Comments Thread For: Sorry, But Close Fight in Scotland Doesn't Register on Robbery Scale

[✔ (Low- )]

Lyle sounds like a not only a flat earther, but a JT satchel schwanger as well.

[R.I.P Chico]

Looks like the MTK boys have got the journalists on the payroll aswell as the judges.

[Madison Boxing]

who the hell wrote this crap.... watch the damn fight it was a robbery, it was so bad the speaker of house of commons wants to discuss it with the sports minister.

[Ropeydope]

The only thing this writer makes a case for is his own myopic scoring. Taylor wasn’t landing. Catterall did a great job of neutralizing his offense throughout. I am not a fan of that style, but Taylor looks stymied and failed to get any offense going. He kept walking straight onto punches and woofing air. No way I could give him 6 rounds. I felt 4 was being generous to the home town hero.

[Blond Beast]

It seems more like a purposely contraire headline and view to work on his debating skills and drive discourse. Part of the business I guess.
My bother and I figured Taylor would get the screw in but maybe as draw. To get the win out of the deal was a real stretch, but nobody can be shocked that it happened. I always though Taylor was overrated. A guy with 19 fights from Scotland on the P4P list is already worth investigating on precedent alone.
He kept ducking into his opponents 1-2. He absorbed the cleaver punches and was visibly more marked up. It was ugly wrestling on both parts but I saw it mutual in that aspect. Taylor looked a bit stringy and his legs never looked strong.
I feel really bad for Catterral. This could ruin him. Taylor will most likely blame the weight cut, vacate and jump up in weight. Put some distance between the stink. Get a big pay day against a top guy even if he loses. He knows he can lose now, might as well get paid.
I wasent a Taylor fan. I’m less now. Still he has a chance to be the underdog now ( if he moves up ) and shock the world. That’s what he needs to do to credit from me.

[Raggamuffin]

Who said the fight was close, ****en Lyle!!!???

[Greenfield02]

Lyle has always been fool of it.... Most of his stories you always have to take with a grain of salt, and yet he has his fan boys on here who think he's good.

[Willowthewisp]

Knockdown in round 8 -> 10-8 . Point deduct in round 11 (and giving Taylor the round still) -> 9-9.

Taylor would have to have won 7 rounds out of the other 10 for a win of 114-112.

Or to look at it another way, you can only have given Catterall 3 out of the other 10 rounds to see a Taylor victory. I have an incredibly hard time believing anyone could have done that given the first six rounds of the fight. It wasn't a close fight.

[edgarg]

Fitsimmons is one of the worst writers on this site, no idea why he gets paid for this, and he clearly doesn't understand a 10 point scoring system on a round by round basis. He is actually condoning corruption in this latest piece of tripe...

It's a kind of charity by the site to pay him for his rubbish. I used to like his breezy style but he's benn well over the top for a long time now. The site needs another writer, more factual and less opinionated..

[edgarg]

I DID write something, when there ere only a couple or thre comments; and that was- "Bad Left Hook had it 114-111 for Catterall", and were generous in 2-3 rounds. This is nowhere to be seen so I assume that BoxingScene, ,jealous of my mentioning another site, deleted it.