Comments Thread For: Xu Can Stuns Jesus Rojas, Wins Decision To Capture WBA Belt

[Boxing Hero]

Jesus Rijas won

[PBR Streetgang]

It was close fight but Rojas would often back peddle to the ropes after an exchange; I'm sure he was trying to lure Can to follow but it also could be interpreted as backing out of the exchange because he was hurt (which I don't think he was).

Close fight and both guys threw some really nice, fluid combinations.

[Loque-san]

Excellent fight this. The scorecards were off but no problem with Xu Can winning a close decision.

[bigdunny1]

https://www.badlefthook.com/2019/1/26/18199099/xu-can-upsets-jesus-rojas-in-action-packed-battle-snags-wba-title

Can Xu upsets Jesus Rojas in action-packed battle, snags WBA title

The three judges had the fight much wider in Can’s favor than one would think possible.

By Wil Esco@wil_esco Jan 26, 2019, 10:56pm EST

We had an early candidate for Fight of the Year tonight on DAZN, with Can Xu and Jesus Rojas going to war for 12 full rounds before Xu ultimately won a unanimous decision to take the WBA’s ‘world’ featherweight title. The three official judges scored it 118-110, 117-111, and 116-112 for Xu, while BLH edged the fight to Rojas, 115-113.

The DAZN commentating crew would be highly critical of the scorecards, with all of them believing the fight should’ve been much closer than it was scored, even if you edged the fight to Xu. I, obviously, would be inclined to agree with them considering how I scored the fight.

Either way, it was a really fun fight. Both fighters started off taking turns throwing combinations at each other, and that would be a trend that would continue throughout as the fighters sets a furious pace that really never let up through the final bell. And the fighters even showed a lot of respect for one another, touching gloves and hugging each other to start the 12th round after they both fought valiantly, evidenced by the punch stats.

CompuBox had Xu landing 380 of 1245 total punches (30.5%) while Rojas landed 388 of 1329 total punches (29.2%). How a fight like that could end up 118-110 on anyone’s scorecard is pretty absurd.

But with the win Xu (16-2, 2 KOs) gets his hands on a secondary world title while Rojas (26-3-1, 19 KOs) has to be a little bitter about how he wasn’t given much of a chance in this fight.

Rojas was buser threw more punches, landed more punches, did more damage as he is one of the hardest punchers in the division while Can who no doubt also landed punches has no power. Yet Rojas the champ and bigger name fighter lost by landslide to the judges SMH

Terrible cards ruin a great fight.

[ShoulderRoll]

Watching this now. Can Xu has no power so I've been giving most rounds to Rojas.

Remember, power isn't one of the 4 criteria for scoring a round.

[baroidi]

how can the judges even determine that Rojas' punches were more powerful when it had absolutely no effect on Xu Can? Xu Can was never rocked or even wobbled, and when Rojas landed clean, Xu Can just responded by throwing back combos. Whereas Rojas had periods where he backed off and inactive. Xu Can had the higher workrate, that's what sealed it for me.

[BestPR]

Rojas got ripped off...

[sugar ray lenrd]

Was a good fight! I thought it was closer than what the judges had it. I felt Rojas edged it out. I was disappointed my #1 dog lost. If anything, it should have been a draw. What's a shame is that Rojas had that belt over a year & was never given a title shot at Santa Cruz & or Mares, but watch how GoldenBoy Promo offer CanXu a shot at Santa Cruz... the irony. Can Xu fought a smart fight....My hats of to him...