7/19 ESPN+: Teofimo Lopez vs Masayoshi Nakatani

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I understand he didn’t look good tonight but at the same time, y’all ain’t tired of watching Loma smash bums like Crolla?

Y’all ain’t giving the Jap homey no credit

Thing is, Lopez is on that Crolla level right now, which is why he should keep his mouth shut before it gets shut for him.

 

[R=G]

Interesting fight..just watched it..got hit with rights alot by the tall kid. Better get his mind right for Commey....dont worry about marriages..start getting the job done.

 

[patscorpio]

messed up...boxing is a brutal sport...everything that man worked for..all gone in roughly 33 mins

What Maxim Dadashev was fighting for
By Mark Kriegel



OXON HILL, MD. -- At the end of the 11th round, Buddy McGirt told his fighter, "I'm going to stop it, Max."

Maxim Dadashev, 28, is from St. Petersburg, Russia. He was 281-20 as an amateur, undefeated in 13 professional fights, and the IBF's third-ranked junior welterweight. He aspired to be both an American and a champion, and often spoke of the day, in the not too distant future, when he would take his wife and son to Miami, or maybe Hawaii, a place where they could lie in the sun.


"Max, you're getting hit too much."

Dadashev shook his head no.

"Please, Max, please," said McGirt, a former welterweight champion recently inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. "Let me do this. OK?"

The fighter blinked. His chest heaved. But he said nothing.

"OK? Look at me. Please."

Dadashev shook his head, even fainter than the first time.

"If I don't, the referee's gonna do it."

You could all but see Dadashev considering his options. Still, Dadashev had nothing for his trainer. It's not that he couldn't hear him. Or that he didn't understand. This was a willful act, perhaps the most willful of all.

"C'mon, Max," McGirt said. "Please."

Finally, McGirt did what his fighter would not: surrender.

"That's it, doc," he told the ringside physician. Then he turned to the ref, Kenny Chevalier. "That's it."

Subriel Matias, the winner, fell to his knees, elated. As a child in Maternillo, Puerto Rico, Matias had been bullied because of his dark skin. In 2012, he was shot in the back and legs, then did federal time on conspiracy drug charges. "I wouldn't snitch," he said. But Friday night, Matias found himself 14-0, all by stoppage, and on course for a title shot. "I'm the pride of my neighborhood," he would declare.


Three minutes had passed since McGirt's surrender. Dadashev remained on his stool as the decision was announced, the ringside physician still in his corner. There were cuts on his eyes, and his left flank -- where he recently had the image of a gladiator tattooed on his belly -- reddened by Matias' incessant pounding. He wasn't gruesome, at least not by boxing standards. Just a portrait of defeat.

There hadn't been a moment during the fight to jump up in protest, no sequence that called out for a stoppage. Dadashev kept boxing, kept fighting back. But he kept weakening, too. The latter rounds saw Matias cut off not just the ring but Dadashev's hope. The attack was relentless, constricting, inevitable. Dadashev took 319 shots, 260 of them power punches.

Dadashev tried but couldn't exit the ring on his own power. First, he sat on the steps to the ring apron to gather himself. Then, while being escorted to the dressing room, with the doctor holding his right shoulder -- approximately eight minutes after McGirt called it off -- he could no longer support himself.


The doctor called for a gurney. As Dadashev was put on it, he began to vomit -- first in a towel, then a red bucket.

According to reports, he lost consciousness in the ambulance on the way to UM Prince George's Hospital Center. There, he underwent a two-hour procedure to relieve a subdural hematoma, commonly known as a brain bleed. A portion of his skull was removed to relieve pressure on the brain; he was put into a medically induced coma.

If his condition remains critical, then so do his dreams. Dadashev is another renowned former amateur from eastern Europe who went to California to join the stable of Egis Klimas. Klimas himself arrived from Lithuania in 1989 with $42. Now he's a globe-trotting manager with a gym full of champions in the coastal town of Oxnard. Among them: light heavyweights Oleksandr Gvozdyk and Sergey Kovalev, and perhaps the best fighter in the world, lightweight Vasiliy Lomachenko.

Dadashev wanted what they have -- not just titles, but a green card. Then again, in a country that celebrates victory as virtue, winning a title seemed a fail-safe way to gain one's citizenship.

"He studies his English so hard," Klimas said Friday afternoon.

With his wife, Elizabeth, and his 2-year-old son, Daniel, in St. Petersburg, Dadashev lived mostly in Oxnard in a house that Egis maintains for his up-and-coming fighters. Unlike the others, though, he didn't party or go on sightseeing ventures. He rarely leaves his room. He watches fights on YouTube. He watches American movies: "Scarface," "The Godfather," and his favorite, "Jumanji." They were a great help in learning English, he said last October.

With a full beard, he looked like his moniker, "Mad Max." A couple of months ago, he had his belly tattooed with the images of Zeus and the Gladiator. "Zeus can do anything," he said. "And the gladiator can fight."

But on Thursday, as he came to the fighter meetings almost clean-shaven, Dadashev seemed different, with soft features and a slender neck. He said he was reading children's books to help him with his English. He was also playing chess "for mental improvement."

"After this fight, I will send my documents for the green card," he said.

His wife would be joining him after the fight.

He still had the dream. Sunbathing.

In Miami. Or Hawaii.

 

[patscorpio]

RIP ..man was too brave

 

[patscorpio]

This is one of those prime Margarito type asswhoopings, Matias broke him

unfortunately poignant

 

[Omar Little]

Hopefully this doesnt affect Matias going forward. I like the upside of this Puerto Rican.

 

[mr. smoke weed]

After watching the fight in full, Teofimo biggest problem is he doesn't use the shoulder roll effectively. He leaves the left hand down and doesn't roll when the left hand comes causing him to get caught with right hand whenever a 1-2 comes while he's set on countering the jab.

He has great reflexes (for now) so he gets away with bad defense whenever his opponent just throws one punch. He's going to be in trouble if he doesn't correct this before the Commey fight.

good eye

 

[mr. smoke weed]

Did Berto teach teo the shoulder roll

 

[patscorpio]

Did Berto teach teo the shoulder roll

 

[reservoirdogs]

@the old mongoose @patscorpio @mr. smoke weed and others who know some things about boxing history

is it just me or the likes of Pascal, Haye, Lopez, Davis, etc... are kinda a new breed of fighters who fight in a style which wasn't really presnet before the 00's. Maybe Roy Jones started it. I'm talking about the dudes who rely on athleticism a lot, fight in spurts, circle on the outside jump in with 2-3 punch combos and then jump back outside, their jab is not their strongest facet they rather like to throw fast, unpredictable, looping shots, their defense is mostly their reflexes, keeping the distance and the constant threat of counters.

Imo that's Roy's influence but thing is he was a once in a lifetime athlete and despite the flash stuff he had skills too, he had a whole system.
Definitely the biggest influence I see on boxing in the last 10-15 years next to Floyd's style (I know it existed before but he made it trendy) or lately Loma and his pivots.

 

[mr. smoke weed]

@the old mongoose @patscorpio @mr. smoke weed and others who know some things about boxing history

is it just me or the likes of Pascal, Haye, Lopez, Davis, etc... are kinda a new breed of fighters who fight in a style which wasn't really presnet before the 00's. Maybe Roy Jones started it. I'm talking about the dudes who rely on athleticism a lot, fight in spurts, circle on the outside jump in with 2-3 punch combos and then jump back outside, their jab is not their strongest facet they rather like to throw fast, unpredictable, looping shots, their defense is mostly their reflexes, keeping the distance and the constant threat of counters.

Imo that's Roy's influence but thing is he was a once in a lifetime athlete and despite the flash stuff he had skills too, he had a whole system.
Definitely the biggest influence I see on boxing in the last 10-15 years next to Floyd's style (I know it existed before but he made it trendy) or lately Loma and his pivots.

Lets talk.abt this in the chat brotha

 

[The axe murderer]

Lets talk.abt this in the chat brotha

Which chat is there

 

[reservoirdogs]

Which chat is there

I think he was talking about the Ringside Rave twitter chat

 

[The axe murderer]

I think he was talking about the Ringside Rave twitter chat

not quite sure where that is breh