Doug Jones 'They Changed Their Scorecards to Give it to Clay'

1st rd is a 10:8 in favor of Jones due 2 only d ropes holding Ali up when Jones staggered him .
It is (called) a technical KD .

Calling d fight as a fight Jones won it , but even if going b d anal (no disrespect) 10pt must system , Play did not win d fight .

 

New York did it by rounds Frank. No 10pt must.

 

NY scoring used to drive my Dad nuts. This is indeed true: KD just got you the round, counted the same as winning the next round by the skin of your teeth.

 

We coached a couple guys got burnt by this system.

 

Senor Pepe and Frankenfrank have called it, then.......well, that's all the citation I need. It's settled.

 

The young Clay won this fight pretty clearly, but he was indeed given hell.

Great learning experience.

 

And therein lies the basic truth; I've seen the fight, Jones landed, countered and made a good effort, but the young Cassius, moving into one of his pre-title tough efforts, did not lose this fight. Plain and simple.

 

I can see someone scoring the fight for Jones on aggression and not understanding Clay's style. He came forward all night, but the thing is Jones took way more punches. Clay probably threw and out landed him two to one.

Jones' biggest round was round 8 when he landed three powerful bombs in the final minute, but he never dominated a whole round for three minutes the way that Clay does in the 9th. Jones' landed the harder shots but Clay landed more and did slightly more damage to his opponent overall.

If you score the first round 10-8 for Jones and call Clay going into the ropes a knockdown, despite the ref not calling it one, and then give the second round to Jones instead of scoring it even, the fight still goes to Clay by a point. But let's be clear, there are knockdowns and there are knockdowns. This wasn't the most devastating thing I've ever seen.

The only other thing that could have gone in Jones' favor is that I heard the commentator saying that Clay looked more tired than Jones in the fourth round. So even though Clay was doing a lot more punching there and exerting himself while Jones took a breather playing defense, I guess you could give that round to Jones too if you are of such a mind, because he looked in better condition. But by the end of the fight both fighters looked equally gassed and neither looked fresh.

There were no cuts, swelling, or bruising to score, so if you score for Jones it's probably because you liked his style more.

6 Clay, 3 Jones, 1 Even