Floyd can't lose a round in their eyes. All Floyd has to do to win a round is make his opponent mist more punches than he actually landed, it doesn't matter if Floyd himself doesn't hit his opponent, as long as the guy missed more than he landed. atsch atsch atsch
That actually does seem to be true. They always point out percentages, and the fact that the opponent wasn't landing the cleaner shots, even if the opponent pressed the fight, dictated the pace, was more aggressive with his punches, and Floyd's output was kept to a minimum. If an opponent presses the fight and lands more, they'll still praise Floyd for "landing the cleaner shots" or landing at a higher percentage and accuse everyone else of not understanding boxing. Hell, even if someone throws more, dictates the pace, roughs him up, lands more, and lands at a higher percentage, they'll score the fight 115-111 in Floyd's favor. But hey, what can ya do?
It's not most. A vocal few.... I am sure you know how how a few can make the bunch look bad, when it's really only a handful of fans acting out.
They start claimimg that he won a fight everyone knows he lost, and claim he won 115-111 with the volume off.:rofl
Two judges had it 115-111, one had it 116-111. Most rinside observers had the same score. I guess they all congregated before the fight in order to predetermine what the score of the fight was going to be.
Most observers seemed to think the fight was a flat out robbery. Merchant and the announcers were furious, as they didn't even think it was questionable who won. Lederman as well, though that means little. They were just as close as other ringside scorers. What other sources had it for Mayweather by those scores aside from the judges? I don't think you could score the fight like that at all, even if you did have Floyd winning, which is plausible, as it was very close.
That makes plenty of sense. Mayweather was the prohibitive favorite. I guess Arum decided to pay off all the judges and the ringside observers despite the fact that nobody thought Castillo had much of a chance of winning.
Go watch Mayweather/Castillo II. Lampley remarks how many ringside observers gave Mayweather 8 or 9 rounds in the first fight.
Of course. He probably got written up for insinuating castillo was obbed. Don't mess with HBO and Arum.
Any ringside observer that gave Floyd 9 rounds is a ringside observer who has absolutely no credibility. Seriously, that is completely and totally ridiculous.
