I'm asking because, once again, I had the "b-side" fighter winning the fights last night. I scored the Naverette and Conceicao fight round by round, and I thought Robson won but a couple rounds, despite the knockdowns. I couldn't see any rounds going to Navarette except the rounds where he scored a knockdown. For me, I thought it was obvious.
Likewise, I saw De Los Santos winning all of the early rounds. Despite what Compubox said, I didn't see Shakur land anything except a jab here or there for most of the fight. But De Los Santos would sometimes get a right hook in or a left to the body. He'd land AT LEAST one power punch a round, which is more than Shakur. Shakur didn't do much until the last four rounds or so. I can't see how a man wins a fight by only throwing with four rounds to go.
So I want to see how many in the community saw the fight the way I did or, at least, saw the fight somewhat as I saw the fight.
In all honesty, I'm beginning to think of boxing the same way Chael Sonnen thinks of it. I don't remember boxing looking like such a sideshow ten or 20 years ago.
The draw was a good result.
Navarette had the power, but maybe those twinkies they were talking about finally did catch up with him. He didn't have the same engine he had against Valdez.
And what was he doing for the first two minutes of 12th round? It was the 12th round, and wobbly, exahusted but durable Concecaio (sp?) was still digging deep and swinging, missing but swinging, while Navarette seemed to be saving up for something that never materialized.
I thought Shakur won wider than it was. I thought it was very competitive tho, but to me Shakur just did a lil more most rds.
I had Robson vs Nav a draw & wouldn't have been mad at either guy getting the decision.
Yeah. I saw some people have it close like that (the Naverette fight), but I watched it on the forum here, and for the most part, we have Robson winning. But you had Shakur winning? Neither guy did much, so there's that. But I saw De Los Santos pushing the fight at least. He was more of the aggressor. And he would land the more telling punches except in the later rounds. If you had that fight a draw, then I'd be fine with that. But I thought an accurate score would either have De Los Santos winning or having the fight a draw. People were saying Shakur was landing punches when he wasn't. By round three, they said he'd landed 16 punches but he hadn't even THROWN that many punches by round three.
It was kind of a fixed fight. I think both of these fights have a slight stink of being fixed. But that's what we expect from boxing I guess ....