Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-04-30, wild exchanges and spectacular finish: Edwin Rodriguez vs Thomas Williams Jr is one of the best boxing fights of the year 2016 and it gets four stars!Edwin Rodriguez entered this fight with a pro record of 28-1-0 (19 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.15 cruiserweight in the world. He suffered his only loss when he faced Andre Ward in 2013 (=Ward vs Rodriguez), since then he has won four consecutive bouts beating Michael Seals in his last one (4-stars fight Rodriguez vs Seals).
His opponent, Thomas Williams Jr, has a boxing record of 19-1-0 (13 knockouts) and he entered as the No.33 light heavyweight. He lost to Gabriel Campillo in 2014 (=Williams vs Campillo) but then he has won over Michael Gbenga and Umberto Savigne (=Williams Jr vs Savigne). ‘La Bomba’ Rodriguez vs Williams is on the undercard of Victor Ortiz vs Andre Berto 2. Watch the video and rate this fight!
[php]
include(“banner2.php”);
[/php]
Date: 2016-04-30
Where: StubHub Center, Carson, California, USA
Division: light heavyweight (175 lbs, 79.4 kg)
Rodriguez’s previous fight: Edwin Rodriguez vs Michael Seals
Williams’ previous fight: Thomas Williams Jr vs Umberto Savigne
Williams’ next fight: Adonis Stevenson vs Thomas Williams Jr
[php]
include(“banner.php”);
[/php]
Video: (Free embeddable video hosted on Youtube and not uploaded by AllTheBestFights, to report it please visit this link where the video is hosted)
Official highlights
Brutal!
matter of time e rod would get kod he’s too wide with his punches. if he tighter up his workmate alone will win him most fights
Slobberknocker, although I would say it was stopped a little early since the round was coming to a close. Now Williams is supposed to fight our own, Adonis Chickenson at Foxwoods, because Al Haymon know Chickenson is so hated now in Quebec there would be no one in the crowd.
I’ll take Adonis, if he’ll take the fight, haha!
Admittedly I haven’t seen much of Williams, but he didn’t impress me at all here (neither did Rodriquez). They looked like a pair of club fighters.
Rodriguez also looked amateurish against Seals, although it produced one of the best fights of 2015 :) Seen it?
You’re right, Matt. I’d forgotten about that one, and just went back and saw it again. Lots of fun. :-)
The sweet science turned into a slugfest, in which two windmills collided into one another. Entertaining!
I think Rodriguez has an awful defense though, and he lost a shot at our Chicken because of this. I think Williams exhibited slightly better defensive skills, and he’s going to need it against Chicken.
Olivier, Very good comment. It describes precisely the facts
As usual Orange Tango thinks this is a comment exhibition! Well you’re sadly mistaken now back to BOXING please. Thank you
Kamrul Kks, As usual ??? orange tango ??? comment exhibition ???
Be more specific but in English please.
You’re trying to make fun of my English when there isn’t a single mistake! Ok now let’s take a look at your English, let me teach you the basic fundamentals of English you do not use two question marks on a single sentence let alone Three! Also after using a question mark at the end of a sentence you start off with a capital letter on the following sentence. Hope I enlightened you on how the English language should be written. Hope you do not make anymore school boy errors before trying to sound smart but only embarrass yourself.
Kamrul Kks: Thank you for the lesson, if any, but you took profit of my “lesson” too. I saw you corrected some mistake (ur=you’re) from your previous comment. Like a kid you learn quick :-).
Going back to my questions, still you didn’t answer me about the meaning of your previous comment. With all due respect, could you be so kind to tell me about it.
Anyhow, if you are bothersome because the amount of comments I placed in this forum, with some of them directed to my friends here, I feel sorry about you but it is just your problem. As as a newcomer I recommend you to adapt yourself to the way we use to do things here. Thank you.
Correcting mistakes you say?Making things up now to make yourself feel better after you just got put in place while trying to poke fun at someones English, when in fact it was you who needed the English lesson in literature since u lacked the basics! Also u seem to act as if you’re the the first person who discovered this site also you really highlight it and wear it like a badge of honor! I’ve seen it on other comments of yours and really find it funny when you use words like newcomers I too am quite old on this site (2008) and have used a few other profiles before that but to me this isn’t anything to brag about I’d rather brag that my English was better than yours when I cracked a joke about a soda and at your usual dramatic post fight analysis, yet you came back with a comment trying to poke fun at my English when in fact your very comment was full of basic errors. Now the word (ur) is a text acronym for the Internet which is where we are right now so feel free to use it as it isn’t an error.
Kamrul Kks , Please wait a minute!!!. As you should understand, my life doesn’t pass just by sitting in front of my PC doing comments in this forum which are dealing with boxing or sometimes answering/questioning comments from other users. However, I have to admit, as a retiree, that i spent on it a quite bit of time since i enjoy very much the fights, the ambient, and what is more important to me, the communication established among us. For your info, and just to make it clear I’m not competing with the contain and number of comments i’m writing in this forum as you are believing. I watch a fight I do a comment, i see a comment that I like or dislike I reply when i believe it is required. As I said I have available time and may be this is the reason that presently I’m in top of the list by numbers even if you like it or not sorry man! Regarding contain I have to admit that there are many others much betters than mines.
Therefore, I was really surprised with your initial comment and the fact that you are still trying very hard to elude my question about why you called me “Orange Tango” by carrying out a trivial discussion about “pseudo” English lessons . Honestly, it looks like to me you didn’t like it at all or I bother you much doing a comment which wasn’t related strictly to boxing. I’m sorry man but in terms of the friendship we established here I will continuing commenting in the same terms when required.
Regarding “orange tango”, it was not just a cracked joke about soda as you pretended now as per my humble interpretation. Please don’t forget you clearly implied it was a “comment exhibition” and remarked “Well you’re sadly mistaken now back to BOXING please”.
On the other hand, please don’t be confused since my comment, you acidly criticized, was submitted with the intention of congratulate Olivier’s funny comment and not for doing “your usual dramatic post fight analysis” as you wrongly mentioned. I would like to let you know it was also interesting to find out that you corrected your original text after the fact, May be because the English used wasn’t very academic.Am I right?
For your knowledge when you identify somebody with a color you have to be careful because the negative implications that such action could carry out. Orange has positive and negative ones. The positive among others that better match our discussion are: sociable, enthusiastic, etc. The negatives are: superficial, the exhibitionist, etc. Do you still think I qualify for the negative ones or your didn’t know the meaning of orange before replying to my comment?
And last, to be honest with you, it is difficult for me to understand you. I just believe you don’t know how expressing yourself properly in spite of the way you handling English. Did you realized that you approved my comment to Olivier clicking in ^ but wrote below mine what I consider a negative comment ? Please define yourself and I would apologize as required.
First of all buy a smartphone and you won’t have to sit your a*s infront of your PC to answer a question in any comment section since you get a notification sound when someone replies to you. when I first found this gem of a site circa just before 2008 I never saw your comment but I did see mattsnows comments Which was well after 2008, you may babble alot on here but that doesn’t mean someones a newcomer to you, any user can use this site without commenting and he or she probably started using this site long before you with many different profiles, people do this for many reasons.When u talk about your numbers I find it hilarious, you really do use ur time spent here like a badge of honor! Also I did use the word ORANGE TANGO to crack a joke about your profile name as in a joke regarding a well known soda. Yes the word ORANGE can be used in ways to describe a personality but my comment was not meant to, even if I did use the word exhibition. Remember you’re the one who needed the actual English lesson since you brought it up and while bringing it up ur grammar was terrible just like the last one you just sent, it has so many basic mistakes and wrong word description that for a moment I was too disgusted to reply, but only did so since I can see you’re a sensitive individual and I like teaching people how the English language should be spoken and written at its finest.
please guy @tango2042:disqus @KamrulKks:disqus stop with these kind of comments….it’s not useful for this page, it’s better to write something about the fight Williams vs Rodriguez, if not we start to delete what you write. thanks
@ATBF don’t worry guys for me is done. You are quite right it doesn’t make sense at all to enter in this kind of discussion that I haven’t really initiated but which I’m stopping now.
Kamrul, if Tango is right on one thing, it’s that we all respect each other on this forum even though we disagree sometimes.
Respect was not the issue here since no one disrespected no one. A simple joke was taken the wrong way by a very sensitive person so I had to explain the context of the joke, so I’d rather let him speak and no one else gets involved in something they might not fully understand because I’m sure it can spiral out of control again where the moderator has also had to step in..
Nice to see an actual moderator speaking since the guys head got too big and started calling users newcomers like he runs this site! Using this site many many years now and annoys me how less appreciation users show instead bragging about themselves and their friends, pathetic. Thanks for another week of top quality uploads my gratitude is never ending for your hard work guys thanks and whatever u say ATBF. much love
kamrul Kks: Sorry but I cannot permit to pass your without putting my last comment to close this subject. For your info I’m 74 years old and taught by my father long time ago to never brag. Believe it or not i don’t do that at all since isn’t my nature. I leave those things for the young guys :-). Please I recommend you to maintain your current alias in order to avoid confusions and being called a newcomer as i did as it is natural.Thank you
You just couldn’t help yourself You sensitive old fart could you? And again terrible grammar missed punctuations etc.Btw of course you brag, things like how many friends you have here, the numbers, your contents, and a whole lot of other nonsense just for using this site seen it in your other comments too btw to me your the newcomer since I never saw you when I first found this site. Talking about aliases in a hypothetical manner, I use my own name instead of a bloody soft drink, now that doesn’t bode well for a 74 year old! Ok that’s my closure.
Yeah.. I call this one a NC.
Surprised you haven’t replied to my comment below? Looks like someone just got humbled!
From the very beginning Rodriguez did the wrong fight by not keeping the right distance that better match his reach advantage, and in addition too, he was not able of properly finishing the fight. What a shame since Williams was almost toasted after receiving a powerful head punch in the second round. Mostly this bout looks like a street fight but with Williams showing more punch accuracy. Technically, I didn’t like any of these two boxers.
I’m with you, Tango. C*ap boxing.
That’s why Williams will probably be destroyed by Stevenson. Yvon Michel their promoter emitted an IF they meet, he’ll see in the next week if Chicken meets Williams :(