Why was Jirov only able to turn it on in the final rounds? Was he too tired? Did Mesi's weight advantage take its toll on him, or was Mesi boxing well? What are your opinions?
"Mesi is a big dude and his punches were hurting Jirov causing him to retreat."
Homie nailed it.
I think Jirov realized that he better not slug it out. He MAY have thought if this dude can punch like that because he's a heavy, maybe his chin is strong also.
He may have thought he didn't have the punch for the heavies.
The first kockdown in the penultimate round proved this worng, so he came out in the last BLAZING.
That's why I disagree w/ Mesi saying "No Rematch". I think Jirov would start the fight with this confidence.
Probably won't happen.
Jirov was boxing and moving and still taking some major punishment early and mid/late fight. Had Jirov opted to try get to Mesi earlier he may have gotten stopped. He had a good gameplan as far as taking Mesi into deep water but he couldn't finish the fight.
Because Mesi wasn't tired.
Jirov was tentaive because he felt Mesi's power early and knew if he exchanged with him he would be KO'd.
If you notice, Mesi really started really unloading and connecting on Jirov in the (if i remember correctly) 7th and 8th....Mesi started looking tired as early as the 6th. Once he was unloading in those rounds, he wasn't really hurting Jirov because he was so tired, Jirov realized this and started to pressure.
Homie, Nat and Eddy have combined for a flying dropkick off the top rope to KO the correct..
I dont think Jirov should have gotten the JD. I actually picked Jirov to win and had it gone another 2rds. I think he would have. However, he shouldn't have gotten the JD for winning 3 rnds. All of the judges saw it the same way as well. I think Mesi is highly overrated but he clearly won that fight.
Hammer has KO'd the correct...
Except he loses points for making me think he was talking about Jack Daniels at first.....
*makes a quick trip to the liquor cabinet*
Yeah, Mesi definitely won.
Jirov with 2 more rounds... actually, just another 30 to 45
seconds.
I hear what you're saying Gator cuz if the fight went another 30 secs Jirov wins, but the rules are the rules and the scoring is what it is...this wouldn't be the first time this goes against someone...
just testing something...
Blue name it is!
Jirov would have won it if it was 12 rounds.
That's still the only fight I can recall where a guy got floored three times and won a decision.
I think Jirov played it cool early and wanted to do what Barrett did. He just got started late, IMO.
It'll be interesting to see where both guys go from here. Jirov should get big heavyweight fights off his showing, and maybe Mesi can dig up Frankie Swindell.