Comments Thread For: Wilder-Fury Draw Falls Within Scoring "Cone of Uncertainty"

[Aegir]

I am not a fan of either, just re-watched the fight and scored it. 115-112 with the knock downs, to Fury

[vitali1999]

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Sucks to be wrong doesn't it dock head ?

[Adamsc151]

I had 115-111 in Fury's favour, outside of the two 10-8 rounds Wilder only won the 5th on my card. If you apply the 2 round rule then without additional knockdowns it's 113-113. That therefore makes the draw a grudging possibility, but the 115-111 card favouring Wilder is absolutely outrageous.
My view is; there will always be those in life who are dishonest an will cheat, but if that's what you are going to do then don't make it so bloody obvious.
I liken this to some exam papers I marked a couple of years ago where two guys sitting next to each other got exactly the same score. Now if they both got 100% then you could argue that 2 exceptional students just happened too be sitting together, but this was not the case. The 2 guys in question got a score of precisely 82% which raised su****ion straight away but give them a chance this may be coincidence. Then I noticed that they got the exact same questions wrong, long shot but still a genuine possibility. But the incorrect answers to those questions were exactly the same, and these were not multiple choice but explain-your-answer type questions.

[Nomadic]

Everyone needs to suck it up and toughen up. It was a draw, let the rematch decide who wins.

[chrisJS]

95% of people had Fury winning and winning well. The few who didn't have no credentials or bias. Dan Rafael, an absolute mug, stealing a living, and Eli Suck ****, and maybe one or two more.

100% had Fury winning. The people defended a draw are just saving face.

The bare minimum Fury won was 8 rounds and that’s giving Wilder everything. To have it 8-4 means you gave Wilder the benefit of the doubt AND scored a round wrong and even then you still have 114-112 then the fanboys says “Oh see it’s only a two point fight so a BS draw is fair” so they want to score 2 or 3 rounds completely wrong to justify a “draw”? LOL

[Redgloveman]

Horrible article, Lyle, and coming from a guy who told us that a Wilder win was a foregone conclusion because of the tone of his voice.

It's not a good look for a writer.

[Ake-Dawg]

Are you folks mad at Rachin scorecard or the fight result. Edward's had it a draw and only differed from Tapper by round 6, which was close. That's how close the fight was.

Most post seem to reflect anger that Fury didn't win, feeling that Rachin took the W away. The result was fair, how we got their wasn't ideal however. Let's just acknowledge that and move on.

Boxing hasn't changed. Fans have. Fans are killing the sport.

[Redgloveman]

Major props to guys who I know are Wilder fans decrying the scoring in this fight. RedFoxx in particular.

I think that Wilder would win a rematch and I favoured him in this one, but the fact is that it just wasn't his night. It was Fury's night and the one belt that Fury never held has been withheld from him. Not by the fighter standing in the opposite corner but by the guys sitting a few feet from the ring in comfort and safety. There's a tragedy in that.

Fury pulled off something that looked impossible a couple of months ago and battled through hell to do it. This includes his miraculous recovery in the 12th round when not a single person in the arena believed he could get up. He took a punch that he didn't see and then a free shot to the face from one of the hardest punchers in boxing history in the final round of a championship fight. He struggled to his feet and even came back to hurt Wilder in the final round.

We should have all borne witness to one of the truly remarkable boxing stories. I have no doubt that it would have been a story that transcended boxing; this was about a guy who battled back from the brink of suicide and rolled the dice. The dice fell perfectly, but the casino refused to pay out.

On the plus side - heavyweight boxing is back. First AJ and now Wilder and Fury have totally reinvigorated the division.

[Ake-Dawg]

100% had Fury winning. The people defended a draw are just saving face.

The bare minimum Fury won was 8 rounds and that’s giving Wilder everything. To have it 8-4 means you gave Wilder the benefit of the doubt AND scored a round wrong and even then you still have 114-112 then the fanboys says “Oh see it’s only a two point fight so a BS draw is fair” so they want to score 2 or 3 rounds completely wrong to justify a “draw”? LOL

So by this logic Tapper scorecard was also "wrong".

[EasternEuroFan]

Lol people making **** up about cones now and natural disaster predictions to justify robberies. How far do you want to reach to justify it?

Wilder got schooled for 9 or 10 rounds. That's the top and bottom of it