Monday, July 10, 2006

Former welterweight boxing champing is back (Cory Spinks)


In the old days of 15-round title fights, Roman Karmazin would no doubt have overpowered Cory Spinks in what we used to call the championship rounds. Those days are gone. The championship rounds are now 10 to 12, not 13 to 15, and Spinks survived the Russian’s late rush to capture the junior middleweight title on a very close but not really debatable majority decision.

The fact is that Karmazin started too late. It took him too long to figure out Spinks’s crafty, clever southpaw style. By the time Karmazin had started to close the gap and land his punches. too many rounds had slipped away.

I thought that Spinks boxed beautifully in the early rounds and the former welterweight champion did look stronger and seemed to be punching with much authority at 154 pounds, just as his trainer, Kevin Cunningham, had said he would.
Trainer Kevin was noy holding any punchs when it came to vocals during corner pits.

Spinks would almost always come right back with a counter puch or even combo's which in turn had Karmazin hesitant to throw those hands.

Keep a look-out for a rematch. whick i think Spinks will be well prepaird even more so then this fight.


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