A knockdown does not automatically mean a 10-8 score

No it does not have to be 10-8....however most judges do score it that way unless the guy who gets dropped dominates the remainder of the round. No fury did not dominate those rounds hence the unanimous 10-8 rounds even through media cards

 

The Wilder rounds were 10-8s. Fury was in trouble.

If Gvozdyk had his knockdown counted, which was a flash knockdown of Stevenson in a round with no action, that could've been 10-9.

 

True, but most judges now days automatically make it a 10-8 round, even if the other boxer was handily winning the round. That being said. Fury wasn't beating Wilder from pillar to post in any round of the fight, let alone in a round where he got knocked down, so the 10-8 rounds were the right score.

 

I love how these guys always try to come up with ways to justify their man winning. I remember in the first Ward/Kovalev fight, someone suggested that if there is only 1 knockdown that the fighter that administered the knockdown should automatically win. Do you think he was a Kovalev fan or a Ward fan? LOL

 

It does happen in rare cases. The fighter who gets knocked down automatically loses a point but can score a 9-9 or in some cases 9-8 I believe?

I believe Maidana vs Khan was scored 9-8 in round 10...margarito vs Cotto round 9. But these are extreme examples and hardly the norm

 

When was it different? I cannot recall a time when a round was scored 10-9 after a knockdown, unless the dropped fighter comes back and hurts the other fighter.

 

Even still Wilder lost. No way around it 9-3 wins the fight. Even 8-4 wins the fight. Wilder didn’t win no 5 rounds to earn the draw. Floyd, Ward, Lewis, the entire announcing team they all know what was up. Wilder was outboxed. Plain and simple.

 

In a razor close fight that would seem logical,learnt something last night as I thought it was nailed on 10/8 with a knockdown,given how Fury was a second away from losing the whole fight it’s not harsh him losing the round is it?

 

The 12th should not have been 10-8, Fury had landed the better punches earlier in the round and then finished it on top of Wilder who looked ready to go.

 

On the BBC Abel Sanchez had it 8-3 to Fury going into the last round.
I dare say had Wilder not got the knock down in the last round it would still have been awarded a draw.
I’m convinced now how this was planned,read a post on YouTube a while ago from someone who suggested that both guys had too much to lose and that it would be a draw.
Ok so whilst they can’t control what happens in the ring,they can control the scores so long as they both survive twelve rounds like Canelo did,they can do the rematch.

 

I agree. Fury was landing heavy shots in the last round and he was dominating, it was a clear 10-9 Fury round if we are excluding the KD. From 10-9 Fury to 10-8 Wilder in a few seconds because of one punch is heavy. But it's seems legit. Fury was nearly stopped there, 1-2 seconds away from being knocked out. I would love to see more rounds like that getting scored 10-9 for the guy who scored the knockdown but everyone (including me) is scoring those kind of rounds 10-8....no idea why. I guarantee you if sb. would have score it 10-9 Wilder most of the guys here would have been out of order.

 

So what you saying,it should of been 10/9 to Wilder as there’s absolutely no way you can convince me that a guy felled like that,unconscious for 9 secs should somehow win the round?

 

Nope! I'm not 100% on what the scoring should be. Say fighter A is pummeling fighter B and fighter B lands a hail mary punch and drops fighter A. Fighter A gets up and continues a one side beating. Is that round scored 10-9 for fighter B, 10-8 for fighter B, 10-9 fighter A or 9-9?

 

I think 10-8 is fair most the time, because if you catch someone flush and drop them I think you deserve a bigger reward for that, even if it is only one punch.