If you think the scatterbrained majority draw decision in the Bernard Hopkins-Jean Pscal WBC light heavyweight title bout in Canada Saturday night really bites, you may have missed a fight that literally had a vampire style chomping.
IBF “minimosca” (junior flyweight to you gringos) champ Luis Lizarte, the hometown hero in Mar del Plata, Argentina, defended his title belt against former champion Ulises Solis of Mexico.
In the third round of the bout (00:23:59 on this Youtube video), the two fighters got in close to each other and the Argentinian boxer took the opportunity to chomp down on Solis’ neck as though he was trying out for a role on the “Twilight Vampire” programs.
I mean, you can see the neck “noshing” clearly on the video and it brought back sick memories of how a frusrated Mike Tyson, unable to do much in his 1997 heavyweight title bout rematch in Las Vegas, resorted to chomping down and removing part of Evander Holyfield’s ear.
“We’ve got the video in front of IBF president Daryl J. Peoples and we have made an official protest of the ineptitude of the officiating and the flagrant and continual fouling in the fight,” Sean “Mister X’ Gibbons said on behalf of Solis’ promoter, Fernando Beltran.
(A phone call to Peoples at his IBF New jersey office and also to his mobile number was not immediately returned.)
The loser summed it up more succinctly, Solis saying:
“I was mugged! I won the championship.”
The scores made for a weird split decision retention of the crown for Hungry Man Lizarte.
After some prefight arguments over the selectio of the three judges and the referee, John Madfis and Ricahrd Green of the United States were tabbed as judges while Hector Afu was the third selection.
Max Parker, a non-Spanish speaking ref from Florida, was given the referee assignment.
Another sensible move which Parker to have to get his admonitions to Lizaret translated by the local fighter’s cornermen.
I wonder if their translations were something like, “The ref says you get two more bites, then you’re out?”
Judge Green (Florida) and Afu (Panama) saw it 113-113 while Madfis, an experienced judge out of Boston, tabbed it 117-109 for the Mexican.
Solis is now 32-2-3, 21 KOs, while Lizarte is 48-9-1, 18 KOs.
Solis is 29 years old and was stopped in 11 rounds by “Hawaiian Punch” Brian Viloria at Arenata Coliseum in Manila on April 19, 2009. Competent third man in the ring on that night was Philipinnes based international ref Bruce “Highland Fling” McTavish.
After 57 pro bouts, Lizarte knows better than to snack on a foe’s flesh. Maybe he thought it was one of those “All You Can Eat” promotions.
Again, the neck bite occurs at 00:23.59 on the video.
That’s a crucial difference between Argentinean boxing and the sport in Canada. The scoring is lousy and favors the home fighter in both but, in Canada, there’s no free buffet.
Chomp, I guess they can call the rematch something like “Second Bite.”
