Activity and Coming Forward Does Not Equal Winning a Round!

[Bjl12]

But running away for 2min30sec of nearly every round does win rounds?

Ca$h don't run boy. He evades, counters, and makes monsters look amateur.

That's what you saw last night.

Some people think if you slap someone 100000 times a round while eating thudding power punches...the slapper wins the round as long as they come forward.

Excellent chin by Ggg, but Cash won last night and it's a shame he got robbed :/

[Bjl12]

But running away for 2min30sec of nearly every round does win rounds?

Margarito beat Pacquiao because margarito kept coming forward.

Get wrecked boy

[Eddy Current]

Hey in Cotto's last fight I'm pretty sure Cotto was backing up most of the fight. Why did he not lose? Bogus scoring if you ask me.

[Redd Foxx]

Pretty good point here.

The "ran the whole fight" defense is pretty ridiculous too. Apparently some people think a boxing match should consist of two guys taking turns punching each other in the face until one gets knocked out.

Agreed. "Running"? These idiots are just parroting the ****** shyt Golovkin said.

Though I had Golovkin winning, he's getting way too much credit from his hardcore fans. The quality of his punches was terrible. This wasn't a situation where you can't make an argument for Canelo.

[Johnny2x2x]

Rational and truthful thread here.

Better watch out, the outraged will be outraged that you are threatening their outrage.

[Eddy Current]

Agreed. "Running"? These idiots are just parroting the ****** shyt Golovkin said.

Though I had Golovkin winning, he's getting way too much credit from his hardcore fans. The quality of his punches was terrible. This wasn't a situation where you can't make an argument for Canelo.

Yeah, "defense" and "clean punches landed" are two of the criteria for judging a fight. Canelo was making GGG miss quite a bit throughout the fight, and tons of GGG's shots that did land did not land cleanly.
I think many people are not aware there are actual criteria the judges use to score a fight.

[JK1700]

People are really exposing themselves as HBO casual drones. Lederman says walking forward means you're winning so all the morons smile and agree with him. Seen so many "he was coming forward" posts. Well If that's all it takes then Floyd would have lost his last 15 fights

Yeah, Floyd would've been about 30-20

I don't know how anyone can listen to the HBO cheerleaders anymore.

[Eff Pandas]

HBO makes boxing fans believe whatever they say it seems. Had it scored like OP.

[Mike D]

Does that mean Pac should have won against Floyd... he was the aggressor right?????

Totally different. Manny was ineffective with his aggression. He was swinging mostly at air. Golovkin was effective. He bullied Canelo's ass. Walked his ass down. Landed more in the majority of the rounds and to top it off blew Canelo's ass out in total shots landed. And I didn't need f**king compubox to tell me that, either. All I needed was a pair of eyes.

[champion4ever]

The Narrative of this Fight for those that had GGG winning seems to be based on his Activity, Workrate and because he was the Fighter who appeared to be coming Forward.

The Problem with that Narrative is there's a difference between Effective Aggression where you're the Fighter coming forward and landing the more telling, harder punches and the Real Narrative of this Fight which was GGG throwing lots of Punches and coming forward but Missing with most of his Punches and being countered by Harder more explosive punches from Canelo.

Canelo won the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Rounds based on him landing the Better Cleaner Punches.

I did think GGG won rounds 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 due to Canelo not being as effective with his punches or landing as cleanly as he did in RDS 1-3 especially to the body so after 9 rounds i had GGG WINNING this fight 6-3 and i thought he would go on to win the fight comfortably.

Canelo had a second wind though and won the 10th, 11th and 12th based on Cleaner Crisper Punching. His activity wasn't at the same level as GGG but his Punches were far more effective.

After 12 Rounds, i had this Fight 114-114. I would be fine with 115-113 either way but i think a DRAW was the fairest Result.

Great Fight, hopefully we get the Re-match in May 2018.

I agree. Golovkin came forward and ate a lot of punches in the process but you cannot take a fighter's championship title away by only fighting in spurts and circling out of harm's way as Canelo did. You have to fight 3 minutes of every round without taking any rounds off in order to win the title from the champion. You have to go for the KO.