Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Pernell Whitaker?

[bengidaro]

Bert Sugar told a story about how they ran into a blind man on the street and the man said that Whitaker won."Even a blind man can see the Pernell won" The story is obviously not true but it shows how overwhelmingly people thought Whitaker won. Or at least how strongly Bert did.

[satori555]

bert sugar ran into one of the judges?

[The Troll]

Now correct me if I'm mistaken, but this makes no sense.

If both fighters throw roughly the same number of punches, and landed roughly the same number of equally effective punches. Then how the hell do you score the round based on defense?

If that was the scenario, then wouldn't there defense also be equal? Since both fighters threw the same number of punches, and both fighters landed the same number of effective punches.



If that was the case, I would score that round based on Ring Generalmanship, rather than defense.

the key word there was 'about.'

[Easy-E]

I was reading "Boxing's Greatest Fighters" by Bert Sugar and I got to Pernell Whitaker at #48, and Bert discussed Whitaker vs. Chavez. Bert made it sound like Whitaker won the fight pretty clearly and it was declared a draw wrongfulley. I never saw the fight but was curious on what happened that night, did Whitaker get robbed out of his best performance? Or did Chavez earn a draw?

Whitaker won 8 rounds, not question.
The fight wasnt even CLOSE.