I missed it just got home only caught the last round. I caught the end of this HBO card also and couldnt believe Foreman and Larry Merchant doing the commentating
yeah he looks like shit. probably hurt his right arm/shoulder around the 3rd, so I give him credit fighting mostly one arm but still, not looking good.
They should make Soto-karass vs Keith Thurman next.
I'm guess karass gets the KO of the night bonus but I heard Oscar is giving both omar figueroa and Nihito Arakawa bonuses too just because it was such an awesome fight. Nicely done.
I don't know how many times GB has done it but this event was "Knock out Kings II" ,.the last knock out kings event if I remember correctly was Canelo vs Lopez which GB had a KO bonus.
This is something boxing promoters used to do way back in the day but stopped for whatever reason, I think Don King did something similar for his legendary stacked cards.
I know Oscar is buddy buddy with Dana White and admires some of his business models and I believe Oscar said he wanted to start doing something similar. Would be nice if they did it for all of their cards not just "knockout kings"...maybe they will.
Kinda feel bad for berto. Dude did show some heart fighting with one arm and to get KOd like that last round. Tough loss. His eyes were getting swollen like against Guerrero. I think he should probably retire, he just doesn't look good anymore, even though he was always overrated. He just fights stupid and always finds away to get in trouble. Defense and footwork really bad.
Btw, The official judges had it a draw going into the 12th with one judge having Berto ahead. Good thing it was stopped or the Haymon robbery would have occured.
The only reason Berto got all the hype is b/c of his body and the hope he would fill the void created after Judahs loss to Tzu. He had that similar quick uppercut delivery as Judah. They both were big fight losers. Line em up w/ Rocky Juarez