HBOS Hack Job actually made people think that fight was close.

[Da Machine]

So only people who idioticlly scored it close actually scored it. This really is lala land.

[Baltimore]

I picked Ruslan before the fight and was rooting for him but I agree with last night's decision. I thought a draw or Lucas 7-5 is exactly what it should have been.

I agree with other posters who say that if you watched that fight without scoring after each round, then it looks like the judges messed up. Without scoring after each round it seems like Lucas was winning comfortably but with the 10 point scoring system Ruslan was making it a close fight.

Ruslan's amazing chin is the reason you guys have a problem when you think about it. Anyone else would have been floored on a lot of those Lucas shots, but Provo didn't go down and that's why he only lost the rounds 10-9 where as almost anyone else would have went down and lost those rounds 10-8.

[George Orwell]

it was a close fight, the only thing wrong with that HBO broadcast was the awfulness of Bernard Hopkins.

[joseph5620]

So only people who idioticlly scored it close actually scored it. This really is lala land.

Or maybe people who weren't swinging on Matthysse's nuts scored the fight.

[Da Machine]

Or maybe people who weren't swinging on Matthysse's nuts scored the fight.

More people swing off provos nuts then any otherfighter. He's always supposedly earning the draw or win after being thoroughly dismantled.

[MDPopescu]

... It's true that HBO-TR "crew" would have easily scored it a "draw"... because they score fights round by round with the 10-9 system...

But just look at the image bellow:

[Divine Hammer]

i wasn't watching hbo and i scored it a draw or 7-5 matthysse.

i felt matthysse won most of the first half and then the second half it was a lot of provo landing the much bigger shots that would actually move matthysse back and at times hurt him.

if provo was more active and let his hands go more i think he could have won it. it seemed like matthysse didn't react well to shots from ruslan. whereas ruslan ate up every single punch from matthysse like they were nothing.

[2120]

there is no way provo won the third round but of course leaderman scored it for him

[Da Machine]

there is no way provo won the third round but of course leaderman scored it for him

samewith the 10th.

[Mooshashi]

It's been said by others but Lucas' corner telling him he was up by 8 rounds was ridiculous. Exactly the wrong thing to tell a boxer...he'll coast from that point on.

Sounded like Gil Clancy telling Oscar to run the last three rounds vs Tito because he was ahead.