There was a nasty cut below his left eye, a nastier one above it. He could not see right hands. Rivera virtually surrendered early in the sixth round, complaining to Referee Laurence Cole that he couldn't see out of his left eye because of all the blood running into it, down his cheeks and into his mouth. Mittleman climbed up the stairs and thrown in the towel, but still Cole expected Rivera to continue. In Texas, no one is tougher than the referees.
Great fighters get up.
Trinidad goes down, but he gets up angry. His trainer, Eduardo Garcia, said he was not worried because Vargas, to him, still looked confident. Garcia must have been looking through rose-colored glasses. From the way Vargas looked last night, the distinguished trainer will need a telescope to see how his man could beat a de la Hoya in what still remains a monster match. Well, don't tell that to Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson, but to set up the de la Hoya match, Vargas appears to have his work cut out for him against Flores and possibly Wright.