Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-04-11, some good exchanges in the second part of the fight but sometimes they look like two “runners” and not two boxers…Danny Garcia vs Lamont Peterson gets two stars.The undefeated Danny Garcia entered this fight with a perfect boxing record of 29-0-0 (17 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.1 super lightweight in the world. He has won the Wbc world title against Erik Morales in 2012 (=Garcia vs Morales) and after four months he has also won the Wba belt with Amir Khan (=Garcia vs Khan). After defending both titles four times, the last time against Mauricio Herrera (=Garcia vs Herrera), ‘Swift’ Garcia faced and beat Rod Salka in a non-title bout (at 142-pound catchweight, Garcia vs Salka).
His opponent, the former Wba light-Ww world champion Lamont Peterson, has an official record of 33-2-1 (17 knockouts) and he entered as the No.4 in the same weight class. He suffered his last defeat in 2013 when he faced Lucas Matthysse (=Peterson vs Matthysse) but after this bout he has won the Ibf world belt against Dierry Jean (=Peterson vs Jean) and defended it once with Edgar Santana (=Peterson vs Santana). Garcia vs Peterson is the main event of the evening but both the Garcia’s Wbc and Wba titles plus Peterson’s Ibf are not on the line! Watch the video and rate this fight!
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Date: 2015-04-11
Where: Barclays Center, New York, USA
Division: catchweight (143 lbs, 65 kg)
Garcia’s previous fight: Danny Garcia vs Rod Salka
Peterson’s previous fight: Lamont Peterson vs Edgar Santana
Garcia’s next fight: Danny Garcia vs Paul Malignaggi
Peterson’s next fight: Lamont Peterson vs Felix Diaz
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Official video:
This was a tough decision to make, but I thought Peterson had it. I didn’t have the chance to see the compubox stats, but that would be interesting.
wrong page mate :)
Hahaha! I made the change: PETERSON!
Very slow start of the fight, then it somewhat picked up, but I’m not too impressed with either of them. It was far better on paper than on canvas.
Clearly Peterson was the bigger man in the ring and could have taken advantage of his size. I didn’t like him in this fight, too cautious, too cocky. But as I said, he should have won.
The video is too poorly encoded to score at home, but Garcia looked a mess afterwards. Hoping we’ll see a better recording come along.
I think the rounds Garcia won were close, whereas the rounds Peterson won were one-sided
Recorded and watched in HD on the tely. He controlled the ring tempo all night. I for one had it one sided for Peterson. I gave Garcia 3 rounds. he was missing and hitting gloves/arms all night.
And no one at 147 is worried, that is for sure.
The first part of the match quite boring with a very frustrated Garcia because just him was trying to get engaged in the fight. From Peterson just a dancing show. On the 6th round the fight heated up because finally Peterson was willing to fight but it was too late for him. The result quite reflect that lazy fighters aren’t welcome by the judges.