Bakole va Ajagba, who really won?

Just watched now and this is how it was for me.

1 - 10-9 Ajaba
2. 10-9 Bakole
3. 10-10
4. 10-9 Bakole
5. 10-9 Ajaba
6. 10-9 Ajaba
7. 10-9 Ajaba
8. 10-9 Bakole
9. 10-9 Bakole
10. 10-9 Ajaba

5-4-1 Ajaba. I felt the commentary I watched was pretty biased against Bakole. It was definitely close in my opinion.

 

Mmm... For one card, yes... Two is pushing it, for me - which makes him unlucky not to get at least a split decision.

 

Ajagba won the fight and was robbed. He landed most of the cleaner effective punches, and made Bakole miss a lot.

I scored it 98-92 and even if I would have given all the fairly close rounds to Bakole, it's still 96-94 for Ajagba.

Bakole had a couple of good rounds, but mostly just stood in the ring not moving enough - his footwork is slow because he's overweight. He couldn't sustain an attack like in round 4 because he tired easily - in round 5 he did nothing.

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I think it was a close fight.
The decision was good in the sense that you can lean slightly towards Ajagba without feeling that a draw was unfair since Bakole pressed more and landed the more telling shots in some rounds. Credit to Bakole for coming back well at the end.
My scorecard :
Rds 1,3,5,6,7 Ajagba ;
Rds 2,4,8,9,10 Bakole.
There was some very close rounds that could have gone either way.

 

Ajagba threw away what could have been a clear win running and not fighting back much in the last 3 rounds. It's 96-94 if you give Ajagba the 2nd. it's a draw if you give it to Bakole. Very easy fight to score.

 

Draw pointing at Ajagba is the most Bakole could hope for. Trilogy in the makings.

 

For me it was very close as well. Bakole's work was underrated.

 

I had Ajagba out pointing the fat slob by four rounds. A few rounds were close.

 

Ajagba won it.

Not a great fight for me so I didn't give one jot about it being scored a draw.

 

credit to ajagba and his team they prepared very well. bakole has only himself to blame to come in heavy and not cutting the ring off. Its not known that ajagba has great feet either but he did well not to engage in a firefight and deserved to get the nod

 

The draw was fair. I have a bit of a hard time giving rounds to a man who is just running. Ajagba looked great at first. I actually thought he was going to KO Bakole at around round 3. Then Bakole warmed up and started landing, and Ajagba stopped doing anything except trying to pot shot and run. In terms of aggression, the entire second half of the fight was Ajagba wanting to be anywhere but in a ring with Bakole. By the end, Bakole still looked fresh, Ajagba looked banged up and beat to hell.

that’s my $0.02. For whatever it’s worth (likely around $0.02)

 

Does a draw, even if it was gifted, put Bakole back in contention title wise? I know he couldn't do the IBF eliminator coming of a loss, but could he be back in with a hope of a title show coming of a draw?

Just thinking about Turki saying he'll look after him after the Parker fight.

 

I did see some footage where Turki was giving Bakole a talking to. He didn’t seem overly happy. It’s kind of hard to sell a Bakole title shot or Parker rematch right now. A Bakole vs Ajagba rematch doesn’t make sense either. They don’t match up well together.

Actually a Zhang fight would be good for everybody. Zhang will come to fight and they both can bang. Zhang needs a rebound and if Bakole wins that one he regains respect. It should be fun to watch.

 

given how Bakole was one of the only man on either undercard to show up ready for an actual fight, can’t really imagine Turki was mad.

as to Bakole vs Zhang, that’s interesting. Bakole’s defense looked terrible. But Kabayel just showed a blueprint against Zhang, and Bakole can hit a lot harder than Kabayel. I’d really like to see this one. This isn’t an expensive one imo, but there’s zero reason they couldn’t headline a $20 card. I’d buy it. Because you know that would be pure action; they’d just stand center ring and trade. The longer it goes the more I like Bakole’s chances, he can at least actually fight for 10 rounds without issue (as he just showed).