Here's my Judah - Garcia card after rewatching the fight.

I had to watch this fight again, and I scored it round by round. I am looking for seperation or I'll score the round even.

Zab Danny
10-10
10-10
10-10
9-10
9-10
9-10
10-9*
8-10
9-10*
10-9
10-9
10-9*

Total
114-116

*Extremely close round where I felt one guy did just enough to edge it

Notes:

I think a lot of people gave Danny the first 3 rounds, but if you re-watch those rounds, they were pretty even. Neither guy landed anything huge, but both were active and had their moments. Zab landed some great punches in round 2, and neither guy really let the other guy get the upper hand in these rounds imho.

Round 6
Early in the round, Zab got hit with a punch and it looked like his gloves might have touched the canvas. it was hard to tell because of the camera angle and the fact that there weren't any instant replays. So I scored this round assuming his glove didn't hit the canvas. Danny caused significant damage this round and really had Zab wobbled twice. This round could have been a 10-8 round for Danny, but I thought Zab managed to land just enough punches to keep it 10-9.

Round 7
Garcia 12 of 49 24%
Judah 19 of 48 40%

Round 8
Zab was winning the first half of the round until the knockdown right around the midway point. it was a "swift" straight right hand through the double handed guard of Judah after Zab landed a nice clean punch on Danny. This knockdown was incredibly sneaky by Danny and surprised Judah. Judah was in a blocking stance and he went down because he wasn't expecting contact at that moment. that punch went through Zab's two handed guard (amazingly hard to do) with power and caused the cut under Zab's left eye. Spectacular round.

Round 11
The round was dead even when the round was stopped with 43 seconds left for Zab's shoe to be tied. But in the last 40 seconds, Zab absolutely won this round with brilliant power punches and a huge right hand body shot.

Round 12
Great round for Zab but I thought both guys landed about the same amount of huge clean punches, Danny finished strong in the final seconds with a huge right hand. I had a hard time deciding whether to score it 10-10 or 10-9 for Zab. I would like to see round 12 punch stats.

The key rounds to me were round 6, round 8 and round 12. Round 6 was a mammoth round for Garcia. He had Zab in serious trouble, but Zab somehow managed to stay up and survive. If Zab doesn't get knocked down in round 8 and wins that round, like he was for the first half, that's a 3 point swing.

The official scores were 115-112, 114-112, 116-111, so my margin was in line with this scoring. I would like to hear how you guys scored it. It's hard to score a fight as a fan when you are watching it live, because you are so into it. but when you re-watch a fight you can really look at the rounds as a whole and try to score it objectively.

 

Good post. I really appriciate any constructive criticism. I generally agree with what you are saying, and I don't claim to be perfect. i try to balance things to the best of my ability.

The 11th round doesn't earn an askerisk because like I said, the round was dead even in my mind when the round was stopped to tie Zab's shoe. But after the round was restarted, Zab went on a frenzy and decisively won that round in my mind because he landed some absolute bombs.

The ones with the askerisk could easily have been 10-10 rounds, and frankly, I didn't think Zab did enough to win any of the first 3 rounds. But at the same time, I didn't think Danny really decisively won those rounds either. round 2 i think was closer then round 1. (round 1 probably could have gone to Danny, but when you compare rounds 1-3 to rounds 4-6, where Danny clearly won, I don't think it's accurate to give Danny each of the first 6 rounds 10-9) Danny won rounds 4-6 decisively. rounds 1-3 were close, heck round 3 you could have concievably gave to Zab.

 

I would have been reaching if I gave Zab any more then 3 of 4 rounds. I only gave Zab 4 rounds, and 2 of those were razor close. It wouldn't be crazy to score 6 rounds even, 4 to Danny and 2 to Zab. Rounds 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, and 12 were all incredibly close rounds. Rounds 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 11 were each rounds where I thought it was clear that someone won it. I'm not just going to give someone a round. Zab Judah held his own in the first 3 rounds. He was landing and didn't really get hit clean in those rounds.

 

Even though my card is closer, I think you're card is fair. You're giving Danny the close rounds, and it's certainly debatable. But I'm just not sure that you can give Danny all of the first 9 rounds. Would you agree that out of those first 9 rounds, the closest rounds were 1, 2, 3, and 7? I believe this fight had momentum shifts. Danny hurt Zab bad in Round 6, but Zab came back in the 7th and in the first half of the 8th was winning that round. then he got knocked down which swung the momentum back in Danny's favor. Then it took Zab until the 10th to recover from that KD. I happen to think there's some rounds where both guys are landing, neither guy is getting rocked, and both guys are doing what they have to do. I thought 1, 2, 3, 7, and 9 were those type of rounds.

 

Hey I think you needed to challenge my card so I could try to explain where I was coming from. And look at that, you yourself had Zab winning the 3rd round, where i scored it 10-10. So we're seeing the same things. i think these are tough decisions for any boxing judge to score. It's just a matter of how willing we are to consider 10-10 rounds.

Could you share your round by round scores? i'd like to see which rounds we agree on and which ones we differ on.

 

Garcia knocked down Judah in the 8th, not the 9th. The 9th was very close, though I gave it to Danny.