First of all props to Wilder. Nice highlight KO. But those scores he was putting up were atrocious. Wilder looked terrible throughout the fight. He was clowned and fell on his face by a fringe contender. I used to have high hopes for Wilder, but he gets beaten by haye, Klitchko, fury, and possibly even povetkin honestly. I was not impressed. But the KO was nice I'm not going to lie. Just have to be honest
yep like I said he should start reading his scores with the catch phrase "I would like to thank Al Haymon"
I had it 76-76 (which is 4-4) but a couple of rounds were close so it could have been 5-3 or 6-2 to either boxer from the TV view. DW generally controlled the ring, both men had effective and non effective work. It is much easier ringside to count those scoring punches. 1st round I scored 8-7 (scoring punches) to Spilka same the 2nd round. Those first two rounds make quite a difference. No round was a total domination in those 8, but the 4th was fairly clear to Wilder. The bookies had Wilder always 3-1 on in play and you could have got 5-1 on Spilka after 8.
All 3 judges scored it for Wilder at the time of the KO, and turns out not Wilder but Szpilka needed a KO to win at that point. (77-75/78-74 x2) If it had gone the distance, we probably would have had another US based robbery on our hands (surprise, surprise)
Other than some posters on a message board, who actually had Szpilka ahead? Not the three judges. Not Farhood. Who? Because, if you read through the tons of anti-Wilder threads on this forum you might just find that all those people who had Artur ahead ... spend a lot of their time posting as Wilder haters. So I can't exactly trust their judgment.
Very poor scoring from the judges, this is another reminder of the massive advantage of fighting at home. It turned out to be irrelevant in the end because of the ko but I still think those judges should be investigated.