Nagy Aguilera not ready for the likes of Antonio Tarver

Nagy Aguilera (left) was a punching bag for the former light-heavy weight champ. Photo courtesy of Showtime's Showbox: the New Generation

If last night’s Showbox: the New Generation’s feature bout was being viewed in an Irish Pub, observers in that pub may have used an analogy with their game of darts. Given a 100 darts, Nagy Aguilera (16-5-0, 11KO’s) probably hit Antonio Tarver (the dart board) only five times.

Tarver (28-6-0, with 19 KO’s), the former light-heavyweight champ, who’s making a comeback in the heavyweight division, slipped Aguilera’s punches, ducked under others and moved right or left out of harms way for ten rounds, all while dealing with a bothersome left shoulder injury. In his first comeback fight after 17 long months, Tarver wrenched his shoulder and then like any true warrior dealt with the pain for seven long rounds. Meanwhile, his hand-picked opponent botched his opportunity to make a name for himself.

What does this performance say about Tarver who turns 42 on November 21st? Even with the added weight (Tarver weighed 221 lbs for this fight) he needs more work to turn that excess girth into solid muscle because he’ll never knock anyone out with the power he showed last night. Unless he plans to outbox people, ala Floyd Mayweather Jr., his days in the heavyweight division are numbered.

The other bouts of note:

Saturday 16 October 2010

at the Olimpyskiy Sports Palace in Chekhov, Russia

heavyweights

Alexander Povetkin

19–0–0 with 14 KO’s

wins by KO in 5th rd

over Teke Oruh

14–2–1

Friday 15 October 2010
at the Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
	super middleweights	Lucian Bute	26–0–0 w/21 KO’s	KO win 9th rd	over Jesse Brinkley	35–5–0 w/ 22 KO’s