Comments Thread For: Carl Frampton Beats Leo Santa Cruz, Wins WBA Belt in a War

[Bronx2245]

U crazy. When the fighter who lose (leo) says it coulda been a draw, you know he knows he lost

I'm cool with the decision, I just saw it like the Italian Judge! It was a great fight! Better than Thurman vs. Porter! Just a notch below Vargas vs. Salido! Definitely worthy of a rematch!

[MDPopescu]

10 and 11 were clearly Leo rounds, the 12th was a lot closer but I thought Leo edged it, he finished the round stronger. Not sure I can go with your theory of the judges intentions when scoring it to Frampton, maybe he just thought Carl won the round?

... while the other two judges both gave Leo the 12th round?

[PunchyPotorff]

I don't need no optometrist because I could see clearly Santa Cruz was outpointing him after the middle rounds, even the british commentators agreed on that. The draw was crazy? No it wasn't, crazy was the 117-110 card, then we wonder why casuals care less about boxing when they see things like these

Leo's punches weren't as accurate overall, and Frampton's defense was much better. Both lost some of their accuracy as the bout played out, but Leo's was definitely worse.

[bboy80]

Said it would be close prior to the fight. However Frampton did better then I anticipated. Ill have to give him alot more credit in the future.

[eternalfighter]

This was a good competitive and even fight even according to the punch stats. I give alot of credit to Frampton for holding his own and giving as good as he got but I dont think he took the title as he was the challenger. You have to take the title and this fight was just too close. I think in most cases Mexican or of Mexican descent fighters in the U.S need a ko because the judges will go against them in close and even fights even if they are the champs and even against foreign fighters.

[kilojay505]

Robbery of the year Frampton won 6 rds at best if you scored the 12th even but Frampton clearly lost the 12th rd as he initiated 3 clintches. Santa Cruz was also the champ so Frampton should have had to win rds in a dominating fashion

[HarvardBlue]

The judges got it right. A draw would have been embarrassing despite what the Italian judge thought. Frampton had a good game plan. I didn't think he would be able to match LSC's work rate but he did. My one knock on LSC is he does the same thing every time. That will work if you're fighting a stationary target but Frampton changed his attack constantly. The only time LSC got the best of him was when he stayed in the pocket. Even then he did enough to make the rounds close. Frampton is on a different level than the opposition LSC was used to facing. A rematch will be interesting because I think LSC will do a lot better but if I'm Frampton I would enjoy this win and go on to bigger and better fights.

[nycsmooth]

IMO a clear victory 4 Carl... the judge Guido that called it a draw was way off base still a very entertaining fight & Frampton may look 4 better pay days... already rumors of him fighting Rico, not right away but he won't beat Rigo...

[BestPR]

Lee Selby beats Frampton, LSC, and any of these three guys will easily beat Gary Russell jr.

[BestPR]

This was a good competitive and even fight even according to the punch stats. I give alot of credit to Frampton for holding his own and giving as good as he got but I dont think he took the title as he was the challenger. You have to take the title and this fight was just too close. I think in most cases Mexican or of Mexican descent fighters in the U.S need a ko because the judges will go against them in close and even fights even if they are the champs and even against foreign fighters.

I definitely can agree with you on this.