You won't believe it... official scorecard for Karmazin-Spinks

[Verstyle]

the last 2 rounds is where its iffy

[kallsop]

I haven't seen the fight yet.

Here's what some judges do. They score the fight close, then in the last few rounds, score the fight for the guy they think deserves to win the fight, for whatever reason possibly even corruption, even if that fighter loses the round. Is that fair? I suppose if the "right" fighter wins, it's fair. But it isn't sporting.

[josenoway]

i rewatched the fight and i don't agree with the later scoring by the judges. spinks won early but he was struggling badly at the end, both with stamina and focus. he did enough early to win but i'm not sure what the judges were looking for at the end to give those rounds to corey.

[Hitman932]

i honestly cant believe the judges scored round 11 for spinks, listen to his trainer after the 11th and tell me if that sounds like advice for a fighter who just won the last round.

really the bottom line is this..

if you score rounds 6 and 7 for karmazin how can you not score round 11 for him?

[DiegoFuego]

i honestly cant believe the judges scored round 11 for spinks, listen to his trainer after the 11th and tell me if that sounds like advice for a fighter who just won the last round.

really the bottom line is this..

if you score rounds 6 and 7 for karmazin how can you not score round 11 for him?

wham bam thank you ma'am. those judges ******. they got the rounds wrong, but the final scoring right.

[DUPLICITY]

Wow, I just realized Spinks got the 11th on all 3 cards. That was the difference in him winning the title, and there's no way he won the 11th IMHO. Interesting...

mechslave... we were judging the fight realtime on hbo boxing forum.

i gave the 11th to spinks immediately after the round.

karmazin wasn't landing... go watch it again. you may change your mind.

[DiegoFuego]

I remember my toss-up rounds being 6 and 11, and I gave both to Karmazin. So scoring every possible round I could for Karmazin basically, I still had it a draw. That is why I cannot see Karmazin winning the fight but can see Spinks winning it. Still, it wouldn't really have been a robbery either way.

[PRboxingfan]

I gave 11 to Spinks as well, but there is no way he should've won the 12th. Even though he was on his bike in the 11th, I thought Spinks did enough to win the round. In the 12th, however, he was flat-out running. It's like scoring the last three rounds of the DLH-Trinidad fight for Oscar.