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It's one of those weird fights that for some reason annoys me. A bit like the Martinez/Cintron fight, Oscar/Mayweather fight, Morales/Maidana fight etc. They were clear wins for one of them and yet for very bizarre, strange, usually straight up ******ed, ignorant, biased fanboy opinions they say silly things like "Floyd hardly won that fight. Oscar could have been given that decision" or "Barrera won that fight! He should have gotten an extra point for a KD too" and "Martinez couldn't even beat Cintron. He sucks" or "Morales got totally robbed. He beat Maidana"
It's really like no one has watched any of the fights they're talking about. Mayweather won most rounds against Oscar. You could make a very strong case he won ten rounds, though it's more like 8-4. Ineffective fluuries that don't land, whilst you're also getting cleanly countered don't score.
Cintron got KTFO. Literally. Then he lost most rounds, whilst conceding two knock downs (one of those being a knock out). Just incredible.
Maidana won the first half of that fight in a whitewash. Clearly, easily, dominantly. He then won maybe half the remaining rounds. Morales fought like he hadn't in years and even hurt Maidana, but he clearly, clearly lost. Nostalgia is great, and I'm all for the old vet getting the upperhand, but when they don't win, they don't win. We can't change it by repeating it ad nauseum.
Marquez won the fight on a round by round basis clearly. Barrera shouldn't have been given a 10-8 round because even with the KD, he intentionally fouled which would have caused, at the very least, a one point deduction and he had lost every second of that whole round badly up to the very end. It would have ended up at best an even or if Barrera was really lucky a 10-9 round for him. Being that he had nearly a 10-8 round against him without the KD after being beaten up the whole round, a 10-10 seems much more likely given the circumstances.
Whatever the case, that one (we'll go with Barrera getting a 10-9 round) point discrepancy made no difference at all on any card. He would still have lost and deservedly so. I think we want to give Barrera more credit because it was his last great performance. He fought hard and went out like a warrior rather than just going for the paycheck as he did against Pac, but he just lost the fight. All of those guys just lost as much as we would have liked them to win one last great time.
It's really like no one has watched any of the fights they're talking about. Mayweather won most rounds against Oscar. You could make a very strong case he won ten rounds, though it's more like 8-4. Ineffective fluuries that don't land, whilst you're also getting cleanly countered don't score.
Cintron got KTFO. Literally. Then he lost most rounds, whilst conceding two knock downs (one of those being a knock out). Just incredible.
Maidana won the first half of that fight in a whitewash. Clearly, easily, dominantly. He then won maybe half the remaining rounds. Morales fought like he hadn't in years and even hurt Maidana, but he clearly, clearly lost. Nostalgia is great, and I'm all for the old vet getting the upperhand, but when they don't win, they don't win. We can't change it by repeating it ad nauseum.
Marquez won the fight on a round by round basis clearly. Barrera shouldn't have been given a 10-8 round because even with the KD, he intentionally fouled which would have caused, at the very least, a one point deduction and he had lost every second of that whole round badly up to the very end. It would have ended up at best an even or if Barrera was really lucky a 10-9 round for him. Being that he had nearly a 10-8 round against him without the KD after being beaten up the whole round, a 10-10 seems much more likely given the circumstances.
Whatever the case, that one (we'll go with Barrera getting a 10-9 round) point discrepancy made no difference at all on any card. He would still have lost and deservedly so. I think we want to give Barrera more credit because it was his last great performance. He fought hard and went out like a warrior rather than just going for the paycheck as he did against Pac, but he just lost the fight. All of those guys just lost as much as we would have liked them to win one last great time.
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