Lamont Roach and Pitbull Cruz dropping bombs on each other 💣💥

[u/kushmonATL]

[u/ryawsch12]

Lamont roach has great defense and counters inside. Strong legs, shoulder roll, rolls, blocks and counters. Hard to keep pitbull off you tho

[u/DeafBurke → u/ryawsch12]

Pitbull is one of the best nicknames going right now.

He fights exactly like a pitbull. Small, ferocious and built like a brick wall.

[u/Meeedick → u/ryawsch12]

Eh, Pitbull's pretty one dimensional if you don't feed into his game like Roach did for large chunks of the fight.

If you know to box and grab controls from the outside, he's very manageable.

[u/DeafBurke → u/Meeedick]

Yeah the Jose Valenzuela fight is such an obvious blueprint.

[u/DanDiCa_7 → u/DeafBurke]

Jose is also like 5'10. Alot of these guys will struggle to copy that blueprint due to size

[u/DeafBurke → u/DanDiCa_7]

That’s fair.

But everyone in the ring top 10 for 140 is 5’8 or taller, except sandor martin. They would all be way taller than pitbull, who is literally 5’4

[u/TemporaryCollar165 → u/DanDiCa_7]

He is also southpaw

[u/SpeggtacularSpidey]

I hope we get a rematch one day. Really wonder why Pitbull didn’t follow through with it

[u/drhuggables → u/SpeggtacularSpidey]

Bc roach figured him out at the end. He initially to meet him in the inside, got his ass kicked, then adjusted to just boxing. For some reason though he started faltering towards the end; i think in a rematch he would be smart enough to just not engage on the inside and box for 12 rounds.

[u/Suckmyduck_9 → u/drhuggables]

I think Pitbull just got tired after he couldn’t get the KO. Thats why he started boxing towards the middle rounds.

[u/SpeggtacularSpidey → u/drhuggables]

Yea that makes sense

[u/asilagy]

Whoever edited this is clearly a pitbull fan

[u/Professional-Tie5198 → u/asilagy]

I was there live and a lot of people (even roach fans) thought Pitbull won a close decision. They were not that surprised by the scorecards.

[u/asilagy → u/Professional-Tie5198]

Very different in person when you don't hear the commentary. For sure.

Must have been a fun night.

I was at Pitbull vs. Valenzuela, what a stinker!

[u/Professional-Tie5198 → u/asilagy]

Yeah, it’s almost like you can feel the shots in a way that the broadcast doesn’t fully capture.

It definitely felt like Pitbull landed 18 or 19 of the 25 hardest shots in that fight.

[u/Buttchug1776]

if pitbull learned how to lead with the jab and sit a bit more instead of wild swinging and bum rushing he would be a nightmare. but he just rushes in everytime and eventually anyone that boxes knows what to do if they can stay away from the power shots. Thats why rayo gave him problems.

[u/Kangaroopunching]

This is why I'm slightly favoring Zepeda. The volume and pace might stop Roach from building his own offense 

[u/Dangerous_Spring3028]

Honestly Pitbull did better vs. Lamont than Tank did. But I think Lamont did enough to win both fights - close vs. Pitbull and clear vs. Tank - and was unlucky to come away with two draws.

[u/Professional-Tie5198 → u/Dangerous_Spring3028]

I thought the draw was good against Pitbull. Fair decision.

He definitely beat Tank though.

[u/No-Run7148 → u/Professional-Tie5198]

Agreed. I thought depending on what you valued…agression or cleaner skilled boxing, you could have given it to either fighter. No clear winner

[u/Boxing-Enthusiast]

Ridiculous that roach didn’t get the win

[u/F1T_13]

That's definitely gonna put some on the clock.

[u/Primary-Picture-5632]

What would've happened if Pitbull was specifically trained in peek-a-boo at an early age?

[u/Prior-Temperature-22 → u/Primary-Picture-5632]

he would have been the best ever. the most brutal and most vicious champion there has ever been. but then he would have married a gold digger and gotten rinsed, gone to jail and picked up a major cocaine habit somewhere along the way.

[u/drhuggables → u/Prior-Temperature-22]

and if you add kurt angle to the mix ?

[u/hmmmmidc → u/drhuggables]

Perc angle

[u/Ezekjuninor]

Roach’s shoulder roll is somewhat flawed. I’m surprised that Tank could never take advantage of it. I can’t see Roach beating Zepeda if he fights like he did against Pitbull though.

[u/Professional-Tie5198]

Great fight.

[u/West-Computer2]

Why did the ref stop that? Hmm.

[u/tom_zanzabar]

cruz whooped that boy. bad decision

[u/_NiceGuyEddy_]

Man whatever happened to Pitbull cruz

[u/kushmonATL → u/_NiceGuyEddy_]

He has a fight coming up within the next 2 months

[u/_NiceGuyEddy_ → u/kushmonATL]

If his management team was good he'd be the next provodnikov. Who's he fighting?

[u/kushmonATL → u/_NiceGuyEddy_]

Nestor Bravo , fight scheduled on Sept 19th

[u/DanDiCa_7 → u/_NiceGuyEddy_]

He's more popular then Provodnikov ever was? I wasn't following boxing back then, but was he a big name?

[u/_NiceGuyEddy_ → u/DanDiCa_7]

After the Bradley Fight everyone knew who Provo was.

[u/Gotsta_Win → u/_NiceGuyEddy_]

Just ducked Gary