Unless and until we come up with a quicker, slicker name for this new semi-regular feature on both my Examiner.com page and on Boxingconfidential, we’re calling it “Two Pounds of Ring Wisdom.”
The words and thoughts that follow belong to one of the higher wattage lights in the boxing library Stevie “Two Pound” Forbes, the 33 year old welterweight contender who is loved by many, feared by some and truly respected by all.
Not only has Forbes given as good as he has gotten in going 12 rounds the legendary Oscar de la Hoya, he has also gone the limit with undefeated 147 pound champ Andre Berto.
Forbes is so respected for his ring acumen and versatility that he is highly regarded as a sparring partner for BOTH Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Now that’s what I call peer group approval and recognition.
Forbes, whose pro log is 34-8 with 10 KOs, will be sharing my editorial spaces with his inside the ring insights and perspectives.
I’m sure you’ll enjoy his musings.
Forbes kicks this new gig off with his analysis of Saturday night’s WBA junior middleweight title defense by champ Yuri Foreman against Puerto Rican icon Miguel Cuello at Yankee Stadium (HBO):
TWO POUNDS OF RING WISDOM BY STEVIE FORBES
If there ever was a case of contrasting styles, ladies and gentlemen this is it.
In one fighter (Cotto) you have a guy that was considered to be the Terminator not so long ago.
In the other one(Foreman) you may as well call him the Exterminator or the Orkin man, because he was the guy who beat the guy who beat the once known Terminator in Cotto. Meaning Foreman beat Daniel Santos who beat Margarito who happen to give Cotto his first defeat.
(Follow me?)
This is hard to pick honestly, simply because if Cotto can’t hurt the bigger wheels in motion Foreman, than it could be a long night. I say this because most guys who are not known to be big punchers, have been blessed with a nice ability to take a punch and to have a pretty good aray of boxing knowledge not to mention toughness.
This I know from personal experience.
Also you gotta ask will the beating Cotto received from Margarito and Pacquaio bother Cotto?
Or will the pride of puerto Rico simply shake those losses off as been beaten by two men who didn’t play fair?
If I was a betting man I’d bet on the fight going 12 rounds, but for who wins?
It’s hard to say.
Old Man Marley informs me the Pittsburgh Pirates used to play at cozy Forbes Field.
I’m no relation, as far as I know, to whoever that Forbes was but the ballpark had an outfield fence and, for Foreman and Cotto, that is where I remain…
On the fence…
I promise, fight fans, not to straddle the fence when Floyd and Manny lock horns…
