Who saw Giardello W15 Hurrican Carter? Impressions?

Yeah he straight outboxed him. Carter finished fairly strong but not as much as the film makes out.

No way could it ever be scored for hurricane.

 

The movie ****ing sucks!

 

Carter bullied Giardello on the ropes, Giardello did the better pure boxing but Carter worked him over good and proper

Only watched the first 9-11 rounds but unless Giardello closed strong you're wrong

 

Giardello won the fight clearly, according to Boxing Illustrated ringside reporter Lew Eskin.

 

You've got to be kidding me.

Do you not favour clean effective punching above all else?

 

Yes but thought Carter landed plenty on him and you have to factor in effective aggression (and I would rate it effective), I've only seen the first 9-12 rounds but Carter edging it at that stage

 

The whole fight is on YouTube IIRC.

 

Clear win for Giardello on my scorecard. He outboxed Carter and was the more effective puncher.

Carter managed to corner Giardello at times but he did little effective work with it and most of his punches landed on shoulders and gloves or were slipped.

Again, on my scorecard it was a clear win for Giardello.

 

A could have gone either way fight.

Carter's film made it out to be a robbery, which in turn invited the inevitable backlash which was overdone with many claiming it was a wide Giardello win\boxing masterclass.

In fact it was seen as a tight fight that was generally also seen as a fair decision at the time...though many fights of similar competitiveness have gained reputations as robberies or being notably disputed throughout boxing history(rightly or wrongly)

Giardello was past his best, had lost a few notches in the reflexes department and really struggled with Carter's handspeed, while Carter seemed to have first title fight nerves and was more tentative than usual.

One of those bouts where i find it very interesting to see what other people thought, because of the strong backstory in favour of either fighter you can find from various often dubious sources.Lets me see who struggles to dissasociate strong consensus opinions(and likely bias) from their own viewing, as blatantly very close evenly contested fight is very blatant:yep

 

Clear win for Giardello

 

GP lora, Giardello had lost his legs at this point coming off the Rivero fights and was probably fortunate to make off with the decision from what I recall. JG was running on pure toughness and experience at that point.