Comments Thread For: ESPN2 Friday Night Fights "Tyson Is Back" Early Results

[mshap]

thought Mendez won by 2-3 points -- but agree that Atlas's scoring has lately been ridiculous at times -- he had Mendez almost pitching a shutout even though the total punch numbers were pretty close and Mendez threw far fewer punches -- I agree with him that the general public and many judges miss a lot of the subtle effectiveness of guys like Mendez who actually outfought Usmanne while he was on the ropes most of the time and totally controlled the fight at a distance -- there's such a thing as EFFECTIVE aggression, not just moving forward and throwing punches while the other guys lands the cleaner shots -- judges need to be trained to see this to cut down on bad scoring

[Lorily]

thought Mendez won by 2-3 points -- but agree that Atlas's scoring has lately been ridiculous at times -- he had Mendez almost pitching a shutout even though the total punch numbers were pretty close and Mendez threw far fewer punches -- I agree with him that the general public and many judges miss a lot of the subtle effectiveness of guys like Mendez who actually outfought Usmanne while he was on the ropes most of the time and totally controlled the fight at a distance -- there's such a thing as EFFECTIVE aggression, not just moving forward and throwing punches while the other guys lands the cleaner shots -- judges need to be trained to see this to cut down on bad scoring

I have to agree with you on your points, however sometimes (as bad as this sounds) I love when the judges and fans at home are not in agreement with Teddy's BS. His bias needs to be checked BIG TIME. And Joe's nuthugging of Teddy and the condescending attitude to the FB fans who vote in their polls is out of control IMO.

[kozone]

He wasn't on tv...

I know I was looking forward to watching him fight!!
I had to box rec it just to see the result