I feel it was a draw, maybe slight edge to Castillo, but could have reasonably been scored either way. I think the scorecards are what caused the backlash on Floyd, the scorecards really weren't very good and that caused an overreaction to the result.
If you had had all the scores between 114-112 in either direction I don't think there would have been as much controversy. The wide scores made it look like a fix or biased scoring.
Very close. I give it to Mayweather. Never liked the post-fight analysis by Larry and Lampley, they made it sound like Mayweather was battered from pillar to post, and people just parrot them, but watching the fight...it's obvious Mayweather edged it.
That is your way of scoring a fight and not mine. I give the round to the boxer who lands more and better punches. I don't score rounds for the boxer who made him miss unless he made him pay with more punches. In other words landed punches count for you but missed punches don't count against you. If they did then Clottey beat Pacquiao without throwing many punches because he blocked and slipped so many punches. Never mind that Pacquiao threw and landed many more punches. If missing punches really cost you points high volume punchers would be afraid to let their hands go for fear of missing punches and losing points. Boxing is scored by punches landed not punches blocked or slipped. Making punches miss is it's own reward because you didn't get hit. Mayweather did get hit a lot by Castillo. If you are kidding or being sarcastic that's different.
Great fughin point
Blows my mind the way people judge a fight
And the fact is , if a fighter is so slick that he makes his opponent miss , but doesn’t make him pay , then what’s the fughin point
Might as well get hit
You wanna say controversial then say that.
You use robbery, that's revisionism.
When folks discuss SRL/Hagler, most know it was close.
When folks discuss Whitaker/Chavez, most know it was an awful card.
But, most folks avoid the word robbery in those old fights and rightly so.
And objective folks mention everything, not just the things that further the point they want to make.
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Whitaker vs Chavez took place September 10, 1993. as soon as the cards were read it was called a robbery and still is til this day.
I scored the fight 114-112 for Mayweather. I thought Mayweather swept the first 5 rounds and I also felt that he won both rounds where points were deducted. Castillo didn't do anything in the the 8th round until the last 30 seconds or so. I scored that round 10-8 for Mayweather. If I had scored the 10th round for Castillo, my card would have been 113-113.
I can't believe there isn't a decent video of this fight online. The two on Youtube look like ass.
It was a close fight that could've gone either way. Only retards would call those robberies. I scored it for Floyd, but have no issue with anyone scoring it for Castillo. That's why we had the rematch.