And apparently that's what wins you rounds
Lunging in with wild missed punches and falling into your opponent is hardly deserving of any credit either! The point is that this was a terrible fight because of both fighters, neither fighter deserves any credit for this showing. Every round was close because there was so little quality clean punching in each round to separate the fighters clearly. Therefore almost any score would be plausible to me.
Someone should tell Marrero that he is allowed to put his hands up. This is an embarrassment as a world title fight, missing so wildly that I needed to duck to avoid their punches.
The only reason he layed on the ropes is because Usmanee couldn't land anything affective most of the time. Mendez landed more power shots, cleaner power shots and with more power. What more do you want.
Skilful fighters can keep pressure fighters from fixing them on the ropes as much as Mendez was on the ropes here. A number of these rounds he allowed himself to be there and have Usmanee punch and punch and punch, Usmanee missed a lot but also landed and Mendez only landed clean intermittently. It should not be a surprise that the judges had it a draw, as I have said Usmanee won points for ring generalship on most of the rounds. Mendez fought a poor fight although I did have it 115-113 Mendez, a draw however was a perfectly respectable interpretation of the fight. If I had given Usmanee the 10th or 11th, rounds which were very close, then I would not have scored it for Mendez.
Yeah but the stupid judges got it wrong again and ruined it. Mendez beat the crap out of Usmanee.
He really didn't.
Mendez is clearly the better fighter but he lay on the ropes throughout a lot of the fight and let Usmanee punch a lot. Granted Usmanee was msising a hell of a lot but Mendez lost a number of rounds just by letting Usmanee work and not doing enough in response. In terms of ring generalship Usmanee won a lot of rounds.
Franco super spoiled this fight. His whole strategy was to make fortuna look bad instead of winning. He needs to retire instead of pretending he wanted to. This guy isn't a fighter
If your opponent is lunging in with wild power punches, missing with them and falling right into you then of course you are going to hold on to him.
116-112 Pacquiao for me. Compubox numbers definitely looked way off to me, thought Horn landed way more than they gave him credit for. I guess there were enough close rounds that the cries of robbery are, as per usual, overstating things but I personally thought Pacquiao pulled it off. Great effort from Horn though, rematch or retirement for Pacquiao.
Boxing fans can never decide about whether being heavy at the weight is an advantage (bigger man) or a disadvantage (he was drained), each explanation seems to be trotted out when it suits.
Sad it has come to this,certain posters have agendas when their favorite type of fighter loses or is threatened..These posters are a virus to the sport..they do not support or even like Tank at all, he at this time is not a threat to any fighter they support so they will use him to slam the threats..soon as he becomes a threat they will slam him hard
Stop being so ****ing insecure.
600k PPV's is about right.
Average PPV price $65 x 600,000 = 39 mil
39 - 50% (Cable Providers and HBO cut) = 19.5 mil
19.5 mil + 7.4 mil gate = 26.9 mil
As I understand it HBO gets 10% of the PPV revenue off the top and the cable providers get 50% (so 55% rather than 50% for cable providers and HBO cut) but yes I think you are right that these figures are consistent with around 600,000 pay per view buys.
I had it 115-113 Ruiz, lots of very close rounds. Parker's jab needs a lot of improvement, it is possibly he will look a little better against opponents his own height or taller.
I thought Kovalev defeated Ward but it wasn't a robbery, get over it.
There were only two or maybe three robberies in 2016 in world title fights that I can recall. Badou Jack was robbed of victory against Lucian Bute, Fedor Chudinov was robbed blind by Felix Sturm and Liborio Solis was borderline robbed against Jamie McDonnell. The non-world title fight robbery of 2016 that springs to mind was Marcus Brown robbing Kalajdzic.
It does seem very likely Golovkin will be fighting in Kazakhstan in the summer with the EXPO being there and Golovkin being an official ambassador. Saunders would be the best opponent for it.
The odds for Badou Jack look too good to not back. DeGale is definitely the more talented of the two but Jack is very steady whilst DeGale is very up and down during the course of the fight. I think this is one where putting a little on the draw would be very wise.