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Pastimes : Boxing: The Sweet Science -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LPS5 who wrote (536)	8/13/2000 3:10:36 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 10489

in the ninth round, holyfield began to dig left hands to ruiz's body. i saw at least four good hard shots under ruiz's right elbow. my thought was that if holyfield maintained that attack, ruiz would soon fold up. even holyfield's corner commented between rounds to evander that "every time you hit him to the body he cries like a baby". everything about ruiz's movement in the ring appeared very predictable to me. he always moved his head in the same circular pattern and every time he threw a jab to holyfield's body (a dangerous punch when repeated as often as ruiz did it) he was leaving his head hanging out there for a right hand. when you think back, either fighter, had they done just a little more, could have forced a different outcome. judge's crooked decision aside, it was as though each fighter was handing it to the other guy... here, you take it, i don't want it, you take it. holyfield's state of denial is monumental, btw. you'd think the man could at least cop to just a teeny little bit of luck (if not outright miraculous good fortune) in his last several winning decisions. instead, he acts as if the judges might reverse their stinkeroo decisions if he admitted to catching a break.