GBP: Óscar Manuel Negrete Padilla vs. Alberto Ezequiel Melián & Leonard Báez vs. Moises Flores RBR

I stand by this score. You ban me for it, then make it a ****ing perma-ban...because I honestly feel that Nagrete won this fight and no threats of time off this site will change that opinion.

 

I watched the fight and scored it the way I god damned scored it.

Nagrete was more accurate and Melian throwing tons of slop at his gloves wasn't enough to overcome that, at least during this first viewing. Period.\

Now, you can ban me for disagreeing with the consensus opinion on this site (though not on others), or you can PM me and upbraid me to your heart's content. That's your choice. Either way, I'm done with this argument on this thread.You have your opinion, and I have mine. Let's leave it at that.

 

Chucky can't catch a break
He was almost goat level at one point

 

Well, you know me well enough to know that I'm an accuracy nerd...and this came into play during a few of these rounds.

I know that Compubox stats aren't the be all and end all, but in this case, I think they tell the story over the first couple of rounds. Melian was more active, but Nagrete, landed cleaner, better, and more over the first couple of rounds. Maybe you can give Melian credit for partial contact on some of those, and maybe a few of those rainbow rear hands wrapped around the guard...but to my eye, most of them didn't make enough clean contact to be considered as scoring blows over the first two frames.

That leaves four other rounds to score for Nagrete. I thought six, eight and ten were pretty clear for Nagrete, as well. A couple of other rounds were quality-quantity affairs. So, I guess a draw would be feasible, but for me, Nagrete looked the proper winner on the first viewing.

Chris is just mad because I slag off on Orton.

 

I guess it just seemed to me that a lot of Melian's shots to the body and head weren't getting through the guard, and the few shots that did catch my eye didn't do much to dissuade or bother Negrete. In contrast, Negrete was able to land cleanly in the first couple, and while those shots weren't necessarily powerful, they were forceful enough to redden Melian's features, cut him, and eventually convince him to try a different tactic and move forward.

We're at different sides of this particular chasm, I fear. Whatever. It happens.

 

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

95-95 DRAW