Comments Thread For: Photo: Leo Santa Cruz-Abner Mares Scorecards

[Ahmed_Ismail]

I didn't see 117-111 kinda fight, I thought Santa Cruz was more effective overall but it took him 3-4 rounds to become more effective, I think the better man won but I wouldn't have had a problem with a draw, the 114-114 scorecard wasn't too off as the commentators made it seem.

There was however a lot of holding and clinching from Mares andit made the fight very ugly at some points, I think there were at least 5 intentional clinches per round initiated by Mares and to me this is kinda excessive, would like to see a rematch with a stricter judge that would warn Mares in the early rounds about clinching and if needed take a point away.

[BOXEO _]

Judges stink out the house

like always

[daggum]

I didn't see 117-111 kinda fight, I thought Santa Cruz was more effective overall but it took him 3-4 rounds to become more effective, I think the better man won but I wouldn't have had a problem with a draw, the 114-114 scorecard wasn't too off as the commentators made it seem.

There was however a lot of holding and clinching from Mares andit made the fight very ugly at some points, I think there were at least 5 intentional clinches per round initiated by Mares and to me this is kinda excessive, would like to see a rematch with a stricter judge that would warn Mares in the early rounds about clinching and if needed take a point away.

mares trained with ward's trainer so its no surprise he clinched and launched himself forward in order to smother his opponent and not let him throw punches. also jack reiss was the ref who has been ward's ref a couple times without ever punishing ward for all the blatant cheating. everything was setup in mares' favor and he still lost. what a bum.

[From Russia]

I had 8-4 to lsc, but it could be 7-5 easily. Mares won early 4 rounds and than gassed. Surprisingly LSC was outboxing Abner and landing clean punches, all that wrestling didnt help Mares, but just made him tired and punches that he was landindg at close range were not clean...

[bojangles1987]

That 114-114 card is ridiculous. Yes, the rounds were competitive but Santa Cruz was clearly winning the majority of them.

[1believer]

I don't understand how anyone can say a draw is fair. Leo clearly won this, Mares did not land nowhere near as many clean blows and he was holding and hitting a lot of the time too. This is from someone who thought he would win too.

Cruz Mares
71/336 jabs 7/194
302/721 power 220/786
373/1057 total 227/980
35% connect % 23%


7 jabs

[M Bison]

Draw was the best decision. The other two must have shades on sipping on piņa coladas doing the right. I see no way you give Leo the last 2 rounds, especially the 12th.

Agreed, Leo's work was very sloppy and pitty patty type of punches that had little to no effect on Mares.
Terrible score card to have it so wide 117 111 lmao

[wlliam]

All these LSC fans came out from hiding..how long has it been? Seems to me the judges wer.ent scoring enough of the inside work, moreso the cleaner punches from range but 117-111?? LSCs reach was the difference in the fight thoughh..Mares needed some Pac type footwork to beat that