CST80's Random Boxing Scorecards For Modern & Classic Matches Depot/Discussion Thread.

It's been awhile, but I scored it for Lara.

 

"Sugar" Ray Leonard vs Dickey "My Younger Brother is Micky Ward" Eklund (July 18, 1978) (10 Rounds Welterweights)

Round 1: 10-9 Leonard
Round 2: 10-9 Leonard
Round 3: 10-9 Leonard
Round 4: 10-9 Leonard
Round 5: 10-9 Leonard
Round 6: 10-8 Leonard
Round 7: 10-9 Leonard
Round 8: 10-9 Leonard
Round 9: 10-8 Leonard
Round 10: 10-9 Leonard

My Score: 100-88 Leonard

Official Scores: (100-89 Leonard) (100-90 Leonard) (99-89 Leonard)
Winner: By Unanimous Decision Sugar Ray Leonard.

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Check out a younger Larry Merchant at the beginning of the fight, 40 years ago Larry was probably still in his 30's at the time. Well apparently you can't use Dick even if it's someone's name. Eklund's wife was surprisingly pretty hot.

 

Alexis Arguello vs Vilomar Fernandez (July 26, 1978) (10 Rounds Lightweights)

Round 1: 10-9 Arguello
Round 2: 10-9 Fernandez
Round 3: 10-9 Arguello
Round 4: 10-9 Fernandez (close)
Round 5: 10-9 Fernandez
Round 6: 10-9 Arguello
Round 7: 10-9 Fernandez
Round 8: 10-9 Arguello
Round 9: 10-9 Arguello (close)
Round 10: 10-9 Arguello

My Score: 96-94 Arguello

Official Scores: (95-95 Even) (96-95 Fernandez) (96-95 Fernandez)
Winner: By Majority Decision Vilomar Fernandez.

The definition of scoring on a curve (imo) based on Fernandez (the underdog) making it a close fight, in reality Fernandez didn't win anymore than 4 rounds. The 9th was close enough Fernandez could have won, the 4th was close enough Arguello could have won. It's still 6-4 Alexis, Fernandez was like a jackrabbit from the opening bell to the final bell, had to be incredibly frustrating to deal with. The judges would get it right the second time around almost 5 years later.

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Hugo Pastor Corro vs Ronnie Harris (August 5, 1978) (15 Rounds for the WBC & WBA Middleweight Titles)

Round 1: 10-9 Corro
Round 2: 10-9 Harris
Round 3: 10-9 Harris
Round 4: 10-9 Harris
Round 5: 10-9 Harris
Round 6: 10-9 Corro
Round 7: 10-9 Corro
Round 8: 10-9 Corro
Round 9: 10-9 Harris
Round 10: 10-9 Harris
Round 11: 10-9 Harris
Round 12: 10-9 Harris
Round 13: 10-9 Corro
Round 14: 10-9 Corro
Round 15: 10-9 Corro

My Score: 143-142 Harris

Official Scores: (145-143 Corro) (146-144 Harris) (146-145 Corro)
Winner: By Split Decision to retain The Middleweight Championship of the World Hugo Pastor Corro.

I just scored this fight about 2 months ago and saw it a one point win for Corro, this time I have it 1 point for Harris. There is barely anything in these rounds, it's very much what looks better to you on that particular day. Because no one did enough to convincingly win more than a couple rounds either way in this fight.

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Marvin Hagler vs Benny Briscoe (August 24, 1978) (10 Rounds Middleweights from the world famous Spectrum in Philly PA)

Round 1: 10-9 Hagler
Round 2: 10-9 Hagler
Round 3: 10-9 Hagler
Round 4: 10-9 Briscoe
Round 5: 10-9 Hagler
Round 6: 10-9 Hagler
Round 7: 10-9 Hagler
Round 8: 10-9 Briscoe
Round 9: 10-9 Hagler
Round 10: 10-9 Hagler

My Score: 98-92 Hagler

Official Scores: (49-43 Hagler) (48-43 Hagler) (47-44 Hagler)
Winner: By Unanimous Decision Marvelous Marvin Hagler.

A young Hagler beats a very good, very hard punching fighter in Briscoe. Benny in his younger days actually managed to score a draw against Carlos Monzon in Argentina (which would basically be like a win and very hard to pull off.) Though already ready to be The Champion, whoever the titleholder might be over the next year plus avoided Hagler, when he got his first shot and was robbed with a draw in Antuofermo I. It wouldn't be for another year when a different holder of the championship would give the Marvelous One another shot, with Marvin making the most of it and brutalizing the unlucky placeholder Alan Minter (who was a very good fighter in his own right) and stopped him early in front of a hostile UK crowd in Wembley.

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"Sugar" Ray Leonard vs Floyd Mayweather Sr. (September 9, 1978) (10 Rounds Welterweights)

Round 1: 10-9 Mayweather (close)
Round 2: 10-9 Leonard
Round 3: 10-8 Leonard (dominant)
Round 4: 10-8 Leonard (dominant)
Round 5: 10-9 Leonard (close)
Round 6: 10-9 Leonard
Round 7: 10-9 Leonard
Round 8: 10-7 Leonard
Round 9: 10-9 Leonard
Round 10: TKO

My Score: 89-78 Leonard

Official Scores: (N/A)
Winner: By 10th round Technical Knockout "Sugar" Ray Leonard.

School was in session, and Leonard put a terrible beating on Senior here. This fight was in September, Leonard would go on to have 3 more fights before the end of 1978. Randy Shields in his very next fight in October, Bernardo Prada in November, & Armando Muniz in December Could you imagine a fighter today fighting that type of schedule against that class of opponent back too back too back too back in a 4 month span. All 4 of those men were very good fighters including Mayweather here, and Dick Eklund before him in July who was tricky in his own right, and in his 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th & 17th fights. Sugar Ray was still a year out from his first title shot.

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Victor Galindez vs Mike Rossman I (September 15, 1978) (15 Rounds for the WBA Light-Heavyweight Title)

Round 1: 10-9 Rossman
Round 2: 10-9 Rossman
Round 3: 10-9 Galindez
Round 4: 10-9 Galindez
Round 5: 10-9 Galindez
Round 6: 10-9 Rossman
Round 7: 10-9 Galindez
Round 8: 10-9 Rossman
Round 9: 10-9 Rossman
Round 10: 10-9 Rossman
Round 11: 10-9 Rossman
Round 12: 10-9 Rossman
Round 13: TKO

My Score: 116-112 Rossman (ATOS)

Official Scores: (N/A)
Winner: By 13th round Technical Knockout and new Light-Heavyweight Champion of the World Mike Rossman.

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Battle of New Orleans: Leon Spinks vs Muhammad Ali II (September 15, 1978) (15 Rounds for the WBA/Lineal Heavyweight Title)

Round 1: 10-9 Spinks
Round 2: 10-9 Ali
Round 3: 10-9 Ali
Round 4: 10-9 Spinks
Round 5: 10-9 Ali
Round 6: 10-9 Ali
Round 7: 10-9 Ali
Round 8: 10-9 Ali
Round 9: 10-9 Spinks
Round 10: 10-9 Ali
Round 11: 10-9 Ali
Round 12: 10-9 Ali
Round 13: 10-9 Ali
Round 14: 10-9 Ali
Round 15: 10-9 Spinks

My Score: 146-139 Ali

Official Scores: (11-4 Ali) (10-4-1 Ali) (10-4-1 Ali)
Winner: By Unanimous Decision to regain (for the 3rd time) The Heavyweight Championship of the World, Muhammad Ali.

Ali turned back the clock here, the best shape I've seen him in in years.

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Can someone do Hatton vs Floyd. I always thought it was closer than the scores cards had it , but maybe not ...

 

YOU WERE NINE ????

 

Yup, 1976.

 

Eddie (Gregory) Mustafa Muhammad vs John Scott (October 12, 1978) (Rahway State Prison, Woodbridge Township, New Jersey) (12 Rounds, Light-Heavyweights)

Round 1: 10-9 Scott
Round 2: 10-9 Scott
Round 3: 10-9 Scott
Round 4: 10-9 Scott
Round 5: 10-9 Scott
Round 6: 10-9 Muhammad
Round 7: 10-9 Muhammad
Round 8: 10-9 Scott
Round 9: 10-9 Scott
Round 10: 10-9 Scott
Round 11: 10-9 Scott
Round 12: 10-9 Scott

My Score: 118-110

Official Scores: (9-3 Scott) (9-2-1 Scott) (6-4-2 Scott)
Winner: By Unanimous Decision James Scott.

Harold Letterman who was one of the judges for this fight, was quoted as saying "On that day, I thought James Scott was the greatest light heavyweight I ever saw in my life. That's how great he was. On that one day when he beat Gregory, he was the best light heavyweight I ever saw. I never saw a performance like that — anywhere. I don't think Bob Foster was as good as that. I don't think Archie Moore was that good. He was prepared like I never saw in my life."

Well Harold, Scott was prepared for sure, and he beat Muhammad for sure, but if you think that was the best performance by a LHW you've ever seen, and that he was better than Foster or Moore then you really need to have your head examined. It looked to me like Muhammad took the fight lightly, under trained and it cost him. Now he might have lost anyway, but James Scott isn't beating the likes of Victor Galindez, Matthew Saad Muhammad, or the best like Foster & Moore on his best day.

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Matthew (Franklin) Saad Muhammad vs Yaqui Lopez I (October 24, 1978) (12 Rounds for the NABF Light-Heavyweight Title)

Round 1: 10-9 Muhammad
Round 2: 10-9 Muhammad
Round 3: 10-8 Muhammad (hurts & dominates Lopez)
Round 4: 10-9 Lopez
Round 5: 10-9 Muhammad
Round 6: 10-9 Lopez
Round 7: 10-9 Muhammad
Round 8: 10-9 Lopez
Round 9: Muhammad
Round 10: 10-9 Muhammad
Round 11: 10-9 Muhammad (Ref waives off the fight just after the bell, but official it's called a TKO this round)

My Score: 107-101 (or 97-92 if you don't score the 11th)

Official Scores: (N/A)
Winner: By 11th round Technical Knockout to retain the NABF Light-Heavyweight Championship Matthew Saad Muhammad.

Another one of MSM's 5 star rated fights imo, Lopez was game but got cut bad around 1 eye, and the other swollen completely shut. Clear victory for Muhammad, despite being on the verge of heat exhaustion from having to cut 3 pounds the day of to make the 175 lb. limit.

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