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Freddie Roach accuses Antonio Margarito of using ephedra
By Zach Arnold | November 14, 2010
As I noted elsewhere online Saturday night, even atheists might believe in a God after the beating Manny Pacquiao put on Antonio Margarito. What made Saturday’s night fight even more the spectacle is when Pacquiao’s trainer, Freddie Roach, accused Margarito of using Hydroxycut and ephedra in a pre-fight drink. Texas and their standards of drug testing got put in the spotlight once again.
As much as I’d like to say that Floyd Mayweather will eventually fight Manny Pacquiao given his legal troubles and money issues, I think Saturday night’s performance all but closed the door on Mayweather ever accepting such a fight. Who would be next for Pacquiao? Try Shane Mosley.
There was so much interest in Saturday night’s fight between Pacquiao and Margarito that Kevin Iole reported that Dana White allegedly paid Bob Arum a large amount of cash to get a satellite feed of the fight in Germany. Which, in many ways, is about as symbolic of a gesture as you could come up with to talk about what a deplorable card UFC 122 was and why nobody wants to talk about, let alone even remember that they watched it in the first place. It was that bad. I actually felt some decent vibes about Yushin Okami after reading an excellent Sherdog article on the man, but it appears his personality is diametrically opposite to his fighting style in terms of entertainment.
As for UFC 122, Dana White called Marquardt a choker and blamed it on Greg Jackson for fighting for points rather than a finish.
We won’t be seeing Roy Nelson any time soon thanks to that contract he signed with Roy Jones Jr. before he signed with the UFC.
Oh, I would be remiss in forgetting to mention about David Haye’s beating of Audley Harrison. You’re welcome.
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I agree that the card in Germany was worse than it should have been and the boxing match turned out better than I thought that it would in how it was perceived and the buzz surrounding it, so this is indeed a major thumping that boxing gave MMA.
-I tried to hold off buying the PPV, but reading the pbp’s sent me into overdrive. I bought it as Margs was coming out to the ring.
-Nate is the Kenny Florian of the 185 lb division. I actually thought he deserved the nod, but that was definitely a toss up. On a side not, what
retardgave okami the second round. I had it 1st round toss up, 2nd round Nate easily, 3rd round toss up. When I heard that it was UD and one had 30-27 I thought nate was gonna get the UD. Seriously even in a fight where the winner is not clear cut at all you have retards fucking up the judging.-If anyone say, I’d like to know if you guys thought Jones got a gift in his decision over Soto-Karass. From the pBp it seemed he was hurt a few times and Soto was throwing bombs.
-What more should we have expected from an event opposite a Pacman card? It was a night with Okami-nate heading and Dennis siver-Andre Winner as the co-main event. It was pretty much what was expected.
-Karlos Vemola looks like a buzzsaw, but if he doesn’t learn to keep his hands up he’s gonna get KTFO.
Oh and Greg Jackson might start to be going down hill. Two of his recent fights I thought he was way too overconfident in telling his fighter they were winning. He told Guiilard over and over that he was ahead (I thought was wrong), and last week seemed completely shocked that Cub Swanson’s fight went to a split decision (I thought Semerzier won). I know he wasn’t in the corner for Nate, and Okami is a tough matchup for anyone, but that style is really starting to be annoying.
I agree that Greg Jackson has been giving some bad advice lately. Especially in the close rounds, what the corner should be telling the fighter is:
“Round was close. Could have gone either way.” That way fighters don’t assume they are winning when they are not.
Yushin Okami easily won all 3 rounds. Marquardt was far too timid and got tossed around.
I don’t think the card was as bad as some people are trying to say. It wasn’t anything great, but besides the main event it was entertaining.
What the card did suffer from is that besides Okami/Marquardt, none of the fights had any sort of meaning what-so-ever.
“Yushin Okami easily won all 3 rounds. Marquardt was far too timid and got tossed around.”
Agree to disagree. I didn’t see anything from Okami in that round that wouldve given him a win. I still have it on dvr so ill rewatch.
Rewatched and I still think Marquard won the second easily. They pretty much canceled each other out on the feet with Okami landing a little more, controlling the range well, but Nate landed the two best shots of the round at the end. All takedowns by Okami were stopped in the second and at one point Nate reversed and slammed him. Okami spent the majority of this round hugging Nate against the cage.
I definately feel the Okami win is warranted, but I think the second was actually the most clear-cut round out of the fight.
So the boxing show came across okay on TV? I was there from 4 PM on and was so freaking tired and hungry that I was not having the greatest time of my life. The $5 pretzel that I got wasn’t enough to tide me over and I was way worn out by the time the last three fights were going.
I guess i’m in the minority then because I could care less about Manny beating up another guy that had no business fighting him in the first place. At least the UFC had fights I actually wanted to see and I didn’t have to pay 50 bucks to see a guy get outclassed for 12 rounds.
The ignorance level there is staggering.
Manny is hands down the best boxer on the planet today. Margarito (aside from being a dirtbag and a cheater) is very accomplished. Manny is just that much better.
Watching Manny last night was like watching Mozart write music or Dali paint.
Is point that anyone (or team) that is the best at what they do shouldn’t compete?
I’m glad you enjoyed watching a bunch of mediocre fighters hug each other all night.
Really? What fights? Seriously it was, by far, one of the worst UFCs in a LONG time. There were some nice finishes, but besides a few decent fights (the Sadollah fight was good), it was a VERY mediocre card. Nothing really stood out, aside from maybe the Vemola over Petruzelli TKO win. And we all know when Vemola goes up in competition, he will get wrecked.
And most of the fights were booked with UFC “stars” against European fighters with 60some win percentages. I could have sworn it was a King Of The cage event in Europe. Not a terrible card, but it wasn’t in the realm of “good”. I would have rather watched the Manny Pacquiao fight than UFC 122.
He’s a troll, don’t encourage him.