45) Canelo Alvarez ***** MD Points 12: US Fight Commentary TV -
v Canelo Alvarez 14 September 2013 WBA WBC Light-Middleweight Nevada [r1] … Floyd coming forwards … Nice counter left hook by Alvarez … [r2] … Canelo eats the jab from Mayweather … Now Canelo doubling up on the jab … Canelo with a big left hook … [r3] … Canelo quick first with the jab … combination … Combination by Mayweather … counter-jab by Canelo … [r4] … Double left hook by Canelo … Mayweather countering … nice right hand off the jab … stiff right hand to the body … nice combination [Canelo] … great round … [r5] … Alvarez goes to the body … Counter right thrown by Canelo … triple jab … Great right hand [Mayweather] … left and right … [r6] … Right uppercut by Canelo … Left hook … toe to toe … counter-attack by Alvarez … [r7] … A lot of exchanges … right hand to the body by Mayweather … sublime uppercut … beginning to tee-off … Canelo comes back … [r8] … Alvarez goes to work on the body … combinations to the body by Mayweather … Canelo with a straight right hand … has Floyd Mayweather on the ropes … Double left hand by Mayweather … [r9] … The bigger man backing up … Double jab from Canelo countered … Right hand [Mayweather] … Double jab … [r10] … Nice double jab by Canelo … Mayweather getting busy … Right hand [Canelo] … [r11] … Right hand by Mayweather … now going on the attack … [r12] … Canelo needs a knockout … Who can get to Floyd Mayweather? … Canelo with the right hand over the top … right hand … [114-114, 116-112, 117-111] US fight commentary
48) Manny Pacquiao Points 12: Mayweather v Pacquiao: At Last TV - Fight Commentary TV -
Twin superstars were born, propelled by a belief in very different dealings ... Until, at last, you may say boxing's latest miracle has arrived. Mayweather v Pacquiao: At Last, Sky Sports 2015
v Manny Pacquiao 2 May 2015 WBA WBC WBO Welterweight Nevada [r1] … The right hand of Mayweather … hard right hand again … [r2] … Now Pacquiao’s going to crack up a little offence … Mayweather lands another straight right hand … Hard left hand by Pacquiao … [r3] … Lead right hand from Mayweather … Body shots by Pacquiao … Hard right hand by Mayweather … [r4] … Pacquiao is throwing a lot of punches … right hook … [r5] … Mayweather has seized command again … [r6] … The straight left [Pacquiao] … good body shot … [r7] … Mayweather having a very good round … Hard left hand lands again for Pacquiao … [r8] … He [Pacquiao] has not been able to crank up the volume … Hard right hand by Mayweather … great left hook … again … [r9] … He is more accurate and he is limiting Pacquiao’s offence … Mayweather is backing off … too late … [r10] … Hard left hand to the body by Pacquiao … He’s [Mayweather] stole the last three rounds [Lederman] … Better this round [Pacquiao] … Neither man doing much … [r11] … Hard right hand by Mayweather … Body shot by Pacquiao … The footwork of Manny Pacquiao is the big issue … [r12] … He [Pacquiao] came into the ring without the tactical ammunition to open up Mayweather’s envelope [sic]. US fight commentary
[8.9] AARON PRYOR 40-39-1-0: The Ring online - Hawk Time, ESPN
Aaron Pryor, whose emotionally charged whirlwind attack propelled him to world title honors and eventually the International Boxing Hall of Fame, died Sunday morning at his Cincinnati residence according to his family. Pryor, who suffered from heart disease in recent years as well as longstanding vision problems, was 60.
‘Aaron was known around the world as ‘The Hawk’ and delighted millions of fans with his aggressive and crowd-pleasing style,’ said wife Frankie Pryor, who married Aaron underneath the newly dedicated pavilion on the IBHOF grounds in June 2003. ‘To our family, he was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle and friend. We appreciate the outpouring of condolences and sympathy and ask that our family be allowed time to grieve and mourn his loss.’
Along with Frankie, Pryor is survived by sons Aaron junior, Antwan Harris, daughter Elizabeth Wagner and three grandsons, Adam, Austin and Aaron III.
Like countless others, Pryor used boxing to escape the difficult life he experienced while growing up in Cincinnati. His mercurial hand and foot speed allowed him to outmaneuver his opponents and enabled him to build a highly successful 204-16 amateur career that included National AAU championships in 1973 and 1975, a silver medal in the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City and a victory over Thomas Hearns in the lightweight finals of the 1976 National Golden Gloves tournament.
Pryor appeared on track to earn a spot on the 1976 US Olympic team but his dreams were derailed after losing twice on points to Howard Davis junior. Pryor served as an alternate to the team that went on to win five gold medals but to add insult to injury from Pryor’s standpoint, Davis went on to win the Val Barker Trophy as the games’ outstanding boxer and earn a then-record $185,000 in his pro debut. Meanwhile, Pryor earned substantially less when he turned pro by stopping Larry Smith in two rounds on November 12 1976.
Pryor began his career with five straight knockouts but the purses were three and four figures instead of the six Davis earned. To make ends meet he worked at a supermarket in Cincinnati’s run-down Over-The-Rhine neighborhood. Buddy LaRosa, the owner of the city’s largest chain of pizza parlors, purchased Pryor’s contract, paid him a couple of hundred dollars a week and allowed the fighter to focus solely on his boxing.
Over time, Pryor began to raise eyebrows with his take-no-prisoners style. While his nickname ‘The Hawk’ aptly described his predatory mindset inside the ring, it actually was a tribute to Ken Hawk, a longtime friend who stuck with Pryor in good times, bad times and the worst times. After out-pointing cagey Canadian Johnny Summerhays over eight rounds in just his eighth pro fight, Pryor began a knockout streak that eventually generated some of the notoriety he felt should have been his all along. His victims included ‘Stormin’ Norman Goins, Al Ford, former 140-pound titlist Alfonso ‘Peppermint’ Frazer and former 130-pound title challenger ‘Julio ‘Diabilito’ Valdez but his pulse-pounding NBC-televised 10th-round knockout over Leonidas Asprilla, then the WBC’s fifth-rated lightweight, vaulted Pryor into the title picture.
However, the lightweight champions wanted nothing to do with Pryor. Hilmer Kenty, who won the WBA belt just 42 days earlier from Ernesto Espana, had suffered eight losses to Pryor in the amateurs while WBC titleholder Jim Watt was set to face Pryor’s nemesis, Davis junior, in less than two months’ time. So, after blowing out Carl Crowley in 135 seconds on the same day 1976 US Olympian Sugar Ray Leonard lost to Roberto Duran, Pryor jumped up five pounds and signed to meet legendary WBA junior welterweight champion Antonio Cervantes, a 100-fight veteran who was making the seventh defense of his second reign and had nearly as many championship fights (20) as Pryor had fights as a pro (25).
Even at 34, the long and lean Colombian possessed an enviable blend of exquisite long-range skills and explosive punching power. The over-aggressive Pryor learned that first-hand when he tasted a beautifully timed counter right and hit the floor with 30 seconds remaining in round one. As was his habit, Pryor instantly jumped to his feet and wind-milled his right hand as he took Larry Rosadilla’s count, showing everyone that the fall was of the flash variety.
The bobbing-and-weaving Pryor wisely curbed his enthusiasm in Round 2 as he circled the champion and peppered him with power combinations that kept Cervantes overly focused on defense. A solid left opened a gash over Cervantes’ right eye in round three and a titanic right to the jaw put the future Hall of Famer down for the count in round four, the second and final KO loss of Cervantes’ career.
As Rozadilla tolled 10, Pryor got to experience the very moment he had dreamed about his entire life: A newly crowned champion being lifted into the air as his friends, family and fans cheered themselves hoarse. Pryor was the first boxing champion from Cincinnati since Wallace ‘Bud’ Smith ruled the lightweights a quarter-century earlier and, at that moment at least, the jealousy and angst that was brought about by the two losses to Davis appeared to be light years away.
But those feelings didn’t stay away for long. When asked by The Ring’s Lonnie Wheeler what he would like to do with his purse from the Cervantes fight he said this:
‘What I would like to do is to go to New York. I want to go to Howard Davis’ house. Just drop in on him.’
Soon it was Pryor who was on top in the rivalry as Davis was soundly outpointed by Watt while ‘The Hawk’ continued to prey on his overwhelmed opponents. Three weeks after dusting Danny Myers in a non-title fight in Dayton, Pryor stopped Gaetan Hart in six, Lennox Blackmoore in two, DuJuan Johnson in seven, Miguel Montilla in 12 and Akio Kameda in six to run his knockout streak to 23. But while he was flooring his opponents for eight, nine and 10, Pryor suffered early knockdowns against Johnson and Kameda. By now Davis was far in his rear view mirror; Pryor was a pound-for-pound presence who was on a collision course with a triple-crown champion that dearly wanted to add an unprecedented fourth.
At age 30, Alexis Arguello was already a living legend in Nicaragua as he had captured world championships at featherweight, super featherweight and lightweight and, after losing his first title shot against Ernesto Marcel, had won his next 19 in succession. At 5-foot-10 he towered over his opponents and while his 72-inch reach kept foes at bay it was his two-fisted power that made him a superstar. But as fierce as he was inside the ropes, that’s how classy he was outside them. The previous year he was cast in the rare role of villain as he took on the wildly popular Ray ‘Boom Boom’ Mancini, whose story of winning the lightweight title denied his father by World War II made him the overwhelming sentimental favorite. Moments after stopping Mancini in the 14th Arguello not only regained his popularity but also became a beloved figure in America by showing genuine concern for Mancini during their joint post-fight interview.
Even the raging Pryor wasn’t immune to Arguello’s charm. Moments after stopping Kameda, Arguello took part in the post-fight interview with NBC’s Dr Ferdie Pacheco. Spotting Arguello to his right, Pryor did his best to rev himself up.
‘I felt like it was time to go into business then because I knew that Arguello was looking at me and I want him bad,’ Pryor declared with an intimidating sneer on his face. ‘Bob Arum had already signed for the fight and I signed already. You think you saw something today, God don’t know and he don’t know I want him. Arguello, you’re mine sucker. I’ll pay you back for Boom Boom Mancini.’
As he shook the smiling Arguello’s hand, Pryor’s mood suddenly shifted from anger to admiration.
‘Boy, I’m so glad you signed it ain’t funny,’ he said. ‘You will fight a man this time. I’m a man, you fought that young 19 year old boy …’
‘Congratulations,’ Arguello said. ‘God bless you, and I know that you are a man and you are a good boxer.’
‘Thank you,’ Pryor said. ‘You are, too. You’re a great fighter. I’m just like Duran: I was born with no shoes on. I was raised up with no shoes on, so this fight’s going to pay for them.’
‘The same thing happened to me,’ Arguello accurately replied. ‘Don’t worry about it.’
When the night of November 12 1982 arrived, Pryor and Arguello proved that ambition without animus can produce not only a great fight, but a fight for the ages. Pryor ran out of the corner and swarmed Arguello with a hyperactive assault that was intense even for him. Arguello, forced to fight far faster than he would like, tried his best to keep up with the champion and from time to time he landed his trademark right-hand bombs but largely ignored his vaunted body attack.