Rios is made for Pacquiao.. It'll be a war but it'll make Pacquiao look great again and people will once again be asking for Pacquiao-Mayweather given Mayweather takes care of business tomorrow night. I see the fight looking similar to the Pacquiao-Margarito fight.
this isn't the amateurs (prior to last year) you moron, where a jab counts the same as a power shot
fucking noobs smh
Canelo dominated Lara in the power shots department, Lara dominated with a JAB
In the pros, "effective punches" are weighed more heavily than jabs, like I said this isn't the fucking amateurs (pre-2013), learn how to score a fight
if anything, these punch stats favor Canelo when the overall disparity was TEN punches, that's less than 1 punch per round difference!
Learn how to score a fight? Nowhere in scoring does it say that power shots weigh more than jabs. Effective punches count. So what do you score.. a thudding body shot that landed on Lara's elbow? Or the the 1-2 that Lara was landing all night.
Let me recap what the four criteria of scoring boxing rounds are (notice that nowhere does it say anything about power shots. It does mention "clean" shots though):
Clean punching: "Clean" punches are punches that land on the face/side of the head and the front/side of the torso.
Effective aggressiveness: A boxer demonstrates this trait when he consistently and successfully moves forward in a controlled manner.
Ring generalship: The judges favor the fighter who controls the pace and style of the bout.
Defense: Boxers that skillfully incorporate defensive maneuvers receive credit in this area.
Outcome:
Clean punching: Yeah, right. His body shots were landing on Lara's elbows. He wasn't landing many to the face/side of the head and the front/side of the torso.
Effective aggressiveness: It would be effective if he were cutting the ring off. Instead he was just chasing him. It's funny that Lara could be moving the wrong way for a southpaw (to his left) the entire time and Canelo still couldn't catch him with a right hand.
Ring generalship: Again, this wasn't Canelo's type of fight. Lara slowed down the pace. He chose when to engage and when to move. He started off any combo and Canelo was lucky enough to land a body shot in the middle of those exchanges. It's not like Canelo ever got off first.. He failed to land a SINGLE jab in six of the 12 rounds and he landed a total of NINE JABS in the entire fight.
Defense: Not much needs to be said. Canelo was missing wildly and being spun around.
Lara put on a clinic.
I don't see how anyone thinks Provodnikov won.. and I was rooting for Provodnikov. I had him losing 116-110... Provodnikov was outboxed, outworked, and outclassed..
Easy fight for Algieri and a rematch would be worse with Algieri being able to see out of both eyes.