Saturday, May 14, 2005

Winky Dominates Tito

In a surprisingly easy victory, Winky Wright scored a unanimous decision over Tito Trinidad, 120-107, 119-108 (2 cards).
Tito entered the rinag among thousands of fans screaming their appreciation. Surprisingly Winky appeared to be bigger when the fighters were in the stare down.
Winky began round 1 throwing the jab, which appeared to frustrate Trinidad. Tito could not answer Winky's right jab. Wright threw it early & often, quiting the crowd in round two.
Winky kept his hands high all night that made it unusually tough for Tito to land punches. Anxious Tito fans would cheer for meaningless punches while Tito appeared to be gun shy and scared.
Scattered chants for Winky became more audible after about round 5.
Trinidad needed to put together combinations if he was going to have a chance of keeping up with Winky. Unfortunaely, Tito could not seem to make Winky respect his power and his lack of a back-up plan made the end result inevitable.
As much as I hate Tito, by round 8 I was feeling sorry for him. Tito eyes had the get me out of here look. By that time the fight was so one sided it was not even interesting, I began to imagine Winky versus Ouma and Tito versus DLH, the rematch.
Great night of boxing.

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