Alexander: I knew I could beat Purdy one-handed

By Boxing News - 05/19/2013 - Comments

purdy44By Scott Gilfoid: To show you how much of a mismatch last Saturday’s “fight” between IBF welterweight champion Devon Alexander (25-1, 14 KO’s) and his British opponent Lee Purdy (20-4-1, 13 KO’s), Alexander said he knew he could beat Purdy with only one hand and that’s exactly what he did after Alexander hurt his left hand in the 1st round in hitting Purdy on top of his head.

Alexander was able to still dominate Purdy using just his right hand and stop him in the 7th round. For a while after the injury, Alexander was able to still use his left hand, but by the 4th round the pain in his hand got to be too much for him to continue to use it. At that point Alexander focused entirely on punishing Purdy with right hands to the head and body, and doing a great job of it.

Alexander said after the fight “I hurt it in the 1st round. I knew I could beat him with one hand.”

That doesn’t say too much about Purdy, does it? But what it really says a lot about is the incredibly poor job the International Boxing Federation did by making the mistake of ranking Purdy #4 with their sanctioning body.

They were the only sanctioning body that had Purdy ranked in their top 15, and they saw enough in him to rank at #4 despite the fact that he’d never fought anyone good before and he’d lost to Denton Vassell and Colin Lynes, the two best fighters he’d faced.

The IBF ranked Purdy above Randall Bailey, Vyacheslav Sanchenko, Jessie Vargas and Carson Jones, just to name a small handful of fighters who I see as much, much better than Purdy.

When you get god awful rankings like that then you end up seeing terrible fights like the one we saw last Saturday night with Alexander beating poor Purdy like a drum for 7 rounds until Purdy’s trainer mercifully stopped the fight in the corner.



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