Moses Itauma vs. Dillian Whyte & Filip Hrgović vs. David Adeleye + Nick Ball vs. Sam Goodman RBR.

Now, Goodman went in there and fought his heart out—you can hang your hat on that. Sure, the judges’ cards had him come up short, but let me tell you, that ain’t no shame. That’s what I like to call a good loss. A good loss, folks. Because a good loss is a fight where a guy loses the decision but wins respect, and Goodman did just that. He fought well in a losing effort, and sometimes in this racket, that’s worth more in the long run than a paper W. You walk out with your head high, your stock up, and the crowd talking about you. That’s the kind of loss you don’t mind carrying on your record—like a badge instead of a bruise.

 

Like I said, depends on what you like. Ball was always hitting the more impactful flurries, but he was ragged, and Goodman scored a lot of less impactful shorts with better technical boxing.

If you favour the harder leather, then I can see 117-111, 118-110, but as an objective scorer I try not to favour the same thing every round and be more objective.

 

Who do you represent Macho ****?

 

Goodman showed his class he will be back. Go home beat a couple of Filipino bums then a top 10 guy and he's back in contention. Or if Inoue moves up maybe he can go back to 122 and fight for one of the vacant belts.

 

118-110 and 117-111 cards are diabolical. How these judges can go home and watch the fight on tv and think yeah I did a good job there is beyond me, theres no way they can.

 

If Inoue carries his power up, it could get ugly.

 

How many times do we see cards like this? This was a pick 'em fight. Could have gone either way. I have no problem with it going to the champion because he may have done a bit more. But I get tired of these lopsided cards for the home man and then have to listen to the commentators give lame excuses as to why the cards are so wide.

 

At least when I'm dishonest, it's 'onest dishonesty.



It's just gotta be give and take...

 

Goodman is literally Jeff Horn 2.0.

 

A-side rimming from the commentators continuing even in Saudi. Disappointed in Andy Lee.

 

Blatant omission there. The cards did not in any way reflect what just took place.

 

F me dead boxing is a bull**** scored sport, how could anyone score that 118-110... I had it 95-95 at one stage.

 

At least his card was close.

 

Do they even care? That's really what we need to ask ourselves.

 

Does anyone think Whyte could be weight drained ? Being his lightest weight in a decade im not sure how physically strong he will be.

Not that I'm saying its a bad thing that Whyte seems to be taking the fight serious. But it does seem to be quite a drastic weight change in your late 30s.