How did you score theRahman-Toney fight?

[blockhead]

rahman didnt win any of the middle rounds i have no idea how hbo had rahman winning those rounds, when he was getting hit by everything that toney threw.

[Piggu]

I scored it for Rahman but it might have just been that I was hoping he would win.

Some of the rounds were close.

115-113

[LondonRingRules]

How did I score it?

Flyyygrrrl filled her shorts and was DQed and Boozo passed out for the drunk count!

[realheavyhands]

toney won the boxing match barely ...toney was LURING rahman to the ropes the entire fight which made it look like rahman was backing him up..rahman edged out the fight with his strength and weight and conditioning so a draw was a good call..hbo is the most biased broadcast I've ever seen..it was obvious they didn't want toney to win..

[Xcel]

I think it was Rahman winning by a slim margin, but i can very easily see how it was scored a draw or if someone feels Toney won.

[GreasdLightning]

I was disappointed in this fight.
Nothing spectacular.
Rahman either knows how to take a hit, or tony hits like a *****... he did eat some right hooks.

To be honest i wanted to see tony win, but he was dumb and didnt do anything but spar and eat pizza rolls before this fight.

[Deeznuts]

I can't see how anyone would score it for Toney or a draw. Rahman was clearly the busier fighter. He hit Toney with some good rights and worked him all the way to the end. Rahman is no champion though he was defending Toney and making excuses on why Toney didn't win, that was a joke.

That's one thing I don't get on how judges score fights. Especially when Toney fights. In the Jirov fight, Jirov was outworking him in the beginning but by the scorecards you would think it was a complete shutout.

[Mishra100]

I can't see how anyone would score it for Toney or a draw. Rahman was clearly the busier fighter. He hit Toney with some good rights and worked him all the way to the end. Rahman is no champion though he was defending Toney and making excuses on why Toney didn't win, that was a joke.

That's one thing I don't get on how judges score fights. Especially when Toney fights. In the Jirov fight, Jirov was outworking him in the beginning but by the scorecards you would think it was a complete shutout.

I agree with what you said. Don't you think that this looked a lot like the Taylor/Hopkins fights?

[LondonRingRules]

I agree with what you said. Don't you think that this looked a lot like the Taylor/Hopkins fights?

No, Taylor struggled against the awkward Hop style and Hop was a match for Taylor's strength and kept setting traps. Rahman never struggled. He landed more punches than credited for, kept punching Toney into the ropes, made him miss and look like a clubfighter, and easily matched or exceeded Toney's inside work where he also roughed him up.

Tony looked like Tony Galento in there, except Galento was a geniune KO threat. Toney can't bust his way out of his KFC bucket to save his life.

[mokele]

Rahman by a comfortable margin

I was rooting for Toney, sort of, because of his skill level, but his conditioning was so bad that I couldn't root for him wholeheartedly. I thought that Rahman won 6 or 7 rounds, Toney maybe 2 rounds with the other 3 or 4 rounds even. Rahman threw a lot more and I thought that he landed more than compubox gave him. He was the aggressor most of the time and didn't do much clinching, only a little more than Toney. A lot of his punches landed on Toney's arms, shoulders, sides, etc. Rahman landed few clean punches other than jabs, and that's why 2 of the judges didn't see him winning most of the rounds. It was a disappointing fight and will be remembered as a championship fight in an era with no really good heavyweights around.