Things that are p*ssing you off about the sport?

megadodge

I agree that you have mentioned this whole issue numerous times and your point is fair, but the problem in this case is that I thought Smith won a hell of a lot more than ONE lousy round. I just cannot fathom that.

Abraham did f*ck all in most of the second half of the fight and I just found it so hard to give him any round after round 5, except the last. In fact, I agreed with Watt's scoring on the whole - and I'm not afraid to disagree with commentators in general as I'm sure ye've noticed. Smith outworked and outlanded AA in each of rounds 6-11 IMHO and quite often seemed to rattle him a bit also. I don't think any fair judge could only say Smith won one round, or AA won eleven rounds. That's ridiculous. AA was taking plenty of shots on gloves and arms, but also took plenty on the target area too, while not even bothering to throw anything in return except a 10 second flurry that the crowd would ooooh and aahhhh at, but that should never win a round unless he did a lot of damage in it - which he didn't.

I don't think this is a case of what you like, it's simply a robbery in the 119-109 case.

walshb

megadodge wrote: »

I agree that you have mentioned this whole issue numerous times and your point is fair, but the problem in this case is that I thought Smith won a hell of a lot more than ONE lousy round. I just cannot fathom that.

Abraham did f*ck all in most of the second half of the fight and I just found it so hard to give him any round after round 5, except the last. In fact, I agreed with Watt's scoring on the whole - and I'm not afraid to disagree with commentators in general as I'm sure ye've noticed. Smith outworked and outlanded AA in each of rounds 6-11 IMHO and quite often seemed to rattle him a bit also. I don't think any fair judge could only say Smith won one round, or AA won eleven rounds. That's ridiculous. AA was taking plenty of shots on gloves and arms, but also took plenty on the target area too, while not even bothering to throw anything in return except a 10 second flurry that the crowd would ooooh and aahhhh at, but that should never win a round unless he did a lot of damage in it - which he didn't.

I don't think this is a case of what you like, it's simply a robbery in the 119-109 case.

I have not seen the fight, and maybe won't because I saw clips and it didn't look all that interesting to me. If there were fairly obvious and clear rds (let us say 4-5 rds) for Smith then 119-109 is bad. Watt did say that a fair few rds were close. Let us say that is 5-6 rds. There's a possible 6 rd points difference straight away. Can I ask, could you make an argument for the rds that you gave to Smith as being awarded to AA? If so, then maybe the 119-109 isn't bad.

megadodge

walshb wrote: »

I have not seen the fight, and maybe won't because I saw clips and it didn't look all that interesting to me. If there were fairly obvious and clear rds (let us say 4-5 rds) for Smith then 119-109 is bad. Watt did say that a fair few rds were close. Let us say that is 5-6 rds. There's a possible 6 rd points difference straight away. Can I ask, could you make an argument for the rds that you gave to Smith as being awarded to AA? If so, then maybe the 119-109 isn't bad.

119-109 IS bad.

That means only ONE round to Smith. There is no way I could reverse that many rounds to Abraham. No way. He just didn't do enough in a lot of rounds.

There's no point discussing it until you've seen it yourself.

Tigersliding

A close round should be a10 9 round. A clear round should be 10 8 or 10 7. We should be also seeing 10 5 rounds when there is a knock down.

walshb

Tigersliding wrote: »

A close round should be a10 9 round. A clear round should be 10 8 or 10 7. We should be also seeing 10 5 rounds when there is a knock down.

10-5 for what? That's a death round!;)

unknown13

Rumours about sparring and what went on in those spars.

djhaxman

Sky and their excuses for PPV. Harrison v Haye was the worst. Now we have Cleverly and Bellew, neither of who are much good.

walshb

In a nutshell the best not meeting the best is what is truly wrong with pro boxing. So infuriating. If it happened the sport would be by and far the best sport on earth. Imagine all the dream fights and potential hum dingers?