Martin Murray vs. Gabriel Rosado & John Ryder vs. Rocky Fielding RBR.

Bellew has it 4-3 with one even to Murray.

 

Round 1 Rosado 10-9 Very Close
Round 2 Murray 10-9 Close
Round 3 Rosado 10-9 Close
Round 4 Rosado 10-9 Close
Round 5 Rosado 10-9 Close
Round 6 Murray 10-9 Close
Round 7 Murray 10-9 Very Close
Round 8 Rosado 10-9 Close
Round 9 Rosado 10-9 Close

Another round for Gabe on activity, Murray is picking the better shots, but just isn't landing enough of them, Gabe is pushing the pace and outworking him and his shots are landing cleaner now.

 

Round 1 Rosado 10-9 Very Close
Round 2 Murray 10-9 Close
Round 3 Rosado 10-9 Close
Round 4 Rosado 10-9 Close
Round 5 Rosado 10-9 Close
Round 6 Murray 10-9 Close
Round 7 Murray 10-9 Very Close
Round 8 Rosado 10-9 Close
Round 9 Rosado 10-9 Close
Round 10 Murray 10-9 Close

Murray landing the better cleaner counters, whipping in overhand rights on Gabe as he comes in behind his jab, Gabe had a decent middle but Murray closed well, with some decent combination work in the last minute.

 

Huh?

 

Round 1 Rosado 10-9 Very Close
Round 2 Murray 10-9 Close
Round 3 Rosado 10-9 Close
Round 4 Rosado 10-9 Close
Round 5 Rosado 10-9 Close
Round 6 Murray 10-9 Close
Round 7 Murray 10-9 Very Close
Round 8 Rosado 10-9 Close
Round 9 Rosado 10-9 Close
Round 10 Murray 10-9 Close
Round 11 Rosado 10-9

Murray comes out aggressive lands a right or two, Gabe takes over walks Murray down pins him along the ropes and starts digging hooks to the body and landing overhands up top, Murray is looking gassed and appeared to be rocked a time or two that round.

 

Round 1 Rosado 10-9 Very Close
Round 2 Murray 10-9 Close
Round 3 Rosado 10-9 Close
Round 4 Rosado 10-9 Close
Round 5 Rosado 10-9 Close
Round 6 Murray 10-9 Close
Round 7 Murray 10-9 Very Close
Round 8 Rosado 10-9 Close
Round 9 Rosado 10-9 Close
Round 10 Murray 10-9 Close
Round 11 Rosado 10-9
Round 12 Rosado 10-9

The final round was pretty much all Rosado, he pounded Murray to the body throughout, Murray backing away occasionally landing a partially blocked counter hook, Rosado landing in combination to the body and strafing Murray with hooks around the guard up top to take it.

116-112 Rosado

116-113, 115-113. 115-114 Rosado or 114-114 will do as well.

But in no way did Martin Murray win this match.

 

The more I think of it, the more annoyed I get at this decision, Gabe showed up with a great gameplan and executed it perfectly and outhustled the master of well deserved SD losses Murray, and dammit he deserved another one here, he fought as cautious as hell and didn't even really try to win, he coasted knowing he had it in the bag regardless. And because of terrible British scorecards and lack of interest in the fight Gabe now has two back to back losses on his record and most aren't even aware of how the match played out or that it even occurred, and in the process robbed Rosado of one of his signature wins.

 

Nah, both were robberies, Ryder and Rosado both got stiffed on the card.


Gabe is spot on here.

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Rocky Fielding vs. John Ryder 12 Rounds @ Super Middleweight

Round 1 Fielding 10-9 Rocky landed the heavier cleaner shots, a lot of rough housing.
Round 2 Fielding 10-9, close. Fielding still landed cleaner work, but good inside work from Ryder.
Round 3 Ryder 10-9, close. Ryder got on the inside and outworked him with hard hooks to the body.
Round 4 Ryder 10-9, close. Back and forth, but Ryder's consistent early body work nicked it.
Round 5 Fielding 10-9, close. Rocky smothered a lot of Ryder's inside work got his jab on track a little.
Round 6 Fielding 10-9 Rocky jabbing well for most of the round, controlled the majority of it.
Round 7 Fielding 10-9, close. RF kept JR at the end of his jab throughout, Ryder closed well, but not enough.
Round 8 Ryder 10-9 John backed him to the ropes & worked the body and got in several uppercuts & hooks.
Round 9 Ryder 10-9 John pinned him on the ropes and ripped him with several rights hooks, Rocky came back late.
Round 10 Ryder 10-9 RF doing well backing him up, JR catches him with a right hook, rocked him and teed off.
Round 11 Fielding 10-9, close. Near even, back and forth throughout, Fielding landed big counter hook to edge it.
Round 12 Fielding 10-9 Rocky tied up, roughed up and outworked John in the 12th.

115-113 Fielding

114-114 is fine as well.

I had a pretty rough day the day this happened, I remember it vividly, so I didn't get a chance to ever actually properly score it, I thought it was close when I watched it late the night of the fight, I missed it earlier, due to doing another RBR. Rocky did far better than I thought he did. He used his immense size advantage well, he out muscled Ryder at times, smothered a lot of his inside work, and what he did smother, he rolled with or blocked. The majority of the 12 rounds were nip and tuck, with a clean punch here and there edging it one way or another. Personally I think Rocky did just enough to nick most of the rounds, a draw would be fine as well, but it wasn't quite as egregious as I thought it was, and if they rewatch it, probably not for the people who scored it live either. In retrospect, this was a pretty impressive win for Rocky, John had been a killer at SMW, and KOing guys left and right, and Rocky did well to take flush right hooks without going down, although he was rocked once, but recovered well. He was in with a superior technician in Ryder, adjusted to his adjustments and hung right in there with him the entire time and ended up outworking him in a close competitive fight fairly and squarely.

 

Good score... Every once in awhile we're in agreement.