A look at the scorecard in Saturday night’s split decision between WBC super lightweight champion Regis “Rougarou” Prograis and Danielito Zorrilla shows that judges Josef Mason, Craig Metcalf, and Robert Tapper all had Prograis winning handily after eight rounds. However, Metcalf gave the final four rounds to Zorrilla.
The fight at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, also broke a record, albeit a dubious one. Over twelve rounds, the bout produced just 84 landed punches, the fewest in a title fight in CompuBox’s 38-year history. The previous record low of 91 was set in 2021’s Rigondeaux-Casimero barnburner.
Both fighters landed 42 punches. Prograis threw 497 total punches while Zorrilla threw 310. Both fighters landed 4 jabs. Prograis connected on 4 of 371 (1.1%), Zorrilla landed 4 of 144 (2.8%). For power punches, Prograis landed 38 of 126 (30.2%), Zorrilla connected on 38 of 166 (22.9%).
Well maybe Prograis can look on the bright side of this terrible performance and benefit from it. Maybe team Haney will see him as a vulnerable champion and make the fight based off what happened last night. However, Haney has a chin made of paper mache and the kid from New Orleans is definitely going to show up as a different fighter if that fight gets made.
When has Haney’s chin been an issue?
Check his fight vs Linares
He’s been buzzed once in 25+ fights as a pro and his chin is paper machè?
Makes sense.
Exactly!!! we know hate against a fighter when we see it. Haney likely beat their favorite fighter.
Haney was buzzed a bit by Josef Diaz and seemed stunned slightly in the Kambosos rematch. I don’t know if Haney has a shaky beard but it’s certainly been tested.
“Paper mache”? Funny I’ve never seen the kid hit the floor, in fact the only time he was visibly hurt was against a skilled fighter who could punch which is Linares. Jo Jo Diaz never rocked him, nor did Lomachenko. Regis actually was knocked down but it wasn’t called as such. I’d love to see the fight.
Doesn’t that mean Zorrulla should have won with more connected and more thrown?
José Luis castillo connected more punches and more power punches to Floyd chickenweather and Castillo was robbed
I’m the first fight
In the rematch Floyd just ran more and won unconvincingly like always
U sound like a dammm hater!
I’m just saying are that dammm crying
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Maidana also beat the living shit out of Floyd in the first fight.
According to Compubox, Maidana threw twice as many punches as Mayweather but landed less Total Punches. You are a emotionally biased revisionist.
LOL! You believe compubox?? Especially for a Floyd fight?
Naw, the hell with Compubox.. I’ll take your version of the fight. Ya, Maidana beat the living sh*t out of Floyd. It was a one sided slaughter. Floyd was lucky his corner didn’t step in and stop the carnage. Compubox and the judges also lied about the rematch. He beat Floyd even worse.
Floyd has multiple mansions and still decides to live in your head rent free , 20+ years after the first Castillo fight.
Carlos, watch the end of the second fight when a defeated Castillo just smiled acknowledging his defeat before the scorecards were announced. Yes, the first fight was highway robbery and Floyd was able to keep his 0 despite the way he was beaten by Castillo.
Neither fighter did anything in the rematch. I had it a draw, because I thought Castillo was robbed in the first fight. Although I would take 115-113 for Mayweather. First fight should have been around 116-112, to 115-113 for Caastilo.
De la hoya beat Floyd as well
And tan like chicken in the second fight he knew he could not stand in front of Castillo so he ran like &@@@& like always
Floyd the most coward fighter ever lol
Floyd smile because he ran enough to win the second fight lol …and regardless of this he lost the first one against Castillo
Castillo was granted a rematch so you critics could shut up. Mayweather outboxed him easy. You wanted May to slug because Castillo had no chance.
Yea of course he outboxed him because Floyd had no balls to fight toe to toe that’s why he never gave a fight of the year
Actually I don’t want to say he outboxed i wana say he ran like chicken
And besides the second fight Floyd lost the first one …so he is undefeated my balls
@Steve The article said, “Both fighters landed 42 punches. Prograis threw 497 total punches while Zorrilla threw 310.”
Not necessarily. It is scored round by round. If you win game one of a seven game hockey series 9-0, but lose the next 4 by a score of 1-0, you lose the series even with a higher goal total. Not all landed punches have as much of an impact, which is another factor in professional boxing.
Zorilla needs to fire his corner. Bad advice telling him to stay away and convincing him that the fight was won. Against the champ on his home turf. He could have won the fight if he would have the fight with more aggression since prograis was happy to avoid exchange. A world champ who doesn’t know how to cut off the ring . Lol
I was thinking the same about Prograis not cutting the ring off, but to cut the ring off he would have had to put himself in line with Zorilla’s right hand. After being knocked down in the 1st round by that punch (despite the referee’s incorrectly calling it a slip) he wanted no part of it. Despite coming forward and looking like an aggressor, he was really only playing the part. I think he was exposed in this fight a little. He carries his hands too low and is afraid of being knocked out. It’s a bad mix considering the opposition at 140 and Heaven help him if he moves up to 147, because he looks on the small side at 140.
Time to abandon guaranteed purses. You don’t fight, you don’t get paid. That or the athletic commissions should step in and withhold their purses for lack of effort.
Some guys fight their hearts out and get robbed by refs and judges. Others do nothing but stand in there and do nothing and get rewarded.
Either way, in the end it’s fans that end up being ripped off over and over.
This just cemented that Prograis is a boring fighter.
Chris “The Unatural”, sometimes fighters don’t take a punch as well when they are in lower weight classes; more brain injuries and deaths in boxing occur from the lower weight classes, due to cutting weight in many cases. Let’s see how his chin holds up in the higher weight classes. Every fighter gets buzzed once in awhile. I had Haney 7-5 over Loma btw.
yee..Prograis..he is a c fighter..he was easily outboxed. by whats his face..
I’m a Prograis fan but this was without a doubt the worst performance I’ve seen of his and made for a total stinkfest. Can’t believe this is the same fighter who crushed Chon Zepeda and battled with Josh Taylor. I’m hoping this fight with Zorilla was an aberration and that Rougarou will continue his destructive ways in his next outing.
He was very honest about the performance in the post fight interview, as was Eddie Hearn.
This has to be a typo.
The fight was a real stinker, but the optics of a fighter fighting on the retreat from the first to the final bell just doesn’t look good to judges. It looked like Zorilla’s strategy to potshot occasionally while moving away was not a good one. Prograis needs to improve on cutting off the ring because he was allowing Zorilla to slip out of the way as he attempted to corner him. I never want to see a fight like that again. What that was is an hour of my life wasted and I’ll never get it back.
On the flip side of the coin, both boxers should have come out of this safe and sound, since very few punches were landed.
Sad.. but Zorilla wasn’t there to fight but to survive..