Leigh Wood vs. Michael John Conlan & Gary Cully vs. José Miguel Vázquez Bautista RBR.

Great news. Classy kudos.

 

Nothing you said was out of line IMO but had Wood not scored the TKO I would still have Conlan winning by a point. Or two.

 

Actually three unanswered punches thrown nearly instantaneously, which is why in real time from the back angle, you couldn't see the punches and Conlan looked like he just collapsed.

 

Great fight. One of the best I have seen in years. Conlan fought a masterful fight thru 8 but Wood came on like a champion in the champioship rounds and pulled it out in dramatic fashion. Fights like this one are why I'm a fan.

 

Just got back to catch the rest of this one. Wow what a crazy great fight!

 

gutted for conlan although leigh deserves all the praise . Tyan booth said that leigh had the heaviest hands of anyone he ever sparred with including heavyweights. Absolute hammers.

 

That guy has become my favourite fighter overnight and he deserves all the wealth and success he has coming and more. Just a thoroughly decent, hard working family man with the heart of a lion.

 

Great, great fight. Gonna be tough to top as FOTY. Since Conlan is okay, they can run it again.

 

Agree i had it 94-93 for Conlon

 

There was quite a few echoes from Benn v McClennan looking back at the fight.

I am not sure either boxer will be quite the same again - fights as savage as this usually exact a toll.

 

Amazing fight with an explosive ending.

 

Scoring in the cold light of day, 106–101 is absolutely legitimate. (The Notts scorecards weren't outrageously bad, but the 104's were too close.)

Rounds were not hard to score. 4 and 8 were Wood's, but he was soundly outboxed (and frequently outpunched) in 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7. Wood was putting the pressure on in the 9th, but the quality work was clearly Conlan's to an extent that has to outweigh Wood's hustle. The 10th was a Conlan round — granted, Wood came on late in the session, but if a round in which a man was outboxed for two minutes can just be turned on a strong barrage in the last sixty seconds (much of which Conlan eluded, amid some good connects), then an argument could be made to give Conlan the 8th, which Mick finished strongly and which Wood looked a little wounded at the close of. As for the 11th, the fateful exchange in the dying seconds of the session not only ruined a round Conlan was winning, it hurt him (Conlan did slip to the canvas, rather than being typically knocked down, but as the result of the hard left hook of Wood) — though Mick bounced up gamely, that punch took all the strength he had left and he was overwhelmed in the 12th.

That's not a knock on Wood. He showed immense stoicism, toughness and persistence to grind out the result. He made his own luck.


If anyone's scorecard is egregious, it's certainly not your 105–102 for Conlan, nor a 106–101 for Conlan (my score), it's Fritz's (@f1ght3rz's) 105–102 (7–4) for Wood, which isn't remotely defensible, no way no how. Guy needs to calm down, he's been frantic lately.



We've been talking about the Laras and Warringtons and Kikos as possibilities for Wood moving forward, but, if Mick is okay to box again (and it seems he should be), this could be the start of a classic rivalry.

 

You are correct, eight rounds for Conlan isn't remotely insane. What's insane is seven for Wood, which is exactly how many Fritz awarded the Notts man.

 

Why should I calm down? I made 14k of cash last night with Farias, Wood and the under in Cully/Titere.... Count my money *****

I was biased as ****. But who cares? Wood was taking over in the second half anyway. He beat the crap out of Conlan in those last few rounds and finally got the KO.

My scorecard in favor of Wood was definitely too wide but so was 106-101 Conlan which was a ridiculous score as well.