Comments Thread For: Murat Gassiev Drops, Wins Split Nod Over Lebedev For IBF Belt

[j0zef]

Haven't seen it yet, but reading this thread after another fight recap is very interesting. The review said that Lebedev badly gassed after 6th and couldn't land anything besides the jabs Roach said to throw. Now in this thread most are saying he got robbed.. Can't wait to watch this later.

[BrometheusBob.]

Looks like the judges forgot to add in the bonus points Lebedev is supposed to get for being champion

Tough fight, I had it 7-5 for Lebedev (114-113 w/ the KD) but a bunch of those rounds were close.

[smellard]

Robbery of the year? I guess you didn't watch Kovalev vs Ward huh

The worst robbery I've every seen is Chudinov - Sturm II. It was in this February. Actually it wasn't a robbery, it was an organized crime.

[Humean]

This is BoxingScene.

Every close fight is a robbery.

Yeah every time a decision goes against their favourite in the fight, or against how they scored it, it is always a robbery.

I edged it to Gassiev but close fight, the kid is much too static and spent way too much time just trailing Lebedev around the ring. Despite his obvious power Usyk would make him look basic.

Yeah Gassiev would only have slightly more than a punchers chance against Usyk.

[John Locke]

I had it 8-4, 115-112 for Lebedev, he clearly won the fight

[NaijaD]

I edged it to Gassiev but close fight, the kid is much too static and spent way too much time just trailing Lebedev around the ring. Despite his obvious power Usyk would make him look basic.

Yeah I thought he edged it but he could and should have been more dominant with the advantages he had in the fight, he really needs to learn to cut off the ring and move his head. He has a great chin but it's not an excuse to be so easy to hit. A lot of the time he waits too long to get his shots off, that was probably the most frustrating thing about him tonight.

I'm not interested in a fight between him and Usyk yet, he's tailor made for him at the moment.

[Shpacman]

Lomachenko is Ukrainian NOT Russian !

Who cares
He speaks Russian with less accent than many Russians and can't speak Ukrainian at all. So..

[MDPopescu]

That's what the BoxingScene folks had too. I had it same score but the other way. 116 - 111/112 seems a little too wide to me but I'm glad I watched that.

Joseph Pasquale 112-116, Steve Weisfeld 113-114 for Gassiev...

Both judges are from the U.S.

[Shpacman]

Here you are wrong again.GGG is from Central Asian country called Kazakhstan.

Who cares
"Russians" or "Eastern Europeans" are the common names for the post-Soviet countries.

[Porter's Dad]

Good fight. Gassiev has a lot to work on but some good tools and will be a fun fighter.