5-1

5-1 + 1 world championship. Normally I'd be jumping up and down with joy but the 1 happens to be Boom Boom Bautista. I wouldn't be so bummed out about it had it been more competitive. But he was completely blown out of the building. First round knockout. It wasn't even a contest.

The funny thing is that before the fight, a part of me was actually wishing he'd lose. I always felt that it's better for a young, promising fighter to get his first loss early in his career, just to get it out of the way. Some fighters achieve too much success too early. It gets to their head and often do not recover mentally once they do suffer that first loss (i.e. Naseem Hamed). Boom Boom is young and will learn from this loss. He'll come back a better fighter and will one day become world champion.

The real story of the day though goes to Gerry Penalosa. What an awesome body shot. It was on par with the Hatton-Castillo or Hopkins-de la Hoya fights. It was perfect. And how could you not be happy for Penalosa? What you saw on his face was pure, unadulterated joy and gratitude for once again becoming world champion. And at age 35 at that. Now we have 3 legitimate world champions to be proud of. It was inspiring and easily the highlight of the day.