Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin vs. Sergey Vyacheslavovich Derevyanchenko RBR

That's what I call close really hard to score rounds. Something has to be the deciding factor, for me, that was the edge in power.

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I'll be damned, look at that. Only 50 punches landed to the body of Golovkin, the way many of you were going it, you'd think he was speedbagging him flush in it for 12 rounds.

 

I just rewatched and rescored it.

Round 1 Golovkin 10-8
Round 2 Golovkin 10-9
Round 3 Derevyanchenko 10-9, very close *
Round 4 Derevyanchenko 10-9, very close *
Round 5 Derevyanchenko 10-9, close
Round 6 Golovkin 10-9
Round 7 Golovkin 10-9, close
Round 8 Golovkin 10-9, close *
Round 9 Golovkin 10-9, close
Round 10 Golovkin 10-9, very close
Round 11 Golovkin 10-9
Round 12 Golovkin 10-9

117-110 Golovkin

116-111 or 115-112 GGG are fine as well.

I switched the 3rd and 4th to Derevyanchenko.

But I also switched the 8th to Golovkin. I came damn close to giving it to him the first time around.

The 10th stays as is. Sergey did some great work early on, but GGG came back to tag him repeatedly to the head and clean to edge it on my card. But it was razor close

The only two debatable toss up rounds are the 8th and 10th.

But no way to Derevyanchenko win more than 5 rounds of this fight. Sorry.

As per usual, GGG's jab made the difference. Sergey's wasn't landing clean or flush very often, and his body shots while many got through, most were being blocked by GGG's elbows. GGG's style has become very Mayweather like in his old age. Let me finish. Many seem to have a hard time scoring Mayweather matches because he's low output and his opponents appear to be whirling dervishes of activity. Well GGG in his old age is focusing on defense and accuracy, so he''ll stand there, let his opponent tee off on his arms and block gloves to the head with his gloves, then fire back a few rights or a jab. His opponent gets through with a few partially blocked shots, but GGG gets through with a handful of hard clean flush bombs. Therein where lies to quandary for a lot of people scoring his matches lately. He does just enough to nick most rounds, but look bad doing it. It's not pleasing and in no way does he look dominant, but he's getting the job done. But the fans are left scratching their heads and perplexed, to quote Max, he's not winning the "story of the match." But he still ends up being the sharper better fighter ultimately.

 

There's another wise quote that you should take into consideration..... "*****, who asked you?"

 

So I went back and rewatched it, then gave a well reasoned breakdown of why I saw the fight the way I did.

And your response is, well everybody else thought this, why didn't you?

Hive mind mass hysteria is a thing, This whole site fell under its spell last night. Congratulations, you're a lemming, who doesn't think for himself and relies on majority opinion to form his.