Comments Thread For: N'Dam Upsets Murata, Wins Title by Controversial Split Decision

[Vegemil]

If you read the report instead of going on an ignorant rant you could see that 1 hispanic and 1 canadian gave it to N'dam

and the other hispanic gave it to Murata

Oh **** I didn't realize that if you're a hispanic living in AMERICA and are an AMERICAN judge you also live in your own hispanic country at the same time.

[Loque-san]

One of the worst robberies I have seen in years. Absolutely disgusting.

Murata dropped N'dam, hurt him multiple times with hard straight right hands, landed all the clean punches and controlled the tempo of the fight. N'dam struggled to land anythinng clean and was in survival mode after round 6. No way he won more than 2-3 rounds. A strong contender for robbery of the year.

[ceylon mooney]

CLARIFICATION:

n'dam did not win the WBA middleweight title.

he won the "regular" belt, which means he is DEFINITELY NOT the WBA champ but is in line to fight him.

as the article mentions, the WBA middleweight champ is gennady golovkin.

[Connor MacLeod]

This was far worse than both those fights. You are right that Murata wasn't active enough, he has slow feet and does almost nothing from the outside whilst N'Dam was consistently throwing but the quality of punches from Murata were consistently better and N'Dam was getting hurt a lot from them. N'Dam never fully recovered from the knockdown in round 4, he gave his usual gutsy performance but he wasn't winning the rounds. I rarely think a fight is a robbery but this was one of the worst i've ever seen.

When you talk about quality I agree N'dam was hitting gloves and arms a hell of a lot but he would also get jabs between Muratas guard and he was landing that scuffing right hand round the side quite often. Now as I said these punches were not very good quality, but despite the power advantage in Muratas shots he wasn't throwing or landing anywhere near as many punches as N'dam .

Do you think Murata would have thrown so few punches in an "away" title fight? I believe he behaved like its in the bag because hes a gold medalist fighting in his hometown.

Did you notice the crowd/corner faces/reactions in the later rounds?? Those people looked like they thought the local hero was losing and needing a ko.

[daggum]

ndam was just too slick. people talking about punches lol. boxing is not about punches or quality of punches. did you knock out the slickster? no. no you did not. therefore you lost. stop crying.

[trippleupper]

Murata vs. N'Dam

When you talk about quality I agree N'dam was hitting gloves and arms a hell of a lot but he would also get jabs between Muratas guard and he was landing that scuffing right hand round the side quite often. Now as I said these punches were not very good quality, but despite the power advantage in Muratas shots he wasn't throwing or landing anywhere near as many punches as N'dam .

Do you think Murata would have thrown so few punches in an "away" title fight? I believe he behaved like its in the bag because hes a gold medalist fighting in his hometown.

Did you notice the crowd/corner faces/reactions in the later rounds?? Those people looked like they thought the local hero was losing and needing a ko.

I think you have some good points. I had Murata winning 114-113. Murata didn't throw enough punches and was too careful with his high-guard defense. If he had gone for it with the heart of a scrappy challenger (not easy to do once you've got a million dollar signing bonus) -- especially once he had N'Dam hurt -- would he have been able to take him out? We'll never know.

That said, I still don't think N'Dam did enough to win.

[Canelo and GGG]

ndam was just too slick. people talking about punches lol. boxing is not about punches or quality of punches. did you knock out the slickster? no. no you did not. therefore you lost. stop crying.

you just decribbed Floyds carrere LMAO

[REMOVE SHARK 55]

He didn't, he clearly lost 10 rounds, arguably 11.

He clearly won & is the holder of another piece of crap ABC trinket. It's in black & white, if you backed against Ndam, you would've lost your money. Perception is that Ndam lost, reality is that he won.

[Golden Boi 360]

Oh **** I didn't realize that if you're a hispanic living in AMERICA and are an AMERICAN judge you also live in your own hispanic country at the same time.

But why single out the hispanic judge when one Canadian also gave it to N'dam?

[Connor MacLeod]

ndam was just too slick. people talking about punches lol. boxing is not about punches or quality of punches. did you knock out the slickster? no. no you did not. therefore you lost. stop crying.

Quality is all well and good but the japanese kid was so buisy covering up for such extended periods that it limited
his offense.

And lets give N'dam some credit. he made Murata shell up
for a half minute at a time by treating him like a walking heavybag.