Wood Warrington,Zurdo Joe Smith

Tonight Las Vegas and Sheffield witnessed an interesting boxing spectacle.

Zurdo, after the defeat to Bivol, which saw him downsized, produced good boxing at a weight class, which in our opinion is not congenial to him, but he won. Smith (his rival today) let’s remember that he lost to Bivol on points and to the King in the second round (Zurdo on points with Bivol…) just to give an idea of the quality of boxing and boxers, to highlight the great qualities of great boxers and to talk about good boxers.

The match was a good one; it denoted the merits and faults of these two men, probable champions but not super champions, but athletes who put in the ring qualities such as courage and passion and in any case potential if not former world champions; Zurdo won because he was fresher and because he did fewer fights than Joe. He left us with doubts, we considered him a Top Top, but we were wrong, the defeat with Bivol highlighted important limits.

n Shieffield the champion, WBA featherweight Leigh Wood (28-3, 17 KOs) beat former IBF champion Josh Warrington (31-3-1, 8 KOs) by knockout; it was a knockout match; truly unbelievably beautiful competitively and pugilistically speaking. With Josh leading until a Wood, who has almost got us used to incredible comebacks, in the seventh put in a killer series that included a hook so tremento it shut Josh down

The two embraced each other and that’s nice. Great fight great fight, they are a little less technically than the other champions, but they have heart a decent jaw and produced a show that ignited all the onlookers. Really a good performance Wood really has disproportionate heart; good athletes and great Wood. When you put two Anglo-Saxons in the ring good fights come out, big limits to aspire to top positions in pound for pound but good warriors honour to them, and let’s always remember all those who for love and passion step into the ring.

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