WOW, Outside of HBO the fight was alot closer

[Kobe Bryant]

I don't see how someone could score for Margarito that's just ridiculous. he was clearly outboxed in that fight. He had a few moments that helped him win three rounds that's it. He lost like the first seven rounds. Oh well atleast the judges got it right. He still outlanded Marg despite the lower connect percentage. And Williams won the most important round the twelth to seal thy e deal.

[GunStar]

Margarito best round was the 11th round, he only landed 1 more punch then Williams in the 11th round.

Williams landed 101 more punches
Williams landed more punches in 10 rounds
Williams threw over 700 more punches

**** Lederman was being very nice to Margarito, he scored a round to Margarito where Williams landed 11 more punches, I think it was the 6th round.

Arum thinks Margarito was robbed, so I'm not surprised Arum paying some of these morons just to say Margarito won the fight, anyone who thought Margarito won the fight, should lose their jobs.

[Dirt E Gomez]

That just means they're all morons. It wasn't close. Regardless of the weaker shots thrown by Williams... he was still throwing and still landing w/ a good deal of them. Furthermore, Margarito never did **** even when he was winning rounds. His best round was nothing more than Williams avoiding 90% of his wide punches and because he stepped up the pressure williams didn't throw back for a bit while he continued to move away.

Marg won 4 rounds at the most.

[JOM'S]

Ugh.

could this be the once again HBO bias or maybe people just extending their hate for Margarito some more? Williams backhanded a ton of blocked pitter patter and a lot of it didn't even land. Tony landed the better shots hands down......there's just no comparison there.

I agree in that Williams probably won but it was closer than Ledderman had it that's for sure. He was just nuthugging the entire way as usual.

seem like your describing the ponce de leon vs gerry penolasa fight ...

which the judges out of 36 rounds only gave gerry 2 rounds...

[sonofisis]

Williams won by a wide margin, 8 rounds to 4 imo.. Anyone who scored it for Marg was simply looking at Margarito and not Williams during the fight, that's ridiculous for anyone to score it for Marg, good thing the judges were sane..

[bishop2006]

I didn't even see it that close myself

I had it 8-3-1 for Williams

Exacly the same as my score,what terrible scoring from the other sites

[-Hyperion-]

williams won that fight 117-111, theres your ****ing experts who had margarito win, i guess after this we can take their opinion for what is worth, bull****...

[Famoso Matador]

I watched the fight and thought Williams had clearly won, my friend whom was sitting next to me the thought Margarito won, and it blew my mind. Margarito landed the hardder punches but he didnt land enough, Williams outworked him from start to finish.

[DiegoFuego]

I got this from Yahoo's boxings page:

Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports: Margarito, 116-112

Tim Smith, New York Daily News: Draw, 114-114

Steve Springer, Los Angeles Times: Draw, 114-114

Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times: Margarito, 115-113

Steve Kim, MaxBoxing.com: Margarito, 115-113

Doug Fischer, MaxBoxing.com: Margarito, 115-113

Jerry Magee, San Diego Union-Tribune: Williams,
116-112

Robert Morales, Los Angeles Daily News: Williams,
115-113

Carlos Arias, Orange County Register: Williams,
115-113

David Avila, Riverside Press Enterprise: Draw, 114-114

Francisco Salazar, *********.com: Draw, 114-114



I had it 116-112 Williams, but I think the fight showed that both margarito and williams are world class level guys... i think they give any of the top guys a tough fight

that is sickening. Margarito didn't win 4 rounds

[ELPacman]

You're right that Williams's punches were backhanded pitter patter ****, mostly worthless punches. But Marg didn't do enough except in four of the late rounds. He looked slow; if he had pressed the gas at the end of the 11th he could have had a 10-8 round, and he didn't go after it in the twelfth. I wasn't impressed with Williams, but I though 116-112 in his favor was a good score

You weren't impressed by a man that threw over 100 punches a round. Took Margarito's best shots. Showed great composure admist the maddness in the last few rounds and throughout considering it was his first real test and what a test it was. This man was calling out Margarito, got him and beat him. Give him his credit.