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

To: SmoothSail who wrote (3760)	5/12/2001 9:46:57 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10489

I am going to try to do a blow by blow...I am not as good as LPS5, but since he is at the fight, so he ain't going to be much good. Hopefully Mark will join in.

To: SmoothSail who wrote (3760)	5/12/2001 10:15:41 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 10489

Joppy v Trinidad: final thoughts May 12, 2001 – By Paul Upham: With all the media hype surrounding Felix “Tito” Trinidad this week, it is easy to forget that William Joppy is the defending WBA middleweight champion in this fight. No disrespect to Joppy, but Tito is the star and is favoured to win in front of a large crowd at Madison Square Garden, which will again confirm its place in as a big time boxing venue in the United States after some years in the wilderness. In so many ways Felix Trinidad’s career has resembled an old steam engine slowly building up momentum. For six years he toiled as a world champion in obscurity while his promoter Don King made millions with other big name fighters. The Puerto Rican racked up fifteen defences of his IBF welterweight title and only registered on many casual boxing fans radar scopes in 1999 when he beat Pernell Whitaker in February and Oscar De La Hoya in September. It has taken the Trinidad locomotive a long time to get going, just like so many of his fights where he has started out slowly but finished stronger than any other fighter in the game. Now he is at full steam, and is an impressive sight as his confidence has grown and the speed of which he takes larger steps forward and upward increases. Trinidad does the basics better than most and appears to have an exceptional focus for getting the job done. They come straight at him, back-pedal and even knock him down but he remains determined. No matter what his opponent does, Trinidad finds a way to win. He trains in his home country away from the glare of the mainstream boxing media and has been brilliantly managed and trained by father Felix Senior. Since his unimpressive point’s victory over De La Hoya, Trinidad has benefited from the jump up in weight and has logged three impressive wins over David Reid, Mamadou Thiam and Fernando Vargas at junior middleweight. Rather than looking back at De La Hoya, Shane Mosley, Vargas and Reid, Tito is looking forward to Joppy, Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones. He is on the verge of true greatness and has been overlooked by many throughout his career, but perhaps he will now confirm what many have suspected to his true weight of 160lbs. Bernard Hopkins talked this week of how Trinidad had been punishing himself to make welterweight and that the Puerto Rican had always been a middleweight. Talk of Joppy being the bigger man is very hollow, particularly after the weigh-in which saw Trinidad tip the scales at 159.25 lbs. to Joppy’s 158.75 lbs. Trinidad may be the one moving up, but he’ll be looking down a little to Joppy who is shorter. For those who said that a good big man will always beat a better smaller man, they will have to apply their theory to another fight as Trinidad is no small man here. Joppy has been a good champion, but he has never faced someone as good as Trinidad. William Joppy has his chance to make his own mark on the sport, but Trinidad has a chance at greatness. The pick here is a Trinidad knockout win in the sixth round. Joppy has predicted he will come straight at the Puerto Rican, but we have been fooled before by pre-fight tactical boasts, most recently when the Mexican Marco Antonio Barrera fooled us all by so completely outboxing Prince Naseem Hamed when most of us expected him to attack on the inside. If Joppy does attack Trinidad from the outset, it may be his best chance of winning as Trinidad has always been a slow starter. But you are only as good as your last performance and we must remember that it was Vargas who visited the canvas in round one of his fight with Trinidad last December. Maybe Joppy is thinking he has to take advantage early as he is unlikely to believe that he will be able to win a close decision at The Garden in front of what will be a parochial Puerto Rican crowd. But it is more likely that a plan of attack will open the door for Trinidad to register an early knockout and move on to the fight for the undisputed crown in September with Bernard Hopkins. secondsout.com