RingTV's Tom Gray:
Which is the same thing I said night of the fight.
But of course, you people clapped loud and shouted that Chino was robbed by Floyd despite the same tactics.
And of course, you default to Compubox here, yet say it was wrong when Manny lost to Floyd and ignored it when it had Keef clearly outlanding Manny.
See, you guys are too transparent now. It's easy to expose your agenda. We're going to see it again with Spence - you won't give Spence any credit even if he does dominate, because you won't ever accept when Manny takes an L or should have.
Every fight is different but your paramount criteria for scoring should always be clean effective punching. Pretty obvious. However, when you have a mauling, messy fight, like Pacquiao-Horn was, you need to look elsewhere and I default to ring generalship. In the early rounds; Horn’s lateral movement, broken rhythm, feints and angles were giving Pacquiao fits. Horn was controlling distance and I personally felt he was more effective in the first half. Pacquiao was at his best at long range but he got nothing done up-close. Horn punched with his free hand in clinches. Pacquiao didn’t. Horn went to the body. Pacquiao didn’t. Horn belabored his opponent against the ropes. Pacquiao didn’t. Did CompuBox credit Horn for roughing Pacquiao up and making a strong physical impression? You decide. And if you want to ***** that Horn was dirty, then go out and get some gardening done because boxing isn’t for you. This is full contact combat and you do what you have to do to win. The referee polices a fight, not a judge. You don’t penalize Horn because you think poor Manny is having a hard time. If we adopted that policy, Ricky Hatton would never have won a fight.
But of course, you people clapped loud and shouted that Chino was robbed by Floyd despite the same tactics.
And of course, you default to Compubox here, yet say it was wrong when Manny lost to Floyd and ignored it when it had Keef clearly outlanding Manny.
See, you guys are too transparent now. It's easy to expose your agenda. We're going to see it again with Spence - you won't give Spence any credit even if he does dominate, because you won't ever accept when Manny takes an L or should have.
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