Now or Never? Neither! Gorres gets draw

Z Gorres has lost an outright chance for a World title fight when he got only a draw against Australian Vic Darchinyan in Cebu. It was a forgettable fight. The referee ruled a slip by Gorres a knockdown which prompted the local crowd to get rowdy and throw plastic bottles in the ring. This sort of unnerved the rather inexperienced referee from New Zealand and make matters worse. Z got non-calls for pushing and head-butting by Darchinyan which caused a substantial amount of blood to spew out of his head. In fairness to the Australain, he dropped Z a couple of times which should have been ruled as legitimate knockdowns by the ref but instead were called mere slips. Not really a show of good officiating if you ask me.

To be fair, I think Darchinyan won the fight by a slim margin. Z lost steam and his bounce towards the end of the fight. Could this be because he weighed two pounds over the limit the day before the fight and that he had to shed off the extra poundage causing him to lose energy? Could it be that he over-trained by sparing more than a hundred rounds before the fight? Z wasn’t the same Z that knocked out former world champion Eric Ortiz some months ago. I guess Z would do well by taking extra measures to improve his stamina and endurance. I don’t question his boxing ability as he is one of the most gifted, if not the best, ring technicians in the country. He just needs to up his punching and staying power to legitimate his claim for a world championship belt. Let’s have a rematch sans the bad officiating and the bottles.