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Seriously. A lot of people on here thought Hopkins beat Calzaghe, Dirrell beat Froch, JMM beat Pacquiao, etc. But everybody here thinks Williams beat Martinez. There's a certain stereotype it seems that only certain fighters are clean/effective punchers while backing up/boxing, and I know a lot of people like Paul Williams, but the fighters should be held up to the same standard. As the great Floyd Mayweather Jr. once said, "WHICH ONE IS IT?!"
As for the fight, there really was no clear winner, if anybody though you'd have to give it to Martinez, because he clearly landed the harder more effective shots throughout the fight. I know Williams was more busier but in so many other fights the argument is used that workrate doesn't matter, clean/effective punching is the determining factor. Compubox says Williams landed more but Martinez had the harder shots. Just look at Williams' face after and then Martinez.
I just looked at the master scorecards, and noticed something huge. The judge Lynne Carter (wtf are women doing judging boxing anyway), scored the first round 10-9, I don't know why, even the old geezer scored it 10-10, Lederman who had the only reasonable score scored it for Martinez. Now, back to my point. HAD Lynne Carter scored the round for Martinez, the fight is a Majority Draw. Now, everybody who watched the fight knows the punch Williams landed on Martinez in the first round never landed, it should be ruled a slip. Had that been scored correctly, we have Lynne Carter's scorecard ruling the fight for Martinez. It would still be a draw because of the other 2 gophers.
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As for the fight, there really was no clear winner, if anybody though you'd have to give it to Martinez, because he clearly landed the harder more effective shots throughout the fight. I know Williams was more busier but in so many other fights the argument is used that workrate doesn't matter, clean/effective punching is the determining factor. Compubox says Williams landed more but Martinez had the harder shots. Just look at Williams' face after and then Martinez.
I just looked at the master scorecards, and noticed something huge. The judge Lynne Carter (wtf are women doing judging boxing anyway), scored the first round 10-9, I don't know why, even the old geezer scored it 10-10, Lederman who had the only reasonable score scored it for Martinez. Now, back to my point. HAD Lynne Carter scored the round for Martinez, the fight is a Majority Draw. Now, everybody who watched the fight knows the punch Williams landed on Martinez in the first round never landed, it should be ruled a slip. Had that been scored correctly, we have Lynne Carter's scorecard ruling the fight for Martinez. It would still be a draw because of the other 2 gophers.
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