Stiverne VS Wilder.

The fight was an okay fight, not great by any means, but better than any of the K bro’s fights. Wild showed he can fight a bit, but he also showed his inexperience when he tried to close the show. The times when he had Stiv in trouble and he went for the KO he looked like an amateur in the way he would flail away with arm punches, no snap or turning of the wrist, nor did he placed his punches when he needed to..The one good thing for Wild was going the 12 rounds without getting winded. He has a good right hand, but he needs to learn how feint with the left to set up the right hand…I hope he hold the title for a bit….As for Stiv, I think it’s time for him to hang up the gloves, he is a slow 36 years old fighter, and he can’t expect to get any better, but I expect that he will hang in there for a few more paydays, like maybe a K fight.

One Round or Ten Rounds, What’s the Difference?

                                               By KiKi

In the early 1980’s Jimmy Montoya had a fighter fighting the main event as an “opponent” at the Olympic Auditorium in The City of Angels. The fighter whom name is long forgotten was fighting for a guaranteed purse of $2,500.00 for the ten round fight.

The bell sounded for the first round and a few blows were thrown in the first minute and a half. Around the second minute mark Jimmy’s fighter took a decent punch to the chin, but it was no knockdown punch, but nevertheless Jimmy’s fighter hit the canvas.

With his fighter lying on the canvas Jimmy started yelling at him to get up, but all Jimmy got from the fighter was a wink and a nod. When the referee reached the count of ten the-fighter jumped to his feet.

Once they were down in the catacombs, as the Olympic Auditorium dressing rooms were known, Jimmy asked his fighter “Why didn’t you get up?” The fighter replied with a question to Jimmy whom he called Pappy “how much am I getting paid for the fight, Pappy?”  “You know you’re getting twenty five hundred dollars” Jimmy answered him. “Right, twenty five hundred if I go one round or ten rounds, right? So what’s the difference other than taking less of a beating if I go one or ten round? None!?” “You got a point there son, let’s go to the box office and cash your check so I can get my one third”