Lets hear your opinions

[MartinJol]

It looks like boxing these days tend to give the aggressor a slight edge in scoring. Regardless of whether or not its effective. My point being, in fights that are relativley close that involves a contrasts of styles it seems that the tactical/defensive/counterpuncher are always on the wrong end of the stick.. take for example last night

more examples..

Peter v Toney 1
Hatton v Collazo
Taylor V Spinks

in all 4 of these fights.. the loser landed more clean shots and appared to have won the majority of the rounds. They all seemed to be controlling the fight and IMO all 4 should have won. I'm not just limiting it to these fights.. im only using them as an example.

the list could go on and on.

8/10 times the loser in a close or controversial decision of a fight with contrasting styles.. its the so called aggressive fighter that wins.. Please lets here some examples of the opposite.

The problem lies in the sport. Appreciating the talent of a tactical fighter is on the decline. For instance.. Andre Berto and Khan get all the hooha due to their styles where as a Lamont Peterson is not getting anywhere near the exposure he deserves.

sorry if this makes no sense...

[ИATAS]

Like I said in a different thread, landing clean punches is not the only criteria to score a fight. Effective Aggression, Defense, Ring Generalship, Clean and Hard Punching. Judging by these categories, Pacman won (imo) 6 rounds, Marquez won 6, the knockdown being the difference.

[T-97]

Depends, when a round is close usually it seems like the more agressive guy has won cause he has forced the fight so he gets it, even if he should not. The collonzo hatton fight is not a case of this (i had it scored to Ricky) but i think teh De La Hoya-Sturm fight is a good example of this tendancy in scoring. But the guy that is not agressive needs to make sure he does enough to win the rounds, all Sturm really did was use his jab which meant the judges (that may or may not have been biased for oscar) could score close rounds to him cause of his agressivness.