Saturday, August 1. PBC and Showtime analyst and former two-time champion Paulie "The Magic Man" Malignaggi (33-6, 7 KO) will challenge undefeated pound-for-pound contender Danny "Swift" Garcia (30-0, 17 KO).

In the co-feature, WBA regular middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs (29-1, 26 KO) will defend his secondary championship against former titleholder Sergio Mora (28-3-2, 9 KO).



When: Saturday, August 1, at 9 p.m. ET

Where: Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York

TV: ESPN
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The march of Al Haymon's Premier Boxing Champions series across the television landscape continued Tuesday with the expected announcement that he has finalized a deal with yet another network.

Fox Sports 1 announced that PBC will be its exclusive boxing provider and that the cable sports network will televise 21 cards through June 2016. They will take place on Tuesday nights, hence the FS1 marketing slogan of "Toe-To-Toe Tuesdays." The fights will be simulcast on Spanish-language network Fox Deportes.

Since its debut on NBC in prime time on March 7, PBC, which purchases the time for its cards using the some of the roughly $450 million Haymon raised from investors, has rolled out one network deal after another. It now has deals to be the exclusive boxing programming provider with NBC, NBC Sports Net, CBS, ESPN/ESPN Deportes, Spike TV, Bounce TV and now FS1/Fox Deportes.

The PBC deal with FS1 replaces the network's deal with Golden Boy Promotions. FS1 had been paying rights fees to Golden Boy for its cards over the past few years but that deal recently expired.

"We've been invested in boxing as a cornerstone property since launching Fox Sports 1," said David Nathanson, head of business operations for Fox Sports. "Premier Boxing Champions delivers high-profile, high-quality programming that is breaking viewership records in the boxing space. There is no question that this deal makes Fox Sports 1 and Fox Deportes true destinations for boxing fans."

In making the series announcement, the first four fight cards were also unveiled, beginning with the debut on Sept. 8 (9 p.m. ET), although none of the sites have been locked in.

Here are the fights that were announced:

• September 8th: Former junior middleweight titlist Austin Trout (29-2, 16 KOs) against Joey Hernandez (24-3-1, 14 KOs) in the main event with junior featherweights Jorge Lara (27-0-1, 19 KOs) and Jesus Rojas (21-1-1, 15 KOs) squaring off in the co-feature.

• September 15th: Rising welterweight contender Sammy Vasquez (19-0, 13 KOs) against Jose Lopez (25-3-1, 15 KOs). Light heavyweights Thomas Williams Jr. (18-1, 12 KOs) and Umberto Savigne (12-2, 9 KOs) will meet in the co-feature.

• September 22nd: Junior middleweight contender Julian Williams (20-0-1, 12 KOs) takes on Luciano Cuello (35-3, 17 KOs). Junior featherweight Moises Flores (23-0, 16 KOs) will defend his interim title against Luis Emmanuel Cusolito (21-1, 19 KOs) in the co-feature.

• September 29th: Junior lightweight titlist Javier Fortuna (28-0-1, 20 KOs) will make his first defense when he faces Carlos Velazquez (19-1, 12 KOs). In the co-feature, junior middleweight Domonique Dolton (17-0, 9 KOs) will face 2012 Mexican Olympian Oscar Molina (13-0, 10 KOs).


Brian Kenny, the former longtime host of ESPN2's Friday Night Fights and, more recently, Showtime's "Showtime Championship Boxing," will serve as host of the series.

"I'm so excited to be working on Fox Sports 1 on this new PBC series," Kenny said. "We're looking forward to making boxing even more accessible to the fans, providing world class matchups and putting the spotlight on fighters, who deserve to be seen by both hardcore and mainstream fans. We will be real with the audience, show them respect and give them the landscape of the boxing world."

It has not been made official, but Gus Johnson, who has called various sports, including boxing on Showtime, is slated to be the blow-by-blow announcer. The analyst position has not been filled yet.
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Tuesday Night Fights back in spirit? I'll take it. No thanks to Gus Johnson though. Can't we reunite Sean O'Grady and Al Albert instead?
 
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