Wrong perception of the fights

Nunn dominated Toney.

Vitali dominated Byrd.

Both are totally false narratives.

 

Donald Curry dominating Mike McCallum before getting KO'd. In reality the fight was dead even with McCallum slowly getting the better of Curry right before setting him up with a perfect left hand shot.

Carlos Zarate getting horribly robbed by Lupe Pintor. The fight was actually close and very competitive with Pintor finishing stronger in the end. The decision wasn't that egregious at all.

 

I actually had McCallum 3-1 infront I thought he was the slightly more active fighter in most of the rounds.

Although the rounds were very close so I could see varied scoring but Curry was certainly not dominating.

 

The Rumble in the Jungle has to be the biggest example of this.

I've talked to a lot people who thought Ali just shelled up on the ropes and let Foreman unload until he got too tired to continue.


In reality Ali was firing hard Lead right hands and quick combos from the start and at any chance he got.
The rope-a-dope was misconstrued into a foolish attempt at testing ones toughness against the opponents stamina.

Ali was pushing, pulling and resting his weight on Foreman to tire and off balance him.
He also parried, twisted and turned his body allowing most blows to slide off him.
He rarely took a solid punch on the guard much less a clean one to a target area. Even when he did he leaned back into the admittedly loose ropes to dispell the force.

 

I concur. I recently posted about this fight in
the what fights did you watch today\scorecard thread. I scored it 143-141 for Pintor.

 

Good mention. I had Taylor slightly edging edging Chavez on points due to having more landed punches from his flurries but Chavez was landing the harder, more damaging blows. Taylor was certainly not thoroughly dominating though.

 

Narrative that Saddler was the only one employing dirty tactics in his 4th fight against Pep. Anyone who actually watched the fight knows that Pep fouled just as much as Saddler, if not more.

 

Some really good examples here.

 

Ali-Foreman is the obvious one

Toney-Nunn is another one. Toney was coming on strong for awhile.

I think a lot of people remember De La Hoya-Quartey was a great fight because of two rounds. Much of the fight was a posefest.

 

Willard didn't quit against Dempsey.

 

I thought De LA Hoya-Quartey was a very good fight.

 

That JMM won a clear decision against Barerra. I thought that fight was closely fought throughout the 12 rounds and Imo I thought Barerra should have got the decision.