Excellent fights on HBO.
Crawford's game plan surprised me. I didnt know he could turn it on like that. Wow, his power carried up. He is one of the most exciting skilled boxers. Looking forward to what we see from this cat. Garcia is lucky promoters troubles separate these two. But after seeing Imam tonight, not sure Danny wants those problems either.
To get it out of the way, I scored Matthysse-Provodnikov a draw. Total fight punch stats are misleading. Prov was killed in punch stats, but total punches don't tell the story of each round.
Prov may have the best chin in boxing. Wow. Just wow. And Matthysse's chin issues were overrated to me. He went down vs. Garcia for accumulation due to fighting with one eye. And Molina can crack, Matthysse was knocked off balance and came back to win the other 2:50 in both rounds.
Both guys can crack, really surprised no one hit the canvas despite both having good chins.
I want to see both guys fight again and they deserve good fights...just give them an easy touch, please!
Edit: Lampley was horrible tonight. I thought the fight was close...but he spent the whole nigh in disbelief over Lederman's card saying Prov was too far back.