That stupid cunt Rios missed weight again.

Don't understand why Marquez is being matched with negative fighters at this point.

 

What about Emile Griffith

 

Marquez rios would still be a damn good matchup. Rios predictability will do him in but who here won't watch? Alvarado is shit outta luck right now. He's simply a much bigger guy than either

 

Fair play to Fedchenko, he did well to survive.

 

The Rios ref was the single worst I've ever seen. I hope that guy's guts get sucked through his ass on an aeroplane toilet

 

The beauty of it is that it never gets written down as a "Home Town Decision", despite the fact that this is what it was, pretty much. Rios is a commodity, a not very good commodity at that, and his people are looking to cash him in, possibly against JM Marquez, at 140. Its kind of imperative that he doesn't lose, so we get what we got last night. Him losing, and winning. :shit:

It was brutal shit, a poor fight made worse by rubbish officiating and the tee-total inability of one guy to figure the other guy out. Rios idea of Plan B is Plan A, Squared.

 

TBH mate, I thought the ref was heavily against him - or at least his style. He was like mommy hovering over a 4 year old riding without stabilizers for the first time. Frantic, preemptive, hair triggered. If he broke one 'clinch' when Rios still had a hand free to punch he must have broken 300. I want that guy dead. I hate him more than the Koch brothers.

Dead I tells you! I want his family DEAD! I want his house burned to the GROUND! I wanna go there in the middle of the night and I wanna PISS ON HIS ASHES!

 

Boxing can't even get corruption right.

 

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I don't even know why I bother watching boxing anymore. The Rios decision was worse that the Cloud vs Campillo decision. Fucking horrible. Rios is garbage, Abril won that fight clear as day. Boxing is seriously bullshit. Why not just make up records for these guys? Why even have people fight anymore. They just give the decision to whoever they want anyway.

 

Yeah, I only watch now because I'm hooked. The corruption has always been there, but there are so few compelling matchups.

 

Here's the thing...the guy was a corpse at 137 then came back at 139. What makes anyone believe he'll make 140 next time out knowing how he killed himself to get to 137 and 139? He might as well move to welterweight now and save himself the trouble of missing weight again.

Rios was and is shit. He's already a spent bullet.

 

Garcia said pre-fight that Rios drank gatorade after 137 and no longer tried to make weight.

 

Why even come back then?

Rios is garbage, nobody can defend this guy anymore. I have no clue what anyone sees in this dude. He's a face first brawler with no skills. Abril schooled him.

 

Rios obviously tried to make the weight. He looked like a skelaton on the scales.

 

How is coming back 2lbs heavier "trying" He ran to the closest burrito stand.

 

Rios is Mexican drinking water, diarrhea by another name.

 

I think he meant after missing weight the first time. He came back two pounds heavier.

 

Isn't there a rule that you have to come back after failing to make weight, or am i wrong.

 

You used to be given up to two hours. Nevada trimmed it down to an hour.
If I'm not mistaken, whether or not a fighter HAS to come back is at the discretion of the opponent, most of whom will tell the heavier fighter to go sweat it off.

In Rios' case, he knew he wasn't making 135. He tried that in NYC, but knew this time around once he hit 137 that his body wasn't giving up 2 lb. more, hence the post-weigh in Gatorade and the 10% fine (Which I think should be much steeper) rather than attempting to lose any more.

 

One thing is very clear about Rios...... he's gonna have a short prime.

Because of his style, AND because of his eating habits/weight problems.

 

One thing is very clear about Rios. He fucking sucks.

 

No he doesn't. The same people who were calling him a BEAST after the Peterson/Acosta/Antillion fights are now saying he's a can.

Rios is a good fighter, and will always do well against guys who stand in front of him.

But he's limited, and against a slickster he's gonna be very beatable.

We already knew all of this.

I still think he may beat Marquez. But Hell, maybe JMM even now has enough left to light Rios up. We'll see.

 

I would take a prime Marquez over Rios.

Now I think Rios size and youth would play a big role.

I'll never understand Rios trying to make 135 again. Poor management. Very poor.

 

Yes, he's not very good and I have been saying this all along. Not once have I said he's a beast. He's a less skilled Margarito.

 

Yes, we are all aware of the good, limited, very beatable fighters out there.

 

JMM will smash Rios.

 

You do realise he looked pretty weight drained right?

I don't think anyone has proclaimed Rios a great fighter, but he can definitely fight.

A fighter like Rios who relies on strength, stamina, energy, power, resilience etc, most of those attributes are going to be heavily compromised from being weight drained as opposed to a fighter who relies heavily on skill and defense.

I agree wholeheartedly that Saturday's Rios did indeed look like a total scrub, but 50% of that was from being weight drained.

 

You're normally a great judge of boxing talent. We forgive you for missing on Rios. No one's perfect. :kidcool:

 

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That's the thing, I've never said he's an amazing fighter. I was just impressed with his heart/toughness/stamina in the Acosta fight, his win over Peterdude 2, and the way he steamrolled Urban Antelope.

It would be easy to say his looking like shit on Saturday was down to Abril, which of course it partly was, but he looked just as bad against Murray, a guy who was in front of him all night.

He looked slow, weak, and crap.

Admittedly he's probably not even as good as I previously thought though, as I would have thought even a weight drained Rios would be too much for the likes of Abril.