I had it 115-113 to Groves, no even rounds. Don't have my round scoring, but there was one really close round when I didn't quite have full focus, 114-114 would've been fair, as well as 115-113 in the other direction IMO. Won't be rushing to re-watch and re-score though, the decision was fair.
Cheers The fruits of a boring day at work I might email it to bunce on thu The 5th was the key round & the 7+8 were close. If you scored all 3 even DeGale wins by a round 2 out of 3 judges & ESB cant be wrong:deal
general consensus from the pub (was just like the old days - brilliant night) was a draw, but given that was so unlikely at that level then de gale would prob be given it. you won't be surprised that the place erupted when groves got the nod! do you think that american judges may have been a determining factor? i.e. that they possibly judge a fight slightly differently from us brits? also it seeemd that de gale was 'slapping' his jab again on several occasions.would that have been noticed and counted against him?
I think I had it a draw (I have a poor memory) Round 1 & 7 were toss ups but I wasn't surprise Groves got the nod I had a feeling his work in the 1st half of the fight won give him the edge.
well i was away for the weekend and its actually the first time i have listened to a full fight on the radio.....it sounded to me like Groves had the better of it and tactically had the better gameplan and frustrating DeGale into making mistakes. Sounded like a good fight disapointed I missed it.
R1 DeGale R2 Groves R3 Groves R4 Groves R5 Groves R6 DeGale R7 Groves R8 Groves R9 DeGale R10 Groves R11 DeGale R12 Even 116-113 Groves. On 2nd watch could see peoples arguement for DeGale winning round 12 which would make it 115-114 Groves but still thought the round was even
The groves degale judges were british. The american and peurto ricans were only used in the clev and gavin fights
Don't have my card or anything, but I said at the time and still say it was 115-113 Groves. I know I gave DeGale rounds 11 & 12, but it was too late by that point.
The hardest rds to score for me were 3 5 7 Those are the ones i changed on second viewing and maybe could again when i next watch it, i initially had 3 a close Degale rd but changed it to Even, i had 5 a Degale rd but changed it to Groves and had 7 a Degale rd and changed it to Even which left me with Degale by 2 pts.. Degale Groves Even Groves Groves Degale Even Degale Degale Groves Degale Degale Degale 116-114 Groves