Bernard Dunne verus Richardo Cordoba

<TABLE id=inlinetable cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=3 width=580 border=0><TBODY><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec" vAlign=top><TD><CENTER>Junior featherweight
Bernard Dunne KO11 Ricardo Cordoba
Wins a junior featherweight title</CENTER></TD><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec" vAlign=top><TD>Records: Dunne, 27-1, 14 KOs; Cordoba, 34-2-2, 21 KOs
</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec" vAlign=top><TD>Rafael's remark: We've seen some great fights already this year, such as Juan Manuel Marquez-Juan Diaz and Andre Berto-Luis Collazo. But Dunne's dramatic knockout of Cordoba at 2:59 of the 11th round was the end of a fabulous action fight that will be part of the fight-of-the-year discussion. It was just a tremendous battle with wild momentum swings, knockdowns galore (six in total) and plenty of blood and guts. Thank goodness for the Internet so anyone around the world could see the fight live on Irish network RTE's Web site. It was worth sitting at an office desk watching rather than being able to lounge on the couch in front of the TV.


Dunne, 29, of Ireland, gave the partisan crowd of about 9,000 a memorable victory in the first boxing event at Dublin's O2 Arena as he rallied from deep deficits on all three scorecards to roar back for the improbable win in the first world title bout in Ireland since then-bantamweight titlist Wayne McCullough defended his title in Dublin in 1996.


Cordoba, 24, of Panama, held only the WBA's ludicrous "regular" title since Celestino Caballero (whom Cordoba outpointed in a national title fight in 2004) unified belts in November and was "elevated" to a "super" titleholder last fall. The madness of the WBA, however, is not enough to spoil this great fight.


Dunne, who won his fourth in a row since a shocking first-round knockout loss to Kiko Martinez in Dublin in August 2007 -- a defeat that cost Dunne the European title -- dropped Cordoba with a huge left hook in the third round and nearly had him out. But the round ended before Dunne could finish him. Dunne suffered a bloody gash over his right eye in the fourth and Cordoba was cut over his right eye in the fifth.


Dunne tasted the canvas when he was knocked down hard twice in the fifth round and nearly stopped during the follow-up attack of what was becoming a brutal slugfest. By the 11th round, Cordoba appeared in control, but Dunne, out of nowhere, dropped him three times, including a tremendous left uppercut to finish him. Cordoba was down for several minutes and left on a stretcher to go to the hospital for observation. Even Dunne, the winner, needed oxygen after the fight just to make sure everything was OK.

If you call yourself a Fight Freak, do yourself a favor -- seek out a DVD of this explosive match or search the Internet for the video.


i didnt see this, did anyone else? apparently it was a pretty damn good fight to watch
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Look it up on youtube I heard it's on there. It was a great fight.

 

thats where i am right now actually ::

 

What a war

 

Dunne? Really?

 

Dunne? ::


Why aren't the amateurs turning pro?

 

there was a fair bit of discussion about it on saturday.....it just all took place in the Vitali-Gomez thread

Very entertaining fight....Dunne surprised me....i've been a doubter for a long time, and i thought that the Kiko Martinez fight proved me right and that Dunne would gradually fade into the boxing wilderness

i haven't heard anything post fight on Cordoba's condition......is it safe to persume that no news is good news?

.....as a brit, i'm hoping that European champion Rendall Munroe gets a shot. A clash between Munroe and Dunne has been talked about for a while now - Munroe has beaten Martinez twice since Dunne was destroyed by the Spaniad. I like Rendall, one of my favourite domestic fighters (and strangely, i don't have too many)....and he'd have a decent chance against Bernard.

worth remembering that whilst this was for the WBA belt, once again we have a situation where the WBA have two belt holders......Caballero holds the 'super' version.

 

yeah, i hope that is not the case.....Dunne is gonna have a tough time keeping hold of that belt....Munroe is a threat but by no means the most dangerous contender out there.....it's a good match

how much press has Dunne got over the weekend....lost amongst all the six nations celebrations?

 

Always been a fan of Dunne. Great fight. Having said that, his chin will always be a liability. Probably the reason why I like watching him. weak chin + fun Style always makes for a good fight.