Draws That Were Really Draws

Meldrick Taylor vs Howard Davis Jr. was as legit a draw as it gets.

 

Wrong thread?

 

I remember listening to round-by-round updates on ESPN. At the end prior to the decision I recall thinking, "Geez, sounds like it should be a draw."

 

As I remember the fight, Thomas didn't jab enough; seemed either tentative or lethargic while getting out worked and roughed up for much of the fight.

 

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The problem with this is that Ray himself has gone on record and on camera as saying Tommy won their rematch. Granted, it may be easier for SRL to do so having stopped Hearns the first time, and with the conviction he'd have stopped Tommy a second time during those now deleted championship rounds, but a draw nonetheless remains a hard case to make with Ray's declaration that Hearns won it.

Eusebio Pedroza-Bernard Taylor. Challenging Pedroza in BT's native Charlotte, Taylor tried to literally run away with a hometown theft. Virtually no punching took place, although Bernard attempted a lousy Ali shuffle at one point, countered by Pedroza's vastly superior shuffle. Not enough happened to really merit a decision, although BT might have been penalized for his running on neutral turf.

 

You're right, and that's how the sports reporters described it on newscasts that evening, as an accurate draw.

 

Coetzee was also using both hands, but there was an element of caution on both sides. Gerrie was always concerned about his stamina, while Pinklon was wary of that Bionic right.

 

"A draw doesn't hurt anyone. Nobody wins, nobody loses, and everyone gets to fight another day." - Leon Spinks, after his second career draw against Eddie Lopez.

Leon was correct within the context of his career. I thought his draw with LeDoux was a reasonable verdict, and he went from Scott to Righetti, then Ali and the World Title.

Following his draw with "The Animal" (who blew the win by being penalized with the exact sort of deliberate head butt which knocked out Leon's two front teeth in sparring when he was first learning how to box), Leon stopped Kevin Isaac, then a huge, deadly and peaking Mercado for the biggest HW stoppage win of his career to very legitimately earn his shot at Holmes. (Bernardo Mercado is at least one stopped heavyweight victim of Leon's which Norton would likely have always gotten stopped by. Ken never survived a puncher of Mercado's caliber, and again, Bernardo was at his absolute best when Leon did it. Holmes was on a top three ATG HW level though, and Leon was actually one of the very few to win a round over Larry without decking him between Norton and Witherspoon.)

 

This fight was the one that first sprang to mind after reading the thread title i remember being very dissapointed at the time but after reviewing the fight many years later a draw as you say was very fair at the end of the day .

 

I felt Jermain Taylor vs Winky Wright was a legit draw. Though I only watched it once live so I may be misremembering.

 

Dude this fight was ace. Real good pace set through the fight, I think the consensus was Winky pinched it by a round but I've seen a few give it to Taylor by one or a draw. All 3 results were acceptable in my eyes

 

left of topic....dave shade had 59 draws on his record...there are names with more too..

http://boxrec.com/boxer/13658

 

To be fair, I scored Haye-Valuev a draw on fight night. I have no desire to re-watch it but I can't actually recall Valuev landing anything significant throughout the whole fight so the right man probably won despite Haye's cat and mouse like tactics

 

Recently I thought the Mike Perez vs Carlos Takam draw was legit. Make no mistake Takam looked way more impressive in the second half of the fight than did Perez but he gave away the first 5 rounds. 95-95 seemed accurate to me.