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Wright has all the right
stuff against Trinidad

Middleweight fight a mismatch as winner
loses only 2 rounds total on scorecards

TRINIDAD WRIGHTAP
Felix Trinidad, left, takes a hard right from Winky Wright in the ninth round of their middleweight fight on Saturday. Wright won by unanimous decision.

In the fourth round, Trinidad threw his first meaningful punches, a combination that backed Wright up. But Wright shrugged it off, motioning to Trinidad as if to say, “Is that all you’ve got?”

Wright (49-3, 25 knockouts) worked with his hands high, moving in behind the right jab that landed with such force that it snapped back Trinidad’s head almost every time. When the two got in exchanges, he followed the right with straight left hands to Trinidad’s head.

“You’re making this fight so one sided, man. Keep it up,” trainer Dan Birmingham told Wright after the sixth round.

Meanwhile, in Trinidad’s corner there was growing desperation as the rounds went on and Wright piled up points on the ringside scorecards.

“Get closer,” Trinidad’s father and trainer, Tito Sr., repeatedly told his son between rounds. “Are you listening to me?”

Trinidad (42-2) was listening, but had no answers. Almost every time he tried to set himself to throw a right hand, he got a jab by Wright in his face.

The more aggressive Trinidad became as the rounds went on, the more he paid for it. Trinidad was supposed to be the big puncher, but he rarely landed anything clean through Wright’s defenses while Wright seemed to shake Trinidad with both his right jab and his lefts down the middle.

The frustration was evident as Trinidad, finding no targets upstairs, repeatedly hit Wright below the belt. By the ninth round, referee Jay Nady had seen enough, and took a point from Trinidad for the low blows.

Trinidad never went down, but he seemed hurt a number of times as Wright peppered him with the stiff jab, left hand and an assortment of other punches including a big right uppercut in the 10th round.

Wright made a name for himself last year by beating Mosley twice to unify the 154-pound title. That not only got him the fight with Trinidad, but a $4 million payday that was his biggest ever.

Trinidad, who knocked out Ricardo Mayorga in his first comeback fight in October, earned $8 million.

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