Post YOUR Scorecard for Martinez-Barker

kinda sums it up!

 

7-3 Martinez possibly 6-4 but Barker just wasn't throwing much.

 

7-3 Serge leading to the KO

 

I had it 6 for Martinez, 3 for Barker, and one round I couldn't nail down (forgot which).

 

Man, I guess I need to rewatch this fight. For those of you, that had this fight a draw, what rounds did you give Barker. I thought Sergio won 8, 9 and 10 easy so you must have had Barker up 5-2 after 7?

 

You thought wrong.


1st - Martinez
2nd - Martinez
3rd - Barker
4th - Barker
5th - Barker
6th - Martinez
7th - Martinez
8th - Barker
9th - Barker
10th - Martinez

 

I think you are being a bit generous to Barker, but your card is much closer to the truth than these 9-1 idiots.

 

Girl in the crowd next to the blonde in the 2nd row was 120-109

 

I say Martinez was already ahead on the scorecards by 2 rounds at the stoppage. Barker lost his gameplan. That stupid hands down routine of Sergio got old real quick..It wasn't cute like he thought it was.

 

I didn't score the fight round by round. But I thought Barker could've won 4 rounds on any reasonable scorecard. HBO is making it more of a stretch, but I do think while Martinez was struggling was finding the groove and definitely out-working Barker. A lot of Barker's clean counters and right hands were sort of pitty pat type stuff. He rarely tried to sit on his punches and land with force. Thus, if I rewatched the fight I'm sure I'd probably give Barker no more than 3 rounds. If I remember, I thought he won perhaps the 3rd, 5th, and 8th. I can't remember for sure. I thought Martinez fought well, and Barker did as well to his credit (Although not enough, as HBO pointed out quite often).

 

I had it a shutout.

Most of the rounds were close, but I couldn't find any to give to Barker.

 

Barker couldnt have won more than 2 rds, man people cant score a fight anymore.

 

cause judges dont pay attention to workrate and just from accuracy huh :roll:

 

Close fight then?
I didn't see it?
Was it a good fight at least?

 

Exactly. I didn't score the fight but it was clearly quite evenly matched before Martinez closed the show.

The sad thing is if the roles were reversed and Martinez was the one backing Barker up, outjabbing him, and landing the cleaner shots but generally just getting outworked, the HBO crew would have kept going on about how, "Barker's throwing plenty, but Martinez is just walking him down and picking him apart. The hottest fighter in boxing, Sergio Martinez, putting on a show!"