Squirrel
07-09-2008, 08:15 PM
Tyson wasn't impressed with the lack of punches thrown and taunted Ricco.
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Former UFC heavyweight champ Ricco Rodriguez lost in a split decision Tuesday night as boxing returned to the Las Vegas Hilton.
Rodriguez looks huge. But not in a good way like Kaspars Kambala. Ricco tipped the scales at 270 pounds.
Let’s put it this way, Ricco doesn’t look very suave.
He had Xtreme Couture boxing coach Ron Frazier in his corner and wore a pair of trunks with a Throwdown logo in an odd homage to MMA.
Mike Tyson made fun of the fight.
“Are you going to throw some punches or what?” he asked in round one.
Ricco’s opponent, a guy named Chad Davis from Phoenix, taunted the former UFC champ at the end of the first with a little hip gyration maneuver.
“Come on,” Tyson implored. “Try to hurt each other.”
Nobody got hurt. Well, at least not physically.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/sports/2008/jul/08/tnf-ufc-guy-looses-tyson-not-impressed/
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Evidently not everyone felt that he lost:
Ricco Rodriguez, a former heavyweight champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship fighting out of North Hollywood, CA, lost his second professional boxing match to fellow heavyweight Chad Davis, who improved to 1-1. It was your typical heavyweight affair; slow-paced, clinching, not a lot of punches thrown and agitation from the crowd. Neither man was knocked down or ever in danger of being stopped, yet after the allotted four rounds, it seemed as though Rodriguez’ higher punch output won him the fight.
That wasn’t the case, though, as two of the three judges scored the bout in favor of Phoenix’s Davis via tallies of 39-37. The other judge had Rodriguez ahead 39-37. Rodriguez, who holds a TKO win over mixed martial arts legend Randy Couture, dropped to 1-1 and walked out of the ring stunned that he lost. Most ringside observers felt he should have won as well.
http://www.secondsout.com/USA/news.cfm?ccs=229&cs=26186
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Former UFC heavyweight champ Ricco Rodriguez lost in a split decision Tuesday night as boxing returned to the Las Vegas Hilton.
Rodriguez looks huge. But not in a good way like Kaspars Kambala. Ricco tipped the scales at 270 pounds.
Let’s put it this way, Ricco doesn’t look very suave.
He had Xtreme Couture boxing coach Ron Frazier in his corner and wore a pair of trunks with a Throwdown logo in an odd homage to MMA.
Mike Tyson made fun of the fight.
“Are you going to throw some punches or what?” he asked in round one.
Ricco’s opponent, a guy named Chad Davis from Phoenix, taunted the former UFC champ at the end of the first with a little hip gyration maneuver.
“Come on,” Tyson implored. “Try to hurt each other.”
Nobody got hurt. Well, at least not physically.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/sports/2008/jul/08/tnf-ufc-guy-looses-tyson-not-impressed/
__________________________________________________ ____________
Evidently not everyone felt that he lost:
Ricco Rodriguez, a former heavyweight champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship fighting out of North Hollywood, CA, lost his second professional boxing match to fellow heavyweight Chad Davis, who improved to 1-1. It was your typical heavyweight affair; slow-paced, clinching, not a lot of punches thrown and agitation from the crowd. Neither man was knocked down or ever in danger of being stopped, yet after the allotted four rounds, it seemed as though Rodriguez’ higher punch output won him the fight.
That wasn’t the case, though, as two of the three judges scored the bout in favor of Phoenix’s Davis via tallies of 39-37. The other judge had Rodriguez ahead 39-37. Rodriguez, who holds a TKO win over mixed martial arts legend Randy Couture, dropped to 1-1 and walked out of the ring stunned that he lost. Most ringside observers felt he should have won as well.
http://www.secondsout.com/USA/news.cfm?ccs=229&cs=26186