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Originally Posted by a87star
Did anyone watch this tonight? Sechew Powell, who just won an IBF eliminator against Terrance Cauthen, was upset by DeAndre Lattimore via a seventh round KO. Powell started out well but from the fourth round on.....he just looked gassed and Lattimore took advantage and started fighting on the inside which completely changed things. Another upset has been recorded...
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I thought this was a great fight! Very entertaining. Powell seemed upset by the stoppage, but I thought it was entirely appropriate. A big "thumbs up" to the referee for knowing when to step in. Powell was taking far too many big head shots and doing very little to fight back.
He might claim he was playing possum, but I thought the idea of playing possum was to scale back on your own aggression in order to lure the other guy in, not scale back on your own aggression and take numerous punches to the head.
From what the guys in his corner were saying to him, and from the look on his face and his body language between rounds, Powell was just getting out fought. It's that simple.
This fight--including Teddy Atlas' prefight analysis--is a great example of why boxing is such a fascinating sport.
Before the fight Lattimore addressed the general assessment that he was the underdog and that Powell was probably out of his league by saying quietly: "After this fight they gonna be shakin' they heads wondering what happened."
And he truly came through.
What a good fight!