Originally posted by bluebeam
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GGG-Jacobs was as easy a fight to score as any competitive fight I can remember. As evidenced by the 3 judges' cards being nearly identical really. 1 judge had it over after 8 rounds; the other 2 had it over after 9 rounds. The only real debatable round in the first ten was the 7th, and that was the only round the judges differed on.
11 was similar to the 7th; and the 12th was typically hard (for me anyway) to score since it was a typical all heart/effort final round which usually means some good activity, sloppy punching, and difficulty (especially live) isolating exactly what landed clean etc, and who won the round.
After the 9th (or 10th) round the judges seemed to officially throw Danny the last two rounds (5 out of 6 rounds from the judges' 3 cards), for his effort or for bonus points I suppose. Danny got 7 of 9 official points among the 7th, 11th and 12th rounds which was really very fortunate for 3 very close rounds. The clearest of those was probably the 12th for GGG which he only won on 1 card.
When you get outlanded by 50 punches, outlanded in about 9 or 10 rounds, and get dropped, you don't deserve to win or even deserve to make a claim about winning. Especially when you are fighting in your own backyard.
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