d it was the best fight that you will never see.Why? Because it was on Showtime.
Showtime has just 15.5 subscribers compared to the 29 million on top pay cable dog HBO and seems to be in a battle for any attention from anyone.
The Showtime boxing department does a great job in making great fights on a far smaller budget than their competition at "Home Box"(as my grandfather always called it).
For example, all 3 of the Vasquez-Marquez trilogy and both great Jose Luis Castillo-Diego Corrales fights were Showtime fights.
In many ways, the boxing fan gets better fights on Showtime than HBO, which often goes for "Superstar vs overmatched opponent shows" such as May's upcoming Oscar De La Hoya-Steve Forbes show and sends many competitive fights that fans want to see to their Pay per View arm,s
But, in full disclosure, I am an HBO subscriber, not Showtime.
HBO has the wonderful sports documentaries, which are second to none, Boxing and Bill Maher, while Showtime comes up lacking in that department.
Some episodes of Showtime's Penn and Teller's "Bullshit" have been drop-dead hilarious, but others have been kinda pedestrian.
Anyway enough about the battle for pay cable hearts.
The fight was the third in the series that had seen both men score knockout wins over the other and the third might have been the best of the bunch.
Why?
Because this one gave us a full 12 rounds of action!
Marquez scored the fights only knockdown in Round 5 until the final round, where a controversial call changed the result of the fight.
A huge 12th round for Vasquez drove a dizzied Marquez reeling into the corner late in the round, but the challenger did not go down, but the referee scored a knockdown for Vasquez as the judgment call was that he would have gone down if the ropes had not held him up.
This call combined with an 11th round deduction for Marquez for a low blow that I thought was a belt line shot made the difference in the decision.
The judge that scored the fight Marquez saw it 114-111, while one Vasquez judge saw the fight the same way for Vasquez, but the other Vasquez judge scored 113-112.
So if one of those two calls are not made, we have a draw and if neither are made, Marquez is the split decision winner.
We saw it 113-112 for Marquez.
Considering the fights end and the action in it, I would love to see a 4th fight after a tuneup or two, maybe in the fall 08 or winter 09.
If you get the chance-see this fight!
Bullpen notes
Oil jumped to an adjusted record of 103 dollars per barrel today against the US dollar.
Several different theories are out there ranging from settling to the $
65-70 range due to rising supply and falling demand to the continued rise to as high as a $120 price as overseas investors continue to flow in.As a traveler, here is hoping for the former!
I don't see the baseball trip being affected, but it could affect other trips down the road.
But it looks like Americans are starting to strike back as gas usage has dropped 1.1% in the last six weeks.
This is the biggest such drop since 1980.
Easy for me to say, but this is what is needed to show the oil companies that there is a limit that they can push these things.
Tom Gorzelanny pitched his inning and his shoulder did not separate from his body, so that is a good sign, but I am still hoping the Pirates will be cautious with the lefty in Bradenton.
After all, this is Pirates' luck!
Until next time
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Boxing-Mark Terrill-AP Photo
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