anyone else watching the fights tonight?

That was poor judging...

 

I don't know if it's robbery. I felt Verno was landing the cleaner and harder shots throughout. And maybe that's how the judges scored it.

 

I'm sorry but Phllips got outworked the majority of the fight. Spinks was boring as usual but he did enough to Win!!

No way on this planet or any other that Phillips won 116-112:rofl

 

Phillips landed shots but not consistently enough. It wasnt as if Spinks wasnt countering and landing. This is ridiculous.

 

This is a very, very bad decision. In terms of sheer inaccuracy of the total points across the judges' cards, I'd have to say it's worse than the likes of Huerta-Diamond and Casamayor-Santa Cruz. This should have been close to a shutout for Spinks, maybe a few of the closer rounds to Verno. People might not agree that this is a worse robbery than those other fights, simply because Spinks isn't the most sympathetic figure in the sport and in those others people found it very easy to get behind the victims emotionally. But in terms of the discrepancy between roughly what the scores ought to have looked like, and what got turned in, this is worse than anything recent I can think of.

 

WTF is going on here?

 

I look for clean, hard shots as the primary criteria of how i score fights. So maybe, that's why i had it closer.

 

Spinks landed a few of those too. In some of those exchanges - many, in fact - he landed more. You judge each individual round by who is more effective throughout the entirety (that's three minutes) of the round. Not who lands heavier leather in one or two exchanges in a round containing several.

 

True.

But for me, i look mostly for the harder and cleaner shots. Anyone can land shots. But who can land the harder and cleaner shots where you sit down on your punches and it connects flush? That's harder to do.

 

Too bad, just too bad.

 

3 hard clean shots land a round doesnt cut it. He had no knockdown's and Spinks out worked him. This is insane judging 116-112 Philips HOW??

Phillips moments were frustrating becaus they didnt last and Spinks countered most of em.

 

So then you always score rounds for the harder puncher, regardless of whatever else either fighter does? That's ****ing nuts, man. So then how does someone like Kassim Ouma, Zuri Lawrence, Ivan Calderon, Felix Sturm, or James Toney ever stand a chance of winning rounds on your scorecard?

It also sounds like you're crediting Verno for how clean a few of his flashier thudding blows landed - when a lot of that can clearly be attributed to Spinks abandoning his defense and foregoing head movement during the exchanges inside. You can say Spinks lost part of a round due to his own stupidity, but you can't make it out that Verno is some kind of monster who can connect with full power on the button at will - that just isn't the case at all. Also those punches, while eye-catching, rarely came in great enough quantity or with enough frequency to counterbalance the superior, (if less breathtaking) work Spinks was usually doing for the rest of those rounds.

Hard punches are good scoring criteria, as are clean punches - and hard, clean punches are even better. But they shouldn't be your only criteria, and a few of them shouldn't tip a round.

 

DOn King? That rascal set everyone up AGAIN!!! Well at least this time? He used LUBRICATION!! He didnt make anyone pay 49.96 to witness this robbery.

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Should known there's nos such thing as a Free Lunch:rofl

Thanks DK :nut :nut :nut

 

That's not what i said. I just said that what i look for first and foremost, is hard, clean shots. Of course i factor in the other stuff.

 

HAHAHA, C Money - well put...