And that's not including the point deduction. Roman simply dominated the first half of that fight with brutal combination punching and Sri was missing A LOT of his shots. That's just what was happening. Roman was slipping or rolling with almost everything Sri was throwing. It is much clearer to see this having watched it in HD.
Yeah I think Gonzalez had at at least 4 rounds in the bag after the first half of the fight, and he certainly won the 12th. There was a lot of close rounds from 8-11.
After six rounds, I had Roman up 58-54 with the point deduction. Roman was simply landing better and cleaner combinations and counters and he was slipping and rolling with a lot of Sri's shots. That's just what was happening. At the end of the fight, Roman landed 150+ more punches than Sri all told--which is pretty telling. 1 - 10-8 Sri 2 - 10-9 Roman 3 - 10-9 Roman 4 - 10-9 Roman 5 - 10-9 Roman 6 - 10-8 Roman (point deduction) 7 - 10-9 Sri 8 - 10-9 Roman 9 - 10-10 EVEN --this round was really even in my eyes 10 - 10-9 Roman--Roman's cleaner punching won it 11 - 10-9 Sri 12 - 10-9 Roman For final scores of 116-111 Roman Roman won eight rounds in my eyes Sri won three With one round being scored even--the 9th. Roman wasn't really bullied in this fight and he's the one who was actually pushing Sri back at times and in my estimations, he had Sri hurt a couple of times in the fight and had him going backwards. Sri was the stronger guy when they were in-fighting but Roman landed better and cleaner blows when they were in-fighting. I can see a 115-112 scorecard for Roman but I can't really see anything less than that for the champ. Sri was literally running away from Roman at times in the 12th and was purposely holding--that is not how you beat the champ. The judging was quite simply incompetent as Roman clearly landed the cleaner and more telling blows throughout the fight. After watching it in HD, it is clear to see that Roman won the fight.
I thought Round 2 could have went either way. IIRC Lederman gave that round to Rungvisai. I thought Roman clearly won rounds 3-6, and round 12, but all other rounds were pretty much toss ups. If you give rounds 1, 2, and 7-11 to Rungvisai he wins the fight. I haven't seen the official judges cards for the fight, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were close to that.
