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IBF junior middleweight champion Cory Spinks was a serious underdog when he stepped in the ring with middleweight champ Jermain Taylor in Memphis. He was able to go the distance, but lost by split decision. [details]
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What Cory and Kevin Cunningham fail to realize is that Floyd landed what, 50% of his punches while Cory landed 12%. Also Floyd actually landed some very hard shots that buckled Oscar numerous times.
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I agree with Cory to a degree, but you shouldn't expect to move up and beat a man so much bigger if you can't crack worth a damn at the weight. You lost buddy, you have to deal with it.
Looking back on the fight:
Despite the low connect percentage, his total punches landed were credited to within 20 punches of Taylor's, and he out threw Jermaine by over 100 punches. This is often not the case with low connect pct stats from the loser. The punches landed stat is often way under the radar as well.
Spinks also had Jermaine out of it mentally, which made it even worse for Taylor.
I also agree with the fact that it was on Jermaine to figure out how to neutralize Cory's offense, and not on Cory to engage since it wasn't his strength (however, I'd much rather size mismatch fights with an elusive, feather fisted small guy weren't made). Spinks was there to figure out, but Taylor wasn't listening to his corner or using any kind of individual thought while in the ring (i.e. if you can't get the head, get the body, and if you find something that works... integrate it more in the offense (the straight right)). The combination of Spinks being allowed to fight his fight to a T, and Taylor being lost and later performing as if he were beaten (increasing inactivity) is what causes some folks to give it to Cory. Casually, (and let me put the emphasis on looking at this casually and not as a scorekeeper) it looks like Spinks won in sad fashion when you take in the entirety of the fight's ambience in the initial viewing.Last edited by Haglerwins; 05-21-2007, 06:28 AM.Comment
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I dont agree with the comparison, but if you scored this fight for Taylor then you have to score Hopkins vs Taylor 1 & 2 for Hopkins.Comment
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Agreed.
Also, Easy-E, how was this so dissimiliar from DLH-Mayweather? DLH chased PBF all night, landed many more significant punches than Taylor did vs. Spinks (as long as it was about 10 that would be many more than Taylor), an Mayweather had the same style as Spinks except with a few more straight leads, which I wish Spinks would have tried. Was it a carbon copy? Of course not, but it was similiar and so to have it scored so differently is confusing.
Scoring in my head, I think I had Taylor winning 7-5 with Spinks foolishly giving away the 12th by running and holding his hands up for the last 15 seconds (what judge is going to give you that round, Cory, you would have had a draw!) I have NO desire or intention to re-watch it, but I have a feeling if I did ON MUTE, I would see a draw or perhaps a Spinks win.Comment
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It was similar but Floyd landed more. But I don't think Cory was given enough credit for his defense. I thought he won the first 4 or 5 rounds. I think he was up on Lederman's cards through 5.Comment
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Cory lost, this was a terrible style matchup for Taylor, he'll look a lot better vs. Pavlik or Calzaghe.Comment
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He was, because he won 1, 2 and 5 on Lederman's card I believe.
I remember thinking round 3 was clearly Taylor's but 4 was VERY close and I think 6 or 7 was clearly Spinks to me, but surprise, surprise, Lederman gave it to Taylor. He did that again later in the fight after I think round 10, which I think was clearly a Spinks round too.
It seemed like after round 2 when Lederman realized this was not going to be a big Taylor win on the scorecards, he started giving EVERY close round to Taylor...again, big shock there.
Oh well, think about it folks, even if Spinks deserved to win, if he did somehow get the nod on the scorecards, we would have been subjected to a REMATCH...which HBO even may have tried to get out of televising.Comment
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I would'nt go as far as to say you won Corey but you did survive unlike many thought.....you still suck to watch tho.Comment
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