Comments Thread For: Spence Treads a Fine Line To Survive Porter

[alexnation]

what I saw that night was that Spence is NOT the truth. 116-111 was a joke - they should fire the corrupt guy

[Boxing Scene]

How in the **** does Danny Garcia keep getting these fights? Spence should be fighting Pac or Crawford next, and you know what, Pac would beat him.

[boxing IQ]

BS article. Anyone with eyes saw Porter win with effective aggression, higher workrate, ring generalship, and more punches landed. Porter was hurling haymakers at Spence all night, yet, Compubox would have you believe that Spence threw more and outlanded him. It was nowhere near close enough to let one knockdown grant Spence the decision as the writer, in the headline story on a website owned by CBS, would try so deliberately to ram into our heads. And what's with all the low blows from Spence not being called by Jack Reiss, "the most respected referee in boxing." No point deductions after several warnings? This favoritism for the A-side is out of control. Boxing isn't a sport, it's a business.

I like Spence. I wanted him to win, but Porter got robbed of another career defining victory as he did with Thurman. Porter so nice a dude he ain't complain about none of this bs. Much respect to the real winner. One day, in a high stakes fight, I'd like to see the winner actually win.

[davidw9785]

BS article. Anyone with eyes saw Porter win with effective aggression, higher workrate, ring generalship, and more punches landed. Porter was hurling haymakers at Spence all night, yet, Compubox would have you believe that Spence threw more and outlanded him. It was nowhere near close enough to let one knockdown grant Spence the decision as the writer, in the headline story on a website owned by CBS, would try so deliberately to ram into our heads. And what's with all the low blows from Spence not being called by Jack Reiss, "the most respected referee in boxing." No point deductions after several warnings? This favoritism for the A-side is out of control. Boxing isn't a sport, it's a business.

I like Spence. I wanted him to win, but Porter got robbed of another career defining victory as he did with Thurman. Porter so nice a dude he ain't complain about none of this bs. Much respect to the real winner. One day, in a high stakes fight, I'd like to see the winner actually win.

Porter got robbed?? Are you serious? Porter definitely exceeded expectations and landed plenty of punches, but he didn't get close to dominating the fight to say he got ROBBED!! He didn't hurt Spence once, and Spence blocked a lot of his combinations...

The scorecard in favor of Porter is outrageous. The look on Porter's face when the cards were announced and during the press conference when asked whether he thought he won says it all. He couldn't honestly say he did enough to win!!

[Sustanon]

spence is overrated
in terms of greatness, doesnt come close with Pac and floyd

[arraamis]

Another big fight, followed by several months of guys pushing their unsubstantiated narratives.

Spence vs Porter was a great fight and the better man won in spite of the bizarre, but consistently strange judge scoring.

* For the guys downing Spence for not immediately fighting Crawford, post-Porter ....... The path to that fight was determined after Spence captured the belt from Brook. Spence will unify all the belts on the PBC side, then they will seek a fight with Crawford. IT WILL NOT HAPPEN BEFORE THEN.

And the timing has nothing to do with ducking, and everything to do with business revenue. If you can't understand that, then your narrative is for the sake of having a talking point only and borderline trolling.

[pugil1st]

what I saw that night was that Spence is NOT the truth. 116-111 was a joke - they should fire the corrupt guy

No corruption. Those were close rounds. I went back and watched the fight again last night and still it was hard in some rounds to say who won. That score doesn't mean one dominated the other, it just means for some reason, the judge was giving an edge to Spence in the close rounds.

[Ajvar]

If not Porter's mistake in 11-th round even those 2 judges would score it to a draw.
And everybody would call for a robbery, rightfully so... Shawn, Shawn, you just believed a little too much into your chin lowering down your defense.

[twosweethooks]

Porter won the fight !

[doom_specialist]

BS article. Anyone with eyes saw Porter win with effective aggression, higher workrate, ring generalship, and more punches landed. Porter was hurling haymakers at Spence all night, yet, Compubox would have you believe that Spence threw more and outlanded him. It was nowhere near close enough to let one knockdown grant Spence the decision as the writer, in the headline story on a website owned by CBS, would try so deliberately to ram into our heads. And what's with all the low blows from Spence not being called by Jack Reiss, "the most respected referee in boxing." No point deductions after several warnings? This favoritism for the A-side is out of control. Boxing isn't a sport, it's a business.

I like Spence. I wanted him to win, but Porter got robbed of another career defining victory as he did with Thurman. Porter so nice a dude he ain't complain about none of this bs. Much respect to the real winner. One day, in a high stakes fight, I'd like to see the winner actually win.

Spence threw and landed more, with big connect % edges in power and body shots. Coming forward doesn't mean you're winning.