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Luvmykitties
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01-02-2004

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 6:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Serio has a cut over his left eye by the end of round one.

Peter is fighting very aggresively and may tire out before 7 rounds.

Luvmykitties
Member

01-02-2004

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 6:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
wow - Peter continued punching at Sergio after the bell rang for the end of round 2.


Commercial break.

Back after 3rd round started. Announcer said that Peter tried apologizing, but Sergio wasn't having it.

Luvmykitties
Member

01-02-2004

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 6:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
end of round 3 - another commercial break

I can't tell who's winning each round, and I haven't heard Sugar Ray or Sly saying.

They're both fighting hard, and it's definitely close.

Start of round 4...

Luvmykitties
Member

01-02-2004

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 6:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
end of round 4 - Peter looked like he was taking a beating. Sergio may have won that round.

I think they are both starting to look tired.

Luvmykitties
Member

01-02-2004

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 6:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
sorry - I can't tell who's winning. They're both landing punches and it's a great fight.

Sly & Sugar Ray are loving this fight and keep saying they want to see a rematch. They're talking about the possibilities of this fight being a draw.

7th and final round

fyi - crowd has been rooting for Sergio

Essence
Member

01-12-2002

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 6:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This fight was absolutely wonderful (and I'm not a boxing fan). Wow!!!

Luvmykitties
Member

01-02-2004

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 6:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
7th round over. I think Sergio won.

Commercial break.

Waiting for results

It's impressive that Sergio fought so well with that gash over his left eye for pretty much the whole fight.

Luvmykitties
Member

01-02-2004

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 6:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Winner is....

69-64
68-65
70-63



Sergio "The Latin Snake" is the winner of the million dollars!

Luvmykitties
Member

01-02-2004

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 6:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
They also added a Tacoma truck to the prize (wasn't Sergio the one that got it during the series?)

Also he will be on the cover of Ring magazine.

Luvmykitties
Member

01-02-2004

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 6:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
They asked Sergio if he'd do a rematch and he said yes.
Alfonso congratulated him and said he hopes that Sergio will give him a chance as well for the belt.

The announcer said that we will see another fight, and to keep checking the Yahoo website for details.

So I guess The Contender won't be a series anymore - but they will hold Championship bouts for "The Contender" belt?

Curlyq
Member

07-10-2002

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 7:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Those were two great fights. Perhaps since they're still under contract with Burnett, they'll continue to have them fight for more Yahoo online events like today.

I'd sure like to know what was being said between Manfredo, Sr. and Sergio that got Sergio so fired up. Too bad the father wasn't wearing a microphone this time. Both Jesse's daughter and Peter's daughter looked like they were pretty upset, poor kids. Jesse's daughter cried through his fight and Peter's kept her face covered like she didn't want to see.

It was funny watching these fights without the slow motion and sound effects to emphasize the key moments. Without the editing it looked like a lot of hugging occasionally interrupted by punches. It was still good to see what these fights are really like in real time (for people like me who never watch boxing). It was also interesting that there were so many female-oriented commercials during the breaks. I still wonder if the majority of viewers are women.

Makays
Member

07-12-2001

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 9:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I was rooting for Peter.....I just didn't like Sergio's cocky attitude. Guess he earned that tude, as he won.
I was a little tired of all the hugging.

I sure wish that this show had gone over bigger then it did. I enjoyed it immensely.
Great, great show!

Chewpito
Member

01-04-2004

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 11:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i hate fighting, but i really got hooked on this show, i was totally glued to tonights show, and i never would have thought so...i loved it...

Max
Member

08-12-2000

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 1:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Great matches today and I'm so happy with the results!

Saddest moment for me: When Jesse's daughter was crying and her mom plunked her down on the floor so she could get up and holler something at Jesse. Poor kid looked very scared and upset and mom acted like she was just in the way. :-(

Happiest moment: Sergio winning and going out of the ring to say something to his mother about the victory while the announcer said something about how she will never have to work gain. :-) (Not that I believe that 'never work again' part -- I know how many people put their hand into the wallets of good fighters.)

Lamest promotional moment (okay two of them): Once before the fight when they were in one of the fighter's dressing rooms, the camera zoomed out so that the Gatorade bottles in the foreground could be seen better. Second one at the end when the announcer was giving website addresses for the auction and Contender updates -- none of the addresses he gave were correct. I'm not sure who is lamer, the people who wrote the cue cards for him who couldn't get the URL correct or the web folks who weren't smart enough to register alias domain names for the shortened versions printed on the cue cards.

Oh, and one last one -- on the Contender website, there's a link to sign up to receive updates about future events, but it doesn't work!

Anyway, all in all, this was a great boxing day for me and I will miss this show. I definitely will be following boxing more closely again -- a habit I had fallen out of -- because of a renewed interest sparked by this show. :-)

Luvmykitties
Member

01-02-2004

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 7:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Max, I was able to sign up for the Yahoo alert for future updates. Do you have a Yahoo account? It prompted me to login to my Yahoo account.

I didn't pay attention to the URL they gave out on the show because I have it bookmarked. But for anyone that doesn't already have it, here it is: http://contender.tv.yahoo.com

Curlyq - you made an interesting point about the commercials being female targeted. I wasn't paying attention to them.
I wonder if The Contender audience turned out to be mostly women. It would make sense. I can't tell gender by the screen names here, but I would assume the majority are female. Assuming most are female; look how many of us have posted that we never watch boxing, but got hooked on this show! I think because it was a reality show, and it also focused heavily on the personal lives of the fighters more than just boxing. And the fights themselves were severly edited, so it was really just a small portion of the show.

I'm not sure what Sly set out to achieve. I noticed a few comments here from people who didn't enjoy the live fight as much. So if he was looking to gain Professional Boxing viewership, it may not have been achieved. If it was to give boxing more exposure in the fight to get it better regulated - well it will be nice if that is achieved.

Personally, I liked the live fights better. I had watched a few pay-per-view Heavyweight fights years ago (Tyson, Holyfield) and compared to those 15 round fights - these Middleweight 5/7 round fights were action packed!
Plus getting to know these fighters, made me feel more interested in the fights.

But I'm making a lot of assumptions. It would be interesting for any existing boxing fans to post here and chime in on how they felt about the show.


Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 7:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Never thought that the boxer's young children should be allowed to watch these matches and last night rekindled that thought.

Jesse's daughter was crying every time we saw her on camera. Not only was this sad to see but it took away from the actual match.

The cameras should be on the boxers not the family members.

I agree with the decisions in both matches.

That announcer needs to go.

Jimmer
Member

08-30-2000

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 7:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    

quote:

Never thought that the boxer's young children should be allowed to watch these matches and last night rekindled that thought.

Jesse's daughter was crying every time we saw her on camera. Not only was this sad to see but it took away from the actual match.



That is precisely why I would not watch this show (and I am a boxing fan). It’s just not something that I want to see.

It’s not totally related but it reminds me of a documentary on wrestling a while back, which showed one wrestler’s little girl who was absolutely distraught at ringside over what was happening. And this was with her full knowledge that it was fake and that the man wrestling her Dad was actually a very good friend.

It just makes it painful to watch.

Sassynegal
Member

01-21-2005

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 8:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree the saddest moment was seeing Jesse's daughter cry and his wife oblivious to it. My hubby made a comment in the last round when they showed her face - uh oh she looks angry (Jesse's wife), she's thinking Damn now I have to get a job again. I laughed so hard - she just didnt' seem as supportive as Peter's wife.

I was happy with the outcome and would have been no matter who won. Sergio earned it though and I have to say I think he needed the $$ the most and he'll do good with it for his family. I am sure we'll see them both again soon!



Hootyhoot
Member

12-18-2001

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 8:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sergio will be on Regis & Kelly on Thursday morning.

Bec21969
Member

09-20-2003

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 8:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have not liked Jesse's wife from the very beginning. what in the world was up with the angel outfits and other over the top things on the kids.... yikes. let alone her attire. obvioiusly she thought she looked sexy or something. I thought it just made her look trashy and completely unflattering.

Last night when that baby girl was crying, obviously scared and needed to be held - daddy fighting and all the noise must have been more than children of her age could handle... I could hardly believe how she shoved her aside - like a bother.

I have read many posts on here talking about how she was not as supportive as Peter's wife, etc..... I do not think that Jesse and his wife are that close at all. Throughout the entire season, the other boxers talked about their spouses in such a loving and devoted nature and Jesse did not ever mention her at all.... not that I can recall. I am not sure if anyone else noticed, but last night after the fight when she was in the ring right before they announced the winner, she touched him and it was like she was acid on his skin. He brushed her off right away.



Crzndeb
Member

07-26-2004

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 9:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Not Jesse's wife....long time girlfriend and mother of his children....I wanted to uppercut her when she threw that baby down.....But, she looks a whole lot bigger than me.

Curlyq
Member

07-10-2002

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 9:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I remember George Foreman offered to marry them. Jesse said "If it's not broke, don't fix it." Apparently he felt enough for her to have not one but two children with her, so I won't judge the state of their relationship. Maybe he's just phobic about marriage in general, or maybe neither one wants to do it.

I had noticed in previous fights that if you're having trouble figuring out who's winning (as I sometimes was), you could find out by looking at her expression. She was a good barometer for how the judging would go.

I don't know why they still had the children ringside after all the criticism the show received about this in the beginning. With all the months they had between the show's premiere and yesterday's fights, they'd had plenty of time to realize this was not playing well with the viewers.

I don't know that this show made me want to watch boxing in the future, but it did succeed in showing that fighters don't always fit the stereotype of poor, uneducated thugs who couldn't find a safer way to make a living. It also showed their humanity.

Hootyhoot
Member

12-18-2001

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 10:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just watched the video of the Ishe/Anthony fight. Whew. I never could quite like Ishe, but Anthony gave me the creeps with his continuous crowing about being the best dad. I thought Ishe's wife looked reallly classy last night in her white blazer jacket. If she likes Ishe (and she does seem to!), perhaps I'll give him a point or two for that!

Marysafan
Member

08-07-2000

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 11:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I am onboard with everyone else regarding the little ones at the fight. The noise alone must have been frightening to one so young, and to be cast aside without a care even more so.

I think that it was because of Jesse's family or his relationship with them, that I favored Sergio in the fight. Sergio's love and concern for his mother was real and genuine. He never wavered. I admired him for that. I was especially moved when he was brought to tears talking about how much he loved her, but how he never told her. Just like so many young men. The thought is there, it's just not expressed well if at all. I am glad that he finally found a way to show her.

Hootyhoot
Member

12-18-2001

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 4:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think The Contender finale is being repeated tonight, 8 to 10 p.m. on CNBC. Here's your second chance if you missed it.