Agreed. First time I seen Barker fight and he did bring out the best of Martinez and earn the win. Troubled him in the first half of the fight with a tight peek-a-boo defence not allowing Martinez to land anything signifcant and good straight right on the counter. Wasn't suckered into Martinez's traps. Had it 96-94 in favour of Martinez going into round 11. Couple of close rounds so can accept the margin slightly wider than mine (in favour of Martinez - don't think you could justify Barker being ahead though).
I didn't score, because I never expected the fight to go to the cards (underestimated Barker). Got a bit worried though :yep Does anyone know the official scores of the bout?
Even going into the 11th round because i dont score fights on ineffective workrate. Martinez managed to make his class show in the end, the bodyshots took every ounce of strength out of Barker before he closed the show.
Quite a hard one to call. I would say Barker took rounds 3,4,5 & 8 - so by this summary 6-4 in Maravilla's favour. ****ing rediculous that one judge had 99-91. If it had gone all the way, I think there would have been some serious questions raised about this.
6-4 to Martinez 1st - Martinez 2nd - Martinez 3rd - Barker 4th - Barker 5th - Barker 6th - Martinez 7th - Martinez 8th - Barker 9th - Martinez 10th - Martinez