The Ring (magazine): Partial Tally of its Poll: Mayweather-Hatton

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The following is the partial tally of The Ring's (Magazine) poll on who wins and in what fashion:

Mayweather by KO- 8.9%
Mayweather by decision- 36.4%
Hatton by KO - 34.4%
Hatton by decision - 18.9%
Draw -1.1%

Votes cast at the time that this was posted: 3,220

Links: http://thering-online.com/ringpages/TheRingPoll.php

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http://kappapublishing.com/v-web/vzp...results&what=1

[sonofisis]

The poll obviously reflects a lot of wishful thinking.

[THe TRiNiTY]

The poll obviously reflects a lot of wishful thinking.

The poll is accurate. Most want Hatton to win. Most think Mayweather will win.

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The poll obviously reflects a lot of wishful thinking.

LOL!!! .......

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By the way, more of those who took part in The Ring's poll for the Mosley-Cotto fight were off:

29% had thought Mosley would win by decision, while 26.6% had it for Cotto by decision.

Most of those who participated in the poll had it spot on in the Calzaghe-Kessler fight:

49.1% voted for Calzaghe by decision. 12.8% thought he would KO Kessler.

13.6% of the votes were cast for Kessler winning by decision. 23.1 % had it for Kessler by KO.

[THe TRiNiTY]

By the way, more of those who took part in The Ring's poll in the Mosley-Cotto fight were off:

29% had thought Mosley would win by decision, while 26.6% had it for Cotto by decision.

Most of those who participated in the poll had it spot on in the Calzaghe-Kessler fight:

49.1% voted for Calzaghe by decision. 12.8% thought he would KO Kessler.

13.6% of the votes were cast for Kessler winning by decision. 23.1 % had it for Kessler by KO.

To me, from what I HAVE seen now, I think Cotto/Mosley could have gone either way.

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To me, from what I HAVE seen now, I think Cotto/Mosley could have gone either way.

Yup. It's another one of those fights that invites the subjective. The punchstats are that Mosley landed more jabs while Cotto landed more heavy punches. All told they landed the exact same amount of punches (uncanny!) That leaves the observer--and the judges themselves--having to weigh-in one's preferences on matters as ring generalship, effective offense, etc...

The poll was off only in the sense of the official result. That the poll itself was close also is an uncanny foreboding of how close the fight eventually unfolded. (29% and 26.6% are close because there were very few respondents, thus a single vote has a larger impact than it would have were there more respondents).

[2501]

looks like the poll reflects what the majority wishes would happen.

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looks like the poll reflects what the majority wishes would happen.

On both sides? A variance of 1.9% is close, I think. That is: 36.4% think (or, wish?) Mayweather wins by decision; 34.5% think (or, wish?) Hatton takes this through KO.

Significantly, the votes also reflect the styles of the protagonists...I think.

[2501]

.I think.

or wish??????