The Next Generation 7: King of the Monsters

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

Mitchell vs. Irving
Robert Mitchell, TKO, R1
After reading his wiki, it sucks that Irving got cut from the nfl for weed. That being said, Mitchell has boxing experience which counts more than athleticism.

Alexander vs. Haney
Demetrius Alexander, TKO, R1
Champions in Christ is a can factory

Cato-Cain vs. Ellis
Damoni Cato-Cain, TKO, R1
The legend jay ellis returns

Had a great night at the fights, but the judging was astonishingly bad. Aguilar got homered - that was no draw. The Irving-Mitchell decision was flat out robbery. And I'm still trying to figure out what happened to Baue. He looked fine to me (aside from an apparent wedgie), but didn't come out for the fourth round. Enjoyed the event, but it wasn't the most legit boxing card you'll see.

Because precisely no one asked: Irving actually looked great physically even at 270+, but he was gassed in the first round. His only saving grace was that Mitchell was almost as bad off. Mitchell still did enough to win the last three rounds going away; there is no rational reason for Irving to have gotten the decision, and unless he improves drastically, he has no future in boxing.

So you were at the show? I've been to a few small Hall shows and there's always some wild **** going down! Whether it's in the ring(brutal KO's, blatant robberies byhomet judges!) or out of the ring(terrible conditions, lots of fights between opposing boxers friends and family!).

So was that David Irving a high level NFL guy?? I'd never heard of him but I only know a little about NFL. There wasn't any mention of it in any boxing websites or even on Boxing twitter.
Anyway, so you're saying that Irving isn't the mythical NFL level Athlete to make a successful transition to combat sports??! 

Hi, Mikey,

Yes, I was at the show. Irving was a marginal talent for the Cowboys who washed out following several positive tests, both for PEDs and cannabis. He's been training at Terence Crawford's gym in Omaha for a few months. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Irving_(American_football)

If you saw Mark Gastineau's fight against Tim Anderson, this was practically a replay. Irving didn't go down, but he was so gassed by the end of the first round that he could barely stand. He did score a flash knockdown early on that looked like a push from where I was sitting, but the best thing that could be said about him in rounds 2-4 was that he was ambulatory. Granted, Mitchell didn't look much better (he weighed in at 314 and looked about 7 months pregnant), but he at least managed some combinations across the last three rounds that scored a few points. Initially, the decision was announced for Mitchell, but then, citing some math problems at the judges' table, this was "corrected" to an Irving win - to a chorus of derision and a sheepish grin from Mitchell. Horse**** decision. The draw in the Gomez-Aguilar match was defensible, I suppose, but Aguilar won that bout; Gomez got gift.

No crowd unruliness to speak of, though. One of the concession workers passed out for some reason next to us - I don't know what that was about. The medics tended to her and she was fine.

Wait, what was the actual result?
Did you just say Irving won?
You say Mitchell was originally announced as winner but then it was changed to Irving.

Says on BoxRec that Mitchell won. I have had a look on the promoter website and all it says is that it was a "controversial" result but not who actually won!!! 

It was announced as a Mitchell win first, then "corrected" by the announcer as an Irving win. If they "corrected" it back later, it wouldn't surprise me. 

Oy, gevalt. Nebraska boxing.