Your scoring for Holyfied vs Lewis 2

Funny I thought it was a fairly easy fight to score and that to get to 7-5 for Lewis I was giving all the close rounds to Holyfield. I simply couldn't score this fight any closer than that.

 

Round 1: Holyfield
Round 2: Lewis
Round 3: Holyfield
Round 4: Lewis
Round 5: Lewis
Round 6: Holyfield
Round 7: Holyfield
Round 8: Lewis
Round 9: Lewis
Round 10: Lewis
Round 11: Lewis
Round 12: Holyfield

Lewis 7-5.

Close fight but a clear win for Lewis. Holyfield just didn't do nothing in the last half, I suspect he ran out of gas after the busy middle rounds where he was working the jab to the chest and loading up on power shots. Lewis wasn't really doing all that much in the late rounds himself but he shut Evander out by not letting him around the jab.

 

Hard or easy to score. I personally thought it was a rather easy fight to score, how about you?

 

It really depends how you score punches.
I thought whenever Lewis increased his volume he tended to lose a bit on generalship (positioning) and aggression, kind of tapping off a flurry and then giving Holyfield chance to respond with something more forceful and forwardly assertive.
Then it's a case of whether Holyfield did respond enough, and really he did not do so often enough, down the stretch. But for me, several rounds were close.

If I focused more on volume as the essential decider, then more of the rounds were be CLEAR for Lewis.

 

A huge reason for the second fight being closer is that Lennox Lewis was not allowed to wear his trunks to his nipples the second time around.


[url]http://www.fightsondvd.com/Lewis.jpg[/url]

 

I think the vast majority would agree with you.

But I never quite got the fuss of the 'draw'. I had Lewis winning 7/5, but many rounds were close, so a draw seemed reasonable to me. I thought in his first 'huge' American fight, Lewis fought too cautiously, giving Evander too much respect, something Lennox rectified in the rematch.

 

Exactly. The picture was to reinforce what I wrote.

In the rematch he had to wear his trunks properly and Holyfield was able to get his body.

[url]http://www.pound4poundmemorabilia.com/fighters/lennox%20lewis/lennox%20lewis%20signed%2018%20x%2012%20vs%20holyfield%20ii.jpg[/url]

 

Did you have a kip between rounds 6 and 8 :blurp I had it 8-4 Lewis might need a re-watch

 

7 was a clear Evander Round.

So McGrain actually has it as a draw. Or he didn't mean to give Holyfield Round 5.