Fernando Vargas VS Shane Mosley 2

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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Mosley stops Vargas in six![/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Saturday, July 15 2006[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=+1]Shane wins one-sided affair
Ponce De Leon, Diaz win by KO[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]By Chris Bronte at ringside
This time it was decisive. Shane Mosley (43-4, 37 KOs) defeated Fernando Vargas (26-4, 22 KOs) again in a one-sided sixth round TKO Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Mosley was much, much quicker than Vargas, easily winning the first round. The fight heated up in round two, but Mosley continued to have the edge as the bout progessed. Vargas was cut over the right eye by a punch in round five. Mosley dropped Vargas with a left hook in the sixth and Vargas had great difficulty in getting up. Referee Kenny Bayless stopped the fight moments later. Time was 2:38. At the time of the stoppage, Mosley had won every round on all three judges' card.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]WBO junior featherweight champion Daniel Ponce De Leon (29-1, 27 KOs) destroyed Sod Looknongyangtoy (27-2, 10 KOs) in just 52 seconds. A straight left knocked Looknongyangtoy out cold collapsing face first spectacularly to the deck. Ponce De Leon previously won a competitive 12-rounder against Looknongyangtoy last year.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]WBA lightweight champion Juan Diaz (29-0, 14 KOs) scored a ninth round stoppage of Randy Suico (24-2, 21 KOs). It was a non-stop punching demonstration for Diaz who started in round one and never stopped. Suico was never in trouble, but referee Joe Cortez finally decided Suico had taken enough punches and stopped the fight. Time was 2:06.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Olympian welterweight Rock Allen (9-0, 6 KOs) was extended the distance against Henry Mitchell (6-6-1, 1 KO), winning 40-36 on all cards in a four-rounder.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Welterweight Ben Tackie (28-6-1, 16 KOs) scored a ninth round knockout over Wilfredo Negron (25-10, 19 KOs). Tackie dropped Negron in round one, then brutalized him until round nine when he dropped him again. The bout was stopped at 2:09 of the ninth.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Jonathan Oquendo TKO3 (1:10) Arturo Bracamontes (feather)
Anthony Salcido D6 Enrique Colin (jr welter)
Eudi Gonzalez TKO2 (2:09) Cesar Valentin (jr middle)[/FONT]

 

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SHANE MOSLEY vs FERNANDO VARGAS 2

A sense of unfinished business hung in the air last time ...

Location:
MGM Grand, LAS VEGAS, July 15
Graham's Odds:
Mosley -150; Vargas +125
Over 11.5 -180; under 11.5 +140

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Setting:
MGM Grand, LAS VEGAS, July 15






Given the closeness of the first bout, and the fact that Fernando Vargas was still fighting strongly despite the grotesquely swollen left eye that brought proceedings to an end in the 10th round, I was a little surprised that Shane Mosley was installed as a clear favourite for this weekend???s rematch.
This, to me, is much closer to an even-money fight.
I think there is a perception that Vargas is, at 28, a spent fighter. People in the boxing trade seem to sense a vulnerability about him.
Mosley, 34, is also thought to have seen better days but he is seen as simply the better boxer: slicker, smarter and faster than Vargas. The feeling seems to be that this time it might be a lot easier for Mosley because he will be better able than Vargas to make adjustments.
I am not quite so sure that we should be writing off Vargas, however, even though he suffered those devastating knockout losses to Felix ???Tito??? Trinidad and Oscar De La Hoya and has given some struggling performances.
I thought that when Vargas fought Mosley last February he looked better than he has in a long time, and without the handicap of the alarmingly swollen eye he might well have won the scheduled 12-rounder.
In the last fight, Mosley was so dominant early that it looked like being a blowout, but Vargas fought his way back and seemed to be turning the fight around when his left eye started to swell and shut.
The sight of a one-eyed opponent in front of him seemed to give Mosley a fresh surge of energy. A sense of unfinished business hung in the air when referee Joe Cortez waved the finish.
Mosley is adamant that he will leave no doubts this time. He said in a telephone conference call with the media that, after having figured out Vargas in the first fight, the return will be a ???breeze???.
For his part, Vargas says that he is taking the fight for vindication while Mosley is doing it for the money.
There is no question in my mind that Vargas is the one who wanted this return fight for what I would consider the ???right??? reasons: the need to get revenge, to prove who is the better man. Mosley???s incentive seem entirely economic. Yet Mosley???s professionalism will demand that, as always, he will bring total commitment to the ring ??? and Sugar Shane???s fighter???s pride is on the line, too, just as it is for Vargas.
Usually I like the faster boxer in a fight, and Mosley has the clear advantage there ??? hand speed and foot speed.
Vargas, though, looked much the bigger, stronger man in the last fight and his strength did seem to be telling on Mosley by the middle rounds.
Sugar Shane had gone back to the welterweight division prior to the first fight with Vargas and he turned professional as a lightweight; Vargas has said that the scheduled 12-rounder will be his last as 154-pounder.
So, Vargas is naturally the bigger man. The question is: Will Vargas be able to use that size and strength to his advantage and wear Mosley down or will he simply be outboxed and nailed with counter punches?
The overall impression I had the last time was that Vargas was fighting basically a physical fight while Mosley sought to be stylish and savvy.
After his blazing start ??? I had him sweeping the first three rounds ??? Mosley tended to fight in spurts. They were, though, effective spurts ??? flashy and points-scoring. Vargas, meanwhile, just kept marching straight ahead, and he was landing the heavier punches. ???I was on him,??? Vargas said afterwards. No argument there.
Last time, Vargas fought like a man who felt he could walk through everything that was being thrown at him. His trainer, Danny Smith, feels that Vargas was too intent on trying to knock Mosley out. This time he wants more jabs, more straight right hands ??? and definitely a faster start.
Mosley is back being trained by his father, Jack, after working with first Joe Goossen, then John David Jackson, over the last couple of years. Jack says we will see Shane at his very best, using what the father calls a ???power boxing??? style with lots of combinations and body punches. The father-son combination enjoyed some great moments in the past and this fight could indeed see the magic return, but when a fighter has three trainers in two years a sceptic might raise concerns about lack of linkage.
Then we have the matter of Vargas packing on weight between fights. Will the effort of shifting the surplus have a negative effect? Trainer Danny Smith says that no, it won???t. He said from Las Vegas this week that he was much happier about Vargas???s weight than he was for the last fight and that ???El Feroz??? was just three pounds over the 154-pound limit a week before the fight ??? right where he should be.
As ever, then, there are matters to consider as we weigh up this fight.
An old New York fight guy named Ben Greene used to tell me that when you are trying to make up your mind who will win a rematch, ask yourself which fighter is likely to be able to improve on the previous performance.
With this in mind, I do think that there is scope for improvement on the Vargas side: more jabs, certainly, but also a higher punch output, a faster pace, more of a focus on winning rounds rather than trying to hurt Mosley with every punch.
And Mosley? He fought well last time but I am not sure that he can fight a great deal better in this weekend???s encore. I just had the impression that he was boxing at full stretch in the first bout ??? and that Vargas was giving him all he could handle.
Using this line of reasoning, I will go for Vargas to pull off the upset on a close, perhaps split, decision after 12 absorbing rounds.

 

[Goodfella9783]

Holy mcfucknuggets...I didn't watch the last fight. But did a anyone see Vargas' eye after the 1st fight??? Damn.

 

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MOSLEY TKO6 VARGAS: Leaving the Crossroads

15.07.06 ??? By Karl E. H. Seigfried: Before the action in Las Vegas tonight, HBO commentator Jim Lampley called the rematch between Shane Mosley and Fernando Vargas a ???crossroads fight,??? just as he had called the original match-up back on February 25th of this year. This begged the question of just how many times a pair of fighters can collect prizefight money battering each other at the crossroads before they???re finally forced to move on down the road. Tonight, both fighters finally put foot to pavement, moving in very different directions.

???Sugar??? Shane Mosley, 42-4 (36) going into the fight, came out somewhat cautiously at the opening bell, as did Fernando ???El Feroz??? Vargas. Mosley quickly went to work, catching Vargas with a light left hand and then body-shots with both the right and left. After insistently complaining to referee Kenny Bayless for a very low blow by Vargas, Mosley landed a clean overhand right to Mosley???s left eye???the eye that had swollen to such grotesque proportions in the first fight, causing the TKO stoppage that Vargas still insists was caused by repeated head-butting, not by the repeated right hands that Mosley, commentators Emanuel Steward & Larry Merchant, referee Joe Cortez, and most of the world thinks caused it.. As the two fighters clinched, both rained body-shots upon each other, as they would throughout the evening. Mosley regularly used his jab to keep Vargas at distance. Throughout the round, ???The Aztec Warrior??? looked very slow, almost clumsy, in contrast to trainer Danny Smith???s pre-fight insistence that ???Fernando???s going to start a lot faster this time??? and description of Vargas??? new training methods, supposedly emphasizing speed and lightness over muscular bulk and strength.

During the second round, Mosley continued to jab Vargas away, following the earlier words of his father and once-and-current trainer, Jack Mosley: ???I want him to have a good, hard, stiff, jab in the rematch.??? In an early clinch in a hold-heavy match, Mosley landed a nice right to the body (as he would do repeatedly) before Vargas was warned for holding or hitting behind the head; a few clinches later Mosley would rock his opponent with a huge right to the body as Vargas was turning to complain to the referee. In subsequent clinches, Vargas landed a strong but glancing blow to the solar plexus and a right to the jaw. Back at distance, Mosley landed a jab and overhand right in a combination that would be repeated throughout the match. At the end of a Mosley-dominated round full of clinching, inside fighting, close-up body-shots, and peppering jabs, Vargas gave Mosley his best mad dog look as they walked past each other at the bell. If only points were awarded for attitude???.

Mosley (a former world champion at lightweight, welterweight, and junior middleweight) came out strong in the third, landed two big rights to the head, but was answered by nice right uppercuts from Vargas as they clinched. Mosley kept Vargas at bay with strong jabs as the audience chanted his name, which they had done for his opponent in the previous round. Vargas, 26-3 (22) before the fight, repeatedly came up very short with his jabs, and he seemed to have a bad habit of leaning in as he tried to land. A left-hook/right combination by Mosley was followed by a backing-up jab; this jab continued to defuse Vargas??? attacks and wilt his punches before he could even get them off. The pair traded body shots, but Mosley???s multiple jabs (in groups of three and four) continued to dominate Vargas, whose trainer had earlier insisted that ???We???re doubling and tripling the jab, firing the right hand, closing the ring off??????which, unfortunately for Vargas, actually described his opponent???s performance perfectly.

The fourth began with more double and triple Mosley jabs, and the victor of the first fight again proved himself the quicker fighter, ducking way under a gigantic, swooshing Vargas right and following up with his own right to the body. More clinching and body-shots by both men followed, then more jabs by Mosley and a straight left square in the center of Vargas??? gut. Vargas, a former two-time junior middleweight world champion, then landed one of his better punches of the evening???a solid right that turned Mosley???s head on a swivel. The Mosley Jab closed out the round, snapping Vargas??? head back as he seemed to have no answer or defense for his opponent???s accurate left hand. A big right by Mosley put a definite period on the stanza, turning Vargas??? head around right as the bell rang.

The fifth round began as a clinch-fest, Mosley continuing to land body-shots with his right on the inside. Although Vargas unofficially weighed in fourteen pounds heavier than Mosley on fight night, his added bulk didn???t seem to have much effect on the infighting. A solid right by Mosley was answered (after a couple of clinches) by an equally strong right by Vargas, who put a mini-streak together by following up with a couple of straight lefts that snapped back Mosley???s head. As the fighters traded in close, the crowd divided into competing, chanting choirs. For the first time in the fight, blood could be seen coming from a straight vertical cut outside Vargas??? right eye (NOT the eye disfigured in the first fight). Referee Bayless, after separating the clinching boxers, called time for the ring doctor to check out the cut, and ruled it caused by a punch. Mosley finished out the round with a short left hook and three solid jabs. As Vargas nullified the jab by grabbing and pinning Mosley???s left arm, Mosley wailed away with his free right up until the sound of the bell.

Vargas started the sixth round with a head-snapping jab, but was answered by a huge right and strong jab from Mosley. Vargas continued to miss big, leaning into a gigantic overhand right and a jab, but then managed to land a very strong jab of his own. Mosley showed more of his beautiful speed, jabbing and easily ducking Vargas??? slow counters, answering in the negative the assertion by Boxing Monthly???s Graham Houston that, ???If Vargas can slow down Mosley and start hitting him consistently he can win??????Vargas could do none of the above. After a missed jab by Vargas, a sweet left hook by Mosley knocked Vargas to the canvas. In his post-fight interview, Mosley said he was thinking, even as he threw his ???bounce-back left hook,??? of the up-on-his-toes left hook that Oscar De La Hoya used to vanquish Vargas back in 2002, and that ???[Vargas] knew I was going for the right hand, so he wasn???t expecting the left hook.??? ???El Feroz??? tried to make it a flash knockdown by attempting to jump immediately to his feet, but he fell back down and continued to struggle as the referee counted in his face. He finally made it up, but Mosley immediately leaped on him and teed off, more like Jack Dempsey than his namesake Ray Robinson. Bayless waved it off, as Vargas was hunched over with no answer and no defense, totally helpless. Sitting morosely on his stool moments later, Vargas??? right eye was bloody, and his left had started to swell.

The TKO was announced as 2:38 of round six, but Vargas has no excuse to argue the ???technical??? nature of the knockout, as he has been doing for the original fight. Mosley, who has said that he would follow this fight with a move back down to welterweight, could not have given a more dominant performance. He landed exactly twice as many total punches as Vargas (136 versus 68), and almost twice as many power punches (74 versus 47). For the man billed as the powerful puncher, the few punches that Vargas did manage to land didn???t seem to back up Mosley at all, and the victor, although obviously very nervous about the looseness of one of his front teeth after the fight, said, ???[Vargas] was a little weaker for this fight than he was for the first fight.???

Mosley finally leaves the crossroads for bigger things, answering Larry Merchant???s question about fighting the current pound-for-pound king by saying, ???You never know???Next year would be the perfect opportunity for me to step into the ring with Floyd Mayweather,??? but suggesting that the fight be made after the Pretty Boy takes on Antonio Margarito. Vargas is headed off down a very different road, his bravado completely gone after the fight as he quietly said (eerily echoing Mike Tyson after his first loss to Evander Holyfield), ???He caught me with a good shot and that was it. I take nothing away from his performance.??? Emanuel Steward insisted that Vargas should ???definitely, definitely retire.??? In the best of worlds, Mosley would go on to fight Mayweather in a cross-generational battle of the spiritual sons of Sugar Ray Robinson and Vargas would give up his proposed move to middleweight and instead go off into a happy and healthy retirement, finally taking care of the swollen fifth lumbar disk in his back. However, this is the boxing world, so you never know???.​

 

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[fantasma62]

Foreman, I keep hearing that now Mosley is primed for a big fight. I don't know about that. He beat a Fernando Vargas that was pretty depleted and didn't really look that good. Again, I didn't see the fight, but it was described to me as lopsided.
I wonder if now Mosley thinks he's back while he may have fought and overmatched oppponent.....