The Contender Live 2 Hour Finale - 5/24/05
 

Remember that tonight is the live 2 hour finale at Caesar's Palace Las Vegas.

Peter Manfredo Jr. vs. Sergio Mora for the championship

Alphonso Gomez vs. Jesse Brinkley for 3rd place

Also, as mentioned in Sunday's thread, there are 3 fan favorite fights. Ishe vs. #1 Daddy is gonna be off the hook.

The other 2 matchups are Jimmy vs. Tarick and Brent vs. Jeff (Chickenpox guy)

Fan Favorite Fights

Didnt know about the fan favorite fights,i guess thats cool as long as we get to see the entire main bout and not the usual "edited" version.

They won't be edited as they're live. They'll just have the little "picture in picture" window with crowd/family reactions like they did with the fan favorite fights this afternoon.

Have they said if they're showing the fan faves on the show? I streamed them but couldn't really pay attention. Ishe vs #1 Daddy I'd really like to see for real.

I guess they arent,i just read the other thread so i guess thats it.I dont really care to see those anyway i just wanna see the two main fights :)

Round 1 was Jesse. Round 2 I give the slight edge to Jesse. Round 3 is definitely Phonso's round as he cut Jesse.

If I knew that they were taking bets, I definitely would've bet on Phonso considering he's a big underdog

Phonso dominated round 4...he hurt Jesse big time

Phonso wins an unanimous decision. :banana:

49-46 on 1 card and 48-47 on the other 2.

He wins 200K and a Toyota Tacoma.

Phonso looked much bigger today. Looks like he's been in the weight room since the taping of the show ended.

Happy for Alphonso,hes one tough dude :D Good fight :)

I like both Peter and Sergio,so best of luck to both of them and may the best man win :)

same here but I'm pulling for Peter more

Not sure who won round 1.

Wow,they were really going at it at the end of round 2 :D

Tough fight to score.

Sergio clearly took round 4. Peter could barely stand at the end of the round

That was BS by Sergio to trash talk over to Peters wife.

way too much clenching in this fight.

So far, I have Sergio up 3-2. He's throwing far more combo punches that are scoring.

Suprised how well Sergio has done fighting inside with Peter.

Sergio's got it.

Sergio dominated round 7. Peter had absolutely no gas and his punches had no zip.

Sergio was still throwing combos and his punches had a lot of zip.

I'm also surprised that Serg was able to do so well fighting in the clench.

wow, Sergio dominated the scorecards. He won 7 rounds to none on 1, 6 rounds to 1 on the other and 5 to 2 on the third. I had Sergio winning 5 rounds to 2.

Hats off to Sergio,he fought like a warrior all the way thru the Contender and is a deserving champion.

The 2 Mexicans rise to the top.

What the hek was up with #1 Daddy flipping Ishe? Ishe's hat was hilarious. It said "I'm the #1 Daddy" :lol:

Madd props to Sergio. He clearly won the fight.

Still, something inside of me says that Ishe was the best fighter here and if the Sergio Ishe fight were 7 rounds, Ishe would've won. I'd love to see a Sergio-Ishe rematch.

So sad that this show isn't getting renewed :sad:

Mora kicked that ass and Peter almost fell out right at the end.

Congrats to Mora, he hands down deserved the victory.

Jessie pissed me off as he obviously thought he could win based on his size and confidence alone. I wanted him to win the whole thing but after the fight tonight I'm glad Gomez took it.

"I'm the #1 daddy" so damn funny and I'm glad "che" beat him as well.

Great show and I really hope there will be another but............................more than likely there won't be. So sad man, so sad.

American idol sucks................sorry, that thread bumped me out so I ..... just ..... had ..... to :)

Extremely upset that we won't be seeing a second season of the Contender. This is the only reality show I have ever liked, and it is one of my favorite shows this season.

Me too. Damn shame NBC isn't giving this show another season.

I loved the Contender. Best reality show in a long time - I actually really liked today's fan's fights were better than the main event tonight, but whatever. I recommend everyone check out the Ishe v. #1 Daddy. Completely insane - Ishe completely dominated. I picked Ishe to win the entire thing - at least he got to beat up #1 Daddy.

Did anyone else get annoyed with Sly constantly playing the huckster demanding a rematch from the get go? Hell, I want another season as much as anyone but you can see through Sly pretty easily.

Oh ya, that almost made me turn it off. I have no problem with them saying it at the end of round 7 and after the fight, but they brought up rematch in round 2. Rediculous

Still, this is the best reality show ever, and somehow they're not picking it up. We all lost

I had Sergio winning 4 rounds and the other three being even. I didn't really get why the announcers kept saying it was so tough to score. Three rounds were, but the other 4 Sergio won pretty convincingly IMO. He just backed against the ropes, blocked 3/4's of Peter's shots, and countered with 3 or 4 punches for every one Peter landed.

Hat's off to him, I didn't think he had a chance against Peter, and I'm damn glad to see him win as I'd have hated to see a fighter who lost end up getting the million bucks due to lucking into a second chance.

Yeah, I forgot to mention this. He also said that this was a candidate for fight of the year :lol:

This fight had almost as much clenching as a John Ruiz fight.

Still hats off to a great show. Hopefully some network will pick up season 2.

Just caught this on DVR. Hats of to the two fighters I was rooting for all season - Sergio and Alfonso. Great stuff from both of them. Awesome finale.

One judge scored the main fight a skunk by the Snake with the 70-63 score. Yikes!

I'd score it 68-65 at best.

Sergio was doing classic Sugar Ray Leonard moves with the ratta-tat-tat acting to steal rounds at the end of the rounds, and the showboating of showing the glove before ripping Peter with uppercuts to the body and chin.

Props to Sergio to not let Peter push him around after the 1st round.

I was VERY disappointed in Peter today, but I had a feeling the snake would win. Also, I would have bet on Alfonso. That boy is awesome.

Sergio won the fight just like he beat Ishe although if I'm a judge, I don't score it the same. Those baby punch combo's are useless to me. I give Peter a lot more credit for being the agressor the entire fight and throwing power punches. Sergio couldn't knock down me I don't think. If I were to rank the fighters after this, I would have

1) Ishe
2) Gomez
3) Sergio
4) Manfredo
5) Jesse

Man I LOVE this show! Is everyone positive it's not coming back for another season? This was my favorite show behind Lost..

I was extremely happy to see Alfonzo beat Jesse. Sly and Sugar are right when they say Fonzo has the most heart.. The guy just don't give up.. I thought for sure he was going to get a KO with all the body shots. Never seen Jesse hurt that bad. That was awesome! :D

I personally think Sergio dominated the fight. I liked both of them and was sorta pulling for Peter but I have no problem with the Snake winning. It really did look like he could go another 7 rounds. I think Peter got saved by the bell the one round (can't remember which). The Snake was freakin hammering ham and Peter had no clue where he was.. At times it looked like if Sergio would have just moved out of the way that Peter would have just fell over. He had no gas left in the tank and his punches were coming so slow while Sergio seemed to be firing on all cylinders..

Couple side notes..

Anyone think the camera action sucked REAL bad in the first fight and sucked somewhat in the final?

And how about the mic's always going in and out. When Sly asked Fonzo if he would rematch Peter and you didn't hear any of Fonzo's answer but you can see him talking.

And I totally agree about Sly trying to plug for another season. That got way annoying.

P.S. Sly sucked live. Screwed up and couldn't understand half the stuff he said.

Great season and great show! :thumbsup:

Also, what's up with only a 5 round fight for 3rd place? They had 7 round fights for the two final fights to get to the last one but only a 5 rounder for 3rd place? I wanted 7 because I bet Fonzo woulda KO'd Jesse.

I also wish the final was a 12 round fight.

I appreciated Sly's plugging for another season because he, like us, knows that the show was cancelled. He was basically saying to all the networks "This is a great fucking show. Who has the balls to pick it up?"

:lol: :up:

Yo, Adrian!