Provodnikov admits Bradley beats him

[daggum]

ok just watched it again

ruslan clearly wins round 1,2,6,11, and 12. rounds 7 and 10 are close. ruslan lands harder cleaner punches. bradley shoe-shines. make your own judgement about that...

round 1 bradley almost certainly would have went down but ruslan lightly touches him while he's staggering forward so the ref rules it a slip. whatever.

round 2 ruslan hits bradley with a left hook and bradley completely falls into the ropes. "no possible way he would have stayed up without them." -gravity 10-8 round

round 6 ruslan hits bradley with another left hook and bradley falls into the ropes and actually lands on the bottom rope on his butt to avoid going down. clear knockdown! 10-8 round

round 12 obviously 10-8

so that's 5 clear rounds and 3 without a doubt knockdowns that the ref "missed". even without the ghost push knockdown ruslan wins. closest it could possibly be if you love bradley and give him every benefit of the doubt available to him in this universe is 113-112 ruslan

[Mayweather41-0]

radiorahim gives good interviews. I had Bradley winning this fight 115-113.

[torosboxing75]

The last time I watched the fight I scored the first knock down and still had Bradley winning by one point. Provodnikov just let him put way to many rounds in the bank.

[US Dirk Killer]

Man, if you think the first 2 was a 10-8 round, Round 3 was a 10-7.
Bradley got rocked those rounds but still fought back and was visibly in there.
He landed and threw the same amount if not more than Ruslan.
Then in Round 3, Ruslan did absolutely nothing while getting his face cut up.... 2 punches out of 15 thrown... that is the definition of nothing

[Russian Crushin]

Simple. You want an extra point? Knock your opponent down. You don't want to lose a point? Stay on your damn feet.

Ruslan did that many times

But anyway, why should a round where a guy squeaks by to win it be worth just as much where the guy kicks his ass and dominates the round? You also never get an extra point, the opponent simply loses one. Judges can give 10-8 rounds whenever they want, but that is super rare, not sure why

[Hougigo]

Ruslan did that many times

But anyway, why should a round where a guy squeaks by to win it be worth just as much where the guy kicks his ass and dominates the round? You also never get an extra point, the opponent simply loses one. Judges can give 10-8 rounds whenever they want, but that is super rare, not sure why

Judges probably all have different criteria for it.
THey give out 10-8 rounds in MMA all the time, but that's because it'll be one guy on top pounding the other guy doing nothing for the whole 5 minutes

[Russian Crushin]

Judges probably all have different criteria for it.
THey give out 10-8 rounds in MMA all the time, but that's because it'll be one guy on top pounding the other guy doing nothing for the whole 5 minutes

They are discouraged from doing so, just like giving 10-10 even rounds. Not sure why, probably makes it harder to keep track of robbing the fighter

[Hougigo]

They are discouraged from doing so, just like giving 10-10 even rounds. Not sure why, probably makes it harder to keep track of robbing the fighter

It's rare that they do it... I mean, you might see one here or there with a 10-8 or a 10-10

[Hop]

As per the title of this thread, I dislike it when an athlete's humility is used against him. I've seen this all the time.

[Russian Crushin]

It's rare that they do it... I mean, you might see one here or there with a 10-8 or a 10-10

Its extremely rare. Nowadays if a ref thinks the round is even, he is told to just give it to someone. In Duran-Leonard 1, the three judges had a combined 19 rounds scored 10-10 even