How did you score theRahman-Toney fight?

[Ballagoal]

01. Round: 10-09 Rahman
02. Round: 10-09 Toney
03. Round: 10-09 Toney
04. Round: 10-09 Rahman
05. Round: 10-09 Rahman
06. Round: 10-09 Rahman
07. Round: 10-09 Toney
08. Round: 10-09 Toney
09. Round: 10-09 Rahman
10. Round: 10-09 Rahman
11. Round: 10-09 Rahman
12. Round: 10-09 Rahman

Total: 116-112 Rahman

[Mishra100]

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.

Compubox never seems to get it right in my opinion.

Who else counts kidney shots while in a clinch as a counted punch?

[!! Mr. Soprano]

OK Jim!
7 rounds to 5
115 to 113
in favor of Rahman

Jim!

[Yogi]

Compubox never seems to get it right in my opinion.

Even CompuBox's founder, Bob Canobbio, admits that there's a "margin of error" with that system and has "never said it was the be-all, end-all" to counting the exact number of punches thrown & landed.

I find it funny at times how people quote those numbers like they were registered by some kind if exact science, but people have to understand that the two people punching the keyboard are sharing the same computer (each operator is assigned one fighter or another), as well as only getting that one vantage point from it's location.

It's just a tool to give us fans a general ballpark figure of the punches landed & missed, and although interesting in it's way, it shouldn't be taken as factual information.

[marvdave]

I thought Rahman pulled out a close decision, but I also think this fight is unworthy of very much discussion. A gross underachiever against a grossly out of shape fat man. Pathetic that these two might be the best. I hear alot of people saying Boxers deserve automatic respect for stepping into the ring(which I agree they deserve respect) On the same token, shouldn't the fighters respect the ring and come in shape for a heavyweight title fight? I love Toney and understand he is HOF, but 237 was way out of line imo.

Rahman should have made this a clear cut victory, but he refused to stay outside. He fought Toney's fight. As for Blubber, if he was in any type of shape, he would have beaten Rahman easy.

oh well we'll try again to find the "next one"..maybe WK or Brewster can come up big

[Kid Achilles]

On the same token, shouldn't the fighters respect the ring and come in shape for a heavyweight title fight?

You're 100% correct. This is exactly what I've been saying about Toney all along.

[benjamin2004]

Too boring to score.

[the_truth_1984]

Rahman clearly won the fight.The problem was that he didn't win a lot of rounds big even though he won them and it gave the judges a chance to give them to Toney.I had it 118-111 Rahman which may have been a bit generous to Rock but he was outworking Toney throughout.

[GunStar]

Both men landed around the same. Fact is Toney landed the more effective punches. End of story. Toney won the fight.