Larry Merchant: "I Think Winky Won the Fight."

[majestiC]

Bernard won by 2 rounds even tho i had winky wiv money

[tito yuca]

Winky has a bad tendency of giving away championship rounds in tight fights. I scored it a draw but he should've won that fight.

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[Stickman]

I'm still trying to figure out how anyone could watch that **** twice.

Also, I'd have DQ'd Hopkins, or taken several points for dirty tactics, were I ref. If I were scoring it, I'd have been fired for sleeping, or playing tic-tac-toe on the official scorecards to keep myself awake.

[Macho_Time]

Stated after the rebroadcast on HBO World Championship Boxing..



Should this be considered a controversial descision?

Oh yeah, because we all know how much Larry loves Bernard and his word is gospel.

[donatopulla]

Merchant is hilarious. He's humourous guys, lighten up.

Winky won/ or a draw.


I do not like dirty fighting either.

lol naw, you're mistaken. Hopkins clearly won vs Winky, 8-4. Winky would come forward and miss. Hopkins would heabutt-hold whatever, it doesn't have anything to do with the outcome, the ref didn't do anything, and I've seen A LOT worse. What he did that impacted scoring was consistantly land the cleaner, harder punches. Winky looked tired and kept slumping forward, and Hopkins danced around him and nailed him with power punches (how much more obvious is compubox?) while heat butting and holding, but winning the round nonetheless. Then again, you hate on The Punisher lol, so who knows.

[Matt Marvelous]

To me, the fight was at most 7-5 for Hopkins. There's no argument for Winky other than throwing a lot of punches that either didn't land or were ineffective. You can only give so much credit for effort, and Bernard won in all of the other aspects of the fight. It was a Hopkins style fight full of feints and inside ****ing. He said he was going to force Winky to come down to his level and he followed through. Winky, for most of the fight looked nothing like he usually looks in the ring.

This was a Hopkins win, no question.