Anybody have cunningham winning the fight

Score the fight. It was close.

 

I had it pretty wide for Adamek. He controlled the fight in most of the rounds, was coming forward making the fight. And he scored all those knockdowns. I thought the judge who had it 116-110 was right on the money.

 

Interesting name..... what are its origins?

 

I thought the judges' scores were crazy. It was a two-point fight, in favor of Adamek, as far as I could see.

 

A round can never be scored a 9-9 round under the 10 point must system.

Every 9-9 round you've seen is the result of points being deducted by the referee. If a fighter is dominating in the round and gets knocked down, it's usually scored a 10-9 round in favor of the other guy. In the case with Cunningham/Adamek, I scored the 4th round 10-9 Adamek.

 

I think the judges scorecards reflect exactly what we all were seeing, and thats a fight that was close but that had alot of close rounds that could be scored either way. When you have so many close rounds it's easy to have wacky scores.

 

Was close but Adamek took it for sure.

Those KD's made all the difference.

Steve had me nervous till the final bell.

 

I didn't but Cunningham closed very well and made it close.

 

Thank God you are not a judge. That round 4 last night was a 10-8 round for Steve no problem, until the kd.

 

It wasn't a close fight, IMO. Here are the contortions the judge who gave the fight to Cunningham had to make in order to score the fight 114-112 for him:

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=110566

Essentially, to get that score you have to say that of the 9 rounds in which Cunningham was not knocked down in, Steve won 8 and Adamek 1. That's not seeing a close fight, that's seeing a whitewash in the non-KD rounds that didn't exist, IMO. I can recall at least one of the early non-KD rounds from the telecast in which Adamek outlanded Cunningham, and that's just from memory and having caught the Compubox stats for that particular round.

 

I like Cunningham, he is a helluva fighter, a tough guy, and he has a lot of heart...however he didn't win that fight! I thought the fight was very close on rounds but even at that I thought Adamek edged him. Add the three extra points he got for the knockdowns and the fight goes from being close to being a clear victory for Adamek!

 

That is correct (or one version of how the scoring had to be; and that includes the 4th being a 10-9 round), at least to get the 114-112 score that the one judge arrived at.

The only way you can have Adamek at 112 points is if you only have him outright winning (that is, no 10-10 rounds) 4 rounds of the fight:

4 rounds won = 4 x 10 = 40 points
8 rounds lost = 8 x 9 = 72 points

72+40 = 112

Such scoring says that of the 9 rounds in which Cunningham was not knocked down in, Adamek won 1 and Cunningham won 8. That's how you get Adamek at 112 points.