So what exactly won Canelo the fight???

[New England]

Canela is a Mexican fighting in Texas, it's silly to think he won't get the decision every time.
ODLH all but made it clear the whole promotion who was going to win.
The only way for Trout to win was by KO and he's not that type of fighter.
The best Canelo did last night was earn a draw IMO. I don't know how they had those wide scores for a guy that took multiple rounds off and barely threw the whole fight it seemed.

the wide cards for either guy were a joke. the fight was close.

[B-Bomber]

The fight was close, no doubt about it.

I cannot call it a blatant robbery or anything of the sort.

The open scorecards though were ridicolous, and in my opinion made the fight stink by denying Trout any hope to ever win without a K.O. by round 8th.

[Doctor_Tenma]

Trout's offense was more built around finding an escape route as oppose to mounting on an effective attack, even when he came forward his weight was on the back foot, jus' ready to pull back. I know I ain't the only one who saw this. His jab was ineffective as well, he was punching from too far out, or Canelo was weaving them. Trout's style is venom, but very unappealing to me, kind of urks me how he doesn't step into his punches. The fight was still very close, I didn't score it, gonna re-watch but I felt Canelo took it though, especially with the knock down.

[The Gambler1981]

the wide cards for either guy were a joke. the fight was close.

I think you can reasonably have it wide, if you liked what one guy was doing you were going to like him in a lot of the close rounds and your score would reflect that.

A close fight can have a wide score and still be close, all depends on who you gave the close rounds to which can all go to the same guy logically but don't have to.

It is the flaw of using scoring to determine the closeness of the fight~

[croz]

fight in a nut shell

[-MAKAVELLI-]

i have to rewatch and score it but my initial feel was it was a draw...in a weird fight, Canelo controlled the fight while getting outworked


wasn't a fan of how he cruised towards the end...not sure if that was because he knew if was ahead or if he was gassed