Comments Thread For: CompuBox Stats: Martinez Outworks Magdaleno To Win

[Tomasio]

Magdaleno only outlanded Martinez in 3 rounds & Martinez threw 234 more punches & landed 34 More & landed the harder & more significant punches & scored a knock down, so that just gives more credibility for Martinez victory.. I just watched it again & have no idea how judge Robert Hoyle saw it 116-111 for Magdaleno, other than he's also from Las Vegas just like Magdaleno.. Some good old home cooking in China on Hoyle's part!

[cabalas]

Magdaleno only outlanded Martinez in 3 rounds & Martinez threw 234 more punches & landed 34 More & landed the harder & more significant punches & scored a knock down, so that just gives more credibility for Martinez victory.. I just watched it again & have no idea how judge Robert Hoyle saw it 116-111 for Magdaleno, other than he's also from Las Vegas just like Magdaleno.. Some good old home cooking in China on Hoyle's part!

While using compubox statistics may help understand better what happened in a fight (provided the guys counting the punches are accurate enough), that still doesn't take the subjectivity in judging. In this fight Mtz-Magdaleno allegedly there was a difference of 34 more total punches (and 23 more power punches) landed by Roman and some people still saw Diego as the victor (including one judge). In the fight between Viloria-Estrada, according to same compubox in same Macau, the mex outlanded Brian by 416-186=230 more total punches (and by 361-140=221 power punches). That is more than the double and Estrada also outlanded Viloria every single round (12 rounds out of 12) besides throwing 964-613=351 more total punches and 756-360=396 more power punches (again more than double). And even with such big dominance one judge outrageously gave the fight to Viloria. In fact, there was a moment that the team of Estrada thought that the judges were going to rob him depriving him from his well deserved victory. It has been seen that sometimes an organization or a promoter have the means to spoil reality. They can keep winning a boxer regardless of his performance.

[Levity]

I thought Martinez fairly won a close fight, and these numbers reflect what I saw.

When fighters have benefitted from poor judging in the past, as Martinez did against Burgos, people often inappropriately use words like ‘robbery’ to describe the results of close bouts such fighters have thereafter, as if blindlessly extrapolating what occured in one bout to what occured in another bout.