Comments Thread For: Chavez Jr. Tested, Wins Unpopular Decision Over Vera

[bbernbox]

This may be the one fight that everyone on boxingscene is in 100% agreement that Vera should have gotten the victory.

nah the one fight people were all in agreement about was burns-beltran being a robbery. even burns own promoter knew he lost the fight. but youre right, most people saw this for vera.

[Ravens Fan]

Here is the thing. Andy Lee fought the wrong fight. Vera has a hard head and Lee got ktfo fighting Vera's fight. Lee in the rematch easily outboxed Lee by fighting his own fight.

Vera pushed the issue early against Chavez, but in the end, he was the one backing up. His punches lost steam and it was probably just like he said. He never fought above 170 lbs.

Junior knew that he couldn't trade with Vera. Vera loves a good scrap. Junior moved, gave Vera angles until he thought that it was safe to trade. Smart. Vera had a big chance, and he lost it...possibly through no fault of his own.

I don't condone what Junior did with the multiple weight issues that were finally agreed upon. That disgusted me, but Junior won make no mistake about it. I couldn't give Vera 6 rounds, and on my card, but had a chance for a draw going into the 10th on my card.

Vera showed enough that I'll watch him until he retires.

You 100% wrong in my opinion the fight I watched Junior got easily dominated.

[Someone88]

Vera should have won, Chavez Jr shouldn't have gotten the win the judges were really reaching.

[prinzemanspopa]

The sport has reached a stage where a fairly significant portion of it's following actually view work rate - regardless of how totally ineffective it is - as the main criteria to scoring a fight.



Sad times.

[mshap]

horrible, disgraceful decision -- when one guy outlands the other by a 3-2 margin overall and in 8 f 10 rounds he can't lose by scores like that, which made it appear that it wasn't even a competitive fight -- all Chavez did in his post-fight is whine about non-existent low blows and imaginary head butts while claiming a phantom fractured hand as an excuse for his mostly awful performance -- said he would have stopped Vera very "soon" anyway but when? today? next Wednesday? -- this after he lost the last 3 rounds by consistently keeping out of harm's way -- basically backpedalled without attempting to throw anything for the last 3 rounds, running out the clock because he knew he couldn't lose on a decision -- of course he won't give Vera a deserved rematch -- his people have protected and coddled him his whole career, puffing him up as some sort of budding superstar -- last night they kept telling him what a great job he was doing between rounds despite his showing little in most of them -- was gassed after 6 rounds due to lack of training and eating too many donuts -- he didn't even try to win rounds the hard way by earning them because he knew that he'd get the decision no matter what....

[mshap]

The sport has reached a stage where a fairly significant portion of it's following actually view work rate - regardless of how totally ineffective it is - as the main criteria to scoring a fight.



Sad times.

if by "work rate" you mean outpunching your opponent by a 3-2 margin over 10 rounds, how is that supposed to be irrelevant in scoring a fight? -- it wasn't just that Vera outworked him, which he clearly did in at least 8 rounds but that he LANDED more punches in 8 rounds -- landing punches counts as "work rate" -- get it?

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The sport has reached a stage where a fairly significant portion of it's following actually view work rate - regardless of how totally ineffective it is - as the main criteria to scoring a fight.



Sad times.

Stop posting this everywhere it makes no god damn sense. If you land more punches and dont get dropped you're probably going to win that round. Stop acting like some boxing hipster.

[JamesEarl]

a Disgrace to boxing in Vera getting screwed

Vera won the fight and got ****d by the decision loss to the disgusting Chavez jr. Chavez's nothing career is over.

[prinzemanspopa]

if by "work rate" you mean outpunching your opponent by a 3-2 margin over 10 rounds, how is that supposed to be irrelevant in scoring a fight? -- it wasn't just that Vera outworked him, which he clearly did in at least 8 rounds but that he LANDED more punches in 8 rounds -- landing punches counts as "work rate" -- get it?

Thank you for acknowledging that you do factor in work rate with regards to scoring a fight. Are you 100% **** wrong? Of course. But at least your honest in your own ignorance/naivety.



Good boy.

Stop posting this everywhere it makes no god damn sense. If you land more punches and dont get dropped you're probably going to win that round. Stop acting like some boxing hipster.

Sorry lad, but the scoring criteria is not based on landing more punches - there is a difference between how a bout is scored in the professional game and how it's scored in the amateur game.




Merely pointing out the official scoring criteria - effective aggression, defense, ring generalship and clean, effective punching (you know hat that is, don't you?) - doesn't make you a hipster, just a boxing fan.

[insaneboxingfan]

TOP RANK? Where were you for Mayweather's last fight....they were going to rob him if Canelo had actually shown up to throw punches...this is about big name no promoter can be excluded.

I Totally agree with you. I said the same th8ng about mayweather Canelo they were definitely going to Rob Mayweather had canelo been more active. But Toprank Tends to do it in such a blatant way it leaves a nasty taste in your mouth afterward. Look at Pac vs Bradley. Atleast in vegas the other 2 judges realized they couldn't do it. These judges last night didnt give a ****