For those who say Algieri won

[daggum]

algeri ruined boxing. it will never be the same. every fighter will fight like calzaghe furiously slapping at their opponent with grazing punches and racking up the points. the other guy will be forced to do the same in order to keep up because he knows real punches take more energy and score the same amount of points. slap boxing has been born. sh-it just got real. at least less people will be injured. algeri saved lives.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

algeri ruined boxing. it will never be the same. every fighter will fight like calzaghe furiously slapping at their opponent with grazing punches and racking up the points. the other guy will be force to do the same in order to score his own points. slap boxing has been created. sh-it just got real.

Were those slaps that were snapping Provodnikov's head back?

[daggum]

Were those slaps that were snapping Provodnikov's head back?

those were rare but if we are just paying attention to clean solid connects then wouldn't ruslan win? or did algeri's combination of a lot of pulled punches that grazed ruslan along with a few solid connects overcome all of ruslan's hard punches? variety is the ****e of life and especially in boxing.

[Gigantes]

algeri ruined boxing. it will never be the same. every fighter will fight like calzaghe furiously slapping at their opponent with grazing punches and racking up the points. the other guy will be forced to do the same in order to keep up because he knows real punches take more energy and score the same amount of points. slap boxing has been born. sh-it just got real. at least less people will be injured. algeri saved lives.

slaps indeed.

feather fists timmy busted ruslan's easy open face pretty good.

Algeri, with all his "shots", did nothing to easy open ruslan's face, but Algeri's face, well...

[daggum]

slaps indeed.

feather fists timmy busted ruslan's easy open face pretty good.

Algeri, with all his "shots", did nothing to easy open ruslan's face, but Algeri's face, well...

that should how you how badly he was pulling his punches. the rules say clean effective punches and i don't count grazing punches that make little or no impact as clean or effective but boxing has become a semantics game and you can say anything to explain why your fav fighter won a fight then the opposite next week to explain why your other fav fighter also won.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

those were rare but if we are just paying attention to clean solid connects then wouldn't ruslan win? or did algeri's combination of a lot of pulled punches that grazed ruslan along with a few solid connects overcome all of ruslan's hard punches? variety is the ****e of life and especially in boxing.

Well they weren't rare at all. Provodnikov was getting his head snapped back in pretty much every round. Algieri is not a puncher and never will be so he's not going to hurt people, he has to use the tools that he has available to him and he did that effectively.

Provodnikov failed to impose his style on the fight. The only thing that was "rare" were his harder shots.

slaps indeed.

feather fists timmy busted ruslan's easy open face pretty good.

Algeri, with all his "shots", did nothing to easy open ruslan's face, but Algeri's face, well...

Boxing is scored round by round. Not only facial damage caused in 1 round out of a 12 round fight.

[daggum]

Well they weren't rare at all. Provodnikov was getting his head snapped back in pretty much every round. Algieri is not a puncher and never will be so he's not going to hurt people, he has to use the tools that he has available to him and he did that effectively.

Provodnikov failed to impose his style on the fight. The only thing that was "rare" were his harder shots.



Boxing is scored round by round. Not only facial damage caused in 1 round out of a 12 round fight.

yet when hopkins made calzaghe miss all his pathetic slaps and hit him cleanly over and over it was calzaghe who was imposing his fight. so strange. ruslan actually got algeri on the ropes and landed clean shots. calzaghe didn't. yet it was calzaghe imposing his fight and not ruslan. i think imposing their fight, making the fight, fighting his fight= i have no actual reason why this guy won but i need to say something to explain it.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

yet when hopkins made calzaghe miss all his pathetic slaps and hit him cleanly over and over it was calzaghe who was imposing his fight. so strange. ruslan actually got algeri on the ropes and landed clean shots. calzaghe didn't. yet it was calzaghe imposing his fight and not ruslan. i think imposing their fight, making the fight, fighting his fight= i have no actual reason why this guy won but i need to say something to explain it.

Not every fight is the same. Comparing everything to Hopkins-Calzaghe is quite one dimensional and shows no real insight.

You have a fetish for punchers. That much is obvious. You aren't alone on this site.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

yet when hopkins made calzaghe miss all his pathetic slaps and hit him cleanly over and over it was calzaghe who was imposing his fight. so strange. ruslan actually got algeri on the ropes and landed clean shots. calzaghe didn't. yet it was calzaghe imposing his fight and not ruslan. i think imposing their fight, making the fight, fighting his fight= i have no actual reason why this guy won but i need to say something to explain it.

I agree with you. That's not the reason why I had Algieri winning. It was the numerous punches he bounced off Provodnikov's head. He outboxed him AND outlanded him, plain and simple. The punches weren't damaging because Algieri is not a damaging puncher.

I don't discriminate against fighters because they weren't born with the ability to take someone out with one shot or even hurt someone badly.

[Shad0wB0xer]

Let's take Pacquiao vs Marquez 3

Why did Marquez lose that fight. Because Manny outlanded and outworked him. Now isn't that the same thing that's being said for Algieri, that he outlanded and outworked Ruslan?

So for those who cried about Marquez, why are those same people not giving it to Ruslan?

Pac was never floored by Marquez during their third fight.