Canelo v Golovkin: Was it actually a robbery?

It was no robbery.

 

Yes it was a robbery. We may all have our varying opinions, mine is he won as is most people but people like shadow are convinced it was the other way round and ask him to break it down he will do and he will do it very well. So there is legitimate arguments for all 3 outcomes, i suppose.

But I call it a robbery cuz Golovkin had to get the ko to win, atleast 2 judges were paid off. It just happened to be a close fight. If it had of been a 12 round beatdown by Golovkin we would of still had a draw.

 

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w/ a 118-110 score card. So yeah, it was a robbery.

 

This has been beaten to death. The only possible rounds Canelo won were 1-3 and 10-12, period. You scored round 6 for Canelo which was very clearly a Golovkin round. 114-114 is a possible score, but not a good one. How anyone could score more than 6 rounds for Canelo is beyond me. It was a bad decision for sure. Clear corruption.

 

I'm not sure robbery is the right word but it was certainly the wrong decision, IMO.

If the 3 cards were all 118-110 Canelo, then that's a robbery for example.

 

I'm the biggest GGG fan there is and I genuinely dislike Canelo & GBP.

That said, Canelo clearly won that fight. I'm also convinced the majority of """boxing fans""" have no idea how to watch fights.

Canelo landed the bigger straights and played matador to Gennady all night. Canelo made GGG miss all his big shots, I don't think GGG's back hand cleanly touched Canelo more than twice. Lukewarm jabs are not enough to beat better footwork and shot selection.

Make no mistake, Canelo was clearly on something... he had put on more lean muscle mass than ever and was faster too.

I hope we get the rematch this year.

 

It was a huge robbery, end of fight poll was 94% to 6% in Golovkins favor, so yeah it was a colossal robbery

 

It was quite cagey & both neutralized each others best assets in a way but it was clear GGG won a competitive bout, 115-113 was my score. ...

That being said, Canelo had to cheat to make it so! Which tells me everything about how a clean Canelo would do!

 

Give up. GGG won that fight!

 

canelo won 1-3 (with rnd1 actually being a toss up round) and 12th, which was again evened out by the end of it. that's it. Too many people giving rounds to fighters who go backward and do nothing. In order to win rounds like that you have to fight like Mayweather. You won't see him not answering attacks from the opponent and get jabbed all night. If you compare his activity in the GGG fight to Floyd's fights, you would see why he lost most of the rounds, including 2 of the last 3. And that brings me to another error people tend to make: so called comparative rounds, when a fighter is being awarded a round because he does better than in the previous rounds but is still outlanded and loses territory. Can't score rounds and fights like that. As a matter of fact, canelo got hammered in the last 3 rounds more than he did in the earlier rounds. Canelo lost, because he broke down after round 3. If he kept it the way he began, he would have won, but didn't.

 

It was fair.

Two things that are not scoring criteria:
1. Looking tired
2. Walking forward

Fans have been scoring against boxers looking tired since the beginning of time.

 

Is that Povetkin's head in your avatar?

 

Yes