Kassim Ouma fighting tonight.

Something tells me Kassim is not his top priority at the moment.

 

To be fair though, while he should have won, he did not look world class. Roman made it ugly but Kassim did nothing to beautify it. The lack of regard this loss will bring Ouma is deserved not because of the result but because of his lackluster performance.

 

Roman won fair and square with clean,effective and hard punching. Ouma almost got bailed out in round 8 but not quite.

 

Explain? :huh

 

That depends. Official decision or general audience consensus?

 

Explain what? You can read can't you? Ouma lost that fight fair and square. He looked awfull and was getting hit by a ridiculous amount of clean hard shots. Those were the punches that got more credit than Ouma's BS punches . I had Roman winning by a point myself.

 

Saul Roman won fair and square.

 

I meant the last sentence, about the bail-out. What did you mean by that?

And to be honest I was even pulling for Roman after the first couple of rounds. Ouma's lack of commitment really shined through tonight, he did not look prepared to go 10 rounds with a live underdog and he deserved a rough fight because of that (if not even a career-damaging loss). And I certainly don't score all of Ouma's palm caresses as landed punches. However, you need to score objectively, and on a round-by-round basis. Ouma won five if not six rounds by controlling them and neutralizing Roman's height and reach. If the ref ruled a knockdown, you have to abide the official's decision and factor it into your score. Mathematically it is very hard to give Roman the win.

 

Oh just that the KD wasn't legit. I am sure you agree. That did make a big difference in the scoring and almost bailed ouma out.

 

Wow. Ouma lost?? To this guy?? He just got stopped by some nobody. This is a serious upset.

 

If Ouma had won a razor-thin single-point decision because of that ruling, the Roman camp would have legitimate gripe. It didn't come to that, so moot point. The fact is that if you invert the score range that Roman got, that more accurately reflects how many rounds Ouma won. Did Roman land the better shots throughout the fight? Yes. If you scored fights based on their overall ebb and flow, would things work out a lot differently? Yes. On a ten-point must system scoring round by round and then adding them up, did Roman win? I just can't see it...

 

Whether he "lost" or not is debatable. It was a very closely contested, ugly fight and he looked bad. Lethargic, vulnerable, wide and sloppy, you name it...amazing to think the same guy was considered a justifiable challenger for the middleweight title within the last year.