Anyone here think Jeff Horn deserved the decision against Pacquiao?

115-113 Horn.

 

When there's a belt on the line I've always thought it's tough to side with the challenger in razor close fight.
If I remember rightly the Rungvisai win was called controversial?

 

. Here are the press scores at the time. Shanahan14 counted them 55 Pac 7 Horn 5 Draw.

 

Controversial to put it lightly. 441 to 284 landed punches according to compubox and 284 gets the decision. I feel like smashing my computer every time someone says "Close fight. Could have gone either way."

Close fights are affairs were there is maybe a one punch difference per round. Canelo Lara was 9 or 10 punches separating them. That's a close fight. Rungvisai trailed by 157. Gonzalez tripled his connects one round.

 

Definitely ruined him as a fighter as it was a brutal affair but one that Gonzalez won imo.
The rematch left no doubts lol.

 

You do see guys on here who are by and large subjective up until it involves their favourite fighter.
I'd like to think I can rise above that?Canelo v Golovkin 2 was a close fight imo and I had Golovkin by one round and that was considered controversial,probably cause you can only make a case for a draw for Canelo.

One of the worst scores I've seen was Taylor v Postal?that was a close fight and Taylor had to pull it all out at the end,and yet Postal hardly won a round lol.

 

Exactly it's disappointing people have tried tainting what was such a big successful event for boxing in this country with unfounded claims of corruption,when the reality is it was a close hard fight with plenty of close rounds that could have gone either way and doesn't even rate as being a robbery or hometown decision compared to the far more obvious examples that plague our sport to often.
I know it's not unusual but there a few people in here who seem extra salty about the result wanting to insult anybody scoring it for Horn.
You have watched a ton of fights as well as this a few times,did you see anything to justify some of the ridiculous claims of a few in here that Horn should have had points taken away or even DQ'd ?

 

I'll admit that Rungvisai impressed me the first time against Estrada and he's more than a strong brawling plodder, but his technique was non existent that first fight. He didn't go down under a rain of punches because he's a beast but you can't stop punches with your face like that. Gonzalez beat on thE man like a drum. Almost everything landed. Gonzalez connected 43% of his shots like he was Floyd Mayweather on speed.

I don't know if that fight took a toll, or why Gonzalez wasn't the same later. Could be family problems, woman problems, promoter problems, injury.

 

Yea you are dude. You have your mind set on an outcome. I've seen you argue in RBRs dude. And not only that but you completely ignore things you deem irrelevant. Clearly we take the cheating into consideration. I don't reward cheaters. By your own admission you do.

 

That's the ***** of it. The rematch validated the earlier robbery in the minds of the fools who scored it for Rungvisai. Imagine if people used the same logic with regards to Jersey Joe Walcott getting robbed them knocked out against Joe Louis.

 

Gonzalez vs Rungvisai one is a lot like Ggg vs Canelo one. Haters use the official win in the second bout to claim Canelo won both. It's infuriating.

 

Where do you stand on Corrales spitting out the mouthpiece? Ali's split glove?