salido is saying this is his last fight 
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siri
.. siri
HBO WCB 12/9 Tripleheader: Salido/Roman, Farmer/Ogawa, & Vargas/Smith
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THE MACHINE
night owl
That's my brawler
1970s HeRon Flow
Takin Penitentiary Chances
Damn it Sirisalido is saying this is his last fight
You were supposed to Cash out against Loma
salido gave us years good/great fights/brawls...whatever man..i only wished i had a chance to see him fight live
Great career Orlando. Never a dull moment.
salido beating lomachenko and me calling it..nothing greater...gotta err on experience on brehs...great moment in boxing
christ
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
Hats off to Salido. The Lopez, Vargas etc wars had to be taking a toll on him.
Salido: All of The Wars Caught Up With Me, I'm an Old Fighter Now
Salido: All of The Wars Caught Up With Me, I'm an Old Fighter Now
On Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, it was a changing of the guard as Miguel "Mickey" Roman (58-13, 45 KOs) made himself a player in the super featherweight division with a ninth round stoppage of two division world champion Orlando "Siri" Salido (44-14, 31 KOs) in a Fight of the Year Candidate.
Salido appeared to be winning the contest until the fourth round, when things began to shift in the other direct when Roman scored a flash knockdown.
Another knockdown was scored by Roman in the eight and this time Salido was very hurt and barely survived. In the ninth, Roman went right back to work and scored a third knockdown - which quickly prompted referee Robert Byrd to stop the fight at 1:43 of the ninth round.
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Salido is well known for being a warrior and being involved in numerous Fight of The Year clashes - but the years have not been kind to his body with the countless grueling efforts in the ring.
He admits that his times has clearly passed and there wasn't enough in the gas tank to beat a younger fighter like Roman.
"As they say father time is undefeated. All the wars I had caught up with me [on Saturday]. I am leaving the ring knowing that I gave the fans a great a fight that I can give them. I hope they enjoyed it," Salido said.
“The mind and heart were there, but my body just was not responding. Roman, is a young fighter who gave his all and I was not able to keep up with him. I just an old fighter now”
Roman is overwhelmed with emotion to gain the biggest win over his career.
“It was a great win against a legendary fighter, I came to fight in a war and that is what it was. A great learning lesson and it will make me a better fighter in the future," Roman said.
HBO's Tripleheader Peaked at 618,000 Viewers Saturday Night
HBO's Tripleheader Peaked at 618,000 Viewers Saturday Night
By Keith Idec
HBO’s “Boxing After Dark” tripleheader amounted to an entertaining telecast Saturday night, but its ratings dropped from the network’s previous two boxing offerings due to a lack of star power and some competition.
A week after Puerto Rican icon Miguel Cotto’s farewell fight, an upset, unanimous-decision defeat to Sadam Ali, peaked at 1,012,000 viewers, Saturday’s broadcast drew a peak audience of 618,000 during the main event. That bout, an action-packed brawl Miguel Roman won by ninth-round technical knockout against Orlando Salido, averaged 576,000 viewers, according to ratings released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research.
Mexico’s Roman (58-12, 45 KOs) dropped Salido in the fourth, eighth and ninth rounds before referee Robert Byrd stopped their scheduled 10-round, 130-pound fight at 1:43 of the ninth round. Mexico’s Salido (44-14-4, 31 KOs) announced his retirement after the fight.
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The co-feature that aired before Roman-Salido, Kenichi Ogawa’s controversial upset of Tevin Farmer, drew an average audience of 513,000 viewers and peaked at 587,000 viewers.
Japan’s Ogawa (23-1, 17 KOs) won a split decision over Philadelphia’s Farmer (25-5-1, 5 KOs), who seemed to out-work Ogawa during their 12-round fight for the then-vacant IBF super featherweight title.
Two judges – Burt Clements (116-112) and Max DeLuca (115-113) – scored the fight for Ogawa. Judge Tim Cheatham had it 116-112 for Farmer.
The opener of HBO’s three-bout broadcast, Francisco Vargas’ technical-decision victory against Stephen Smith, was watched by a peak audience of 540,000 and averaged 486,000 viewers.
Mexico’s Vargas (24-1-2, 17 KOs) was declared the winner of a fight that was halted in the ninth round, when England’s Smith (25-4, 15 KOs) suffered a gruesome injury to his left ear. All three judges – Eric Cheek (88-83), John McKaie (88-83) and Glenn Trowbridge (89-82) – had Vargas ahead by comfortable margins when an accidental clash of heads caused a grotesque gash that essentially cut Smith’s left ear in half.
HBO’s broadcast began at 10:20 p.m. ET, one hour and 20 minutes following the start of an ESPN telecast that featured Vasyl Lomachenko’s technical knockout of Guillermo Rigondeaux in the main event. The Lomachenko-Rigondeaux fight ended just before 11:30 p.m. ET, when HBO was televising the Ogawa-Farmer fight.
The Roman-Salido main event began just before 12:20 a.m. ET, almost an hour following the conclusion of Lomachenko-Rigondeaux.
ESPN’s four-fight telecast averaged 1,730,000 viewers, which made it the third most-watched boxing broadcast on basic or premium cable since 2012 (http://www.boxingscene.com/espns-loma-rigo-watched-by-173m-basic-cables-no-2-2012--123354).