Punished!!!!!

Paul Williams lost by UD to Carlos Quintana Saturday night. It was Williams' first defense of his WBO Welterweight title. It is not as big of upset to me as it was to many boxing observers. As I had stated before in one of my other posts, Paul Williams keeps his hands low and gets hit easily. Last night was no different. Quintana went to work on Williams and was landing clean shots to the head of Williams quite easily. If Quintana had more pop in his punches the fight could have possibly ended early. Williams was cut over both eyes and had some swelling on his both sides of his face. All the talk of Williams being the most feared and avoid welterweight were silenced last night. I always thought Paul Williams was overrated and last night he was exposed by Carlos Quintana. Williams still can bounce back but he will have to go back to the drawing board and learn how to use his reach better, keep his hands in better position to block punches, and work the body better. As far as Quintana his future looks great. Big money fights can lie ahead of him if promotions are done properly. It was a long road for him to become a world champion and he earned it.

Andre Berto fought a great fight against Michel Trabant. Berto come out at the bell establishing his jab and power shots and never let Trabant into the fight. He put his punches together very well in this fight and landed some hard uppercuts as well. You could see Berto trying to improve on his defense but he still has work to do. With his offense being so strong it may take awhile for someone to either really hurt him due to his lack of defense or hell his defense may actually get strong. However last night Berto did what he was supposed to and landed the harder shots and Trabant did not answer the bell for the 7th round. A great win for Berto who now looks to move up in the welterweight world.