Fury Wilder 1 Scorecard

yeah the KD’s made it close, although I felt at the time it still wasn’t enough. But yeah like you say bar the KD’s it would of been a landslide.

 

115-111 Fury

 

I think I gave Wilder only 3 rounds so 115-111. It was a robbery to score it a draw almost as bad as Lewis/Holyfield 1.

I honestly can't see how anyone thinks it was close but then you had some people even defend the draw between Lewis/Holyfield too so I guess it shouldn't be a surprise, some people simply score fights based on poor criteria or bias a certain style of fighter over another.

I often think some people score fights based on a fighters reputation of punching power and put to much emphasis on that. So 2 fighters can finish a round the lighter punching fighter lands more punches but because the puncher lands one or two decent shots which are no better than any shot the other fighter landed, they give the round to the puncher. In the case of Lewis/Holyfield I think Lewis reputation of being chinny cost him, so some people put too much emphasis on the few punches Evander landed even if Lewis was landing the actual harder shots his punches had less significance to some scorers because Evander takes them better.

 

Well I’ll just give you a breakdown as I saw Round 7. As that is probably one I am surprised you gave to Wilder. To be honest I went through every round two years ago, but since then I built a new computer, and have no idea where I put the file.

But anyway, this is the how I saw Round 7:

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30 seconds, literally nothing has landed yet. Wilder controlled the center of the ring, but Fury is displaying good fundamentals on defence.

1:00 Wilder is marginally ahead with a jab to the body, but nothing significant has landed for either fighter yet.

1:30 Wilder slaps Fury with the inside of his left glove - I'm not counting that, lol. Fury lands the best punch so far with the right hand in a one-two, and his defensive skills are starting to put him ahead. Though in fairness to Wilder, he did slip a couple of jabs which was nice.

2:00 Fury is starting to pull ahead as Wilder falls for a feint before eating a clean one-two. Wilder lands a glancing right hook. But Wilder is starting to head hunt, and Fury is making him miss repeatedly. Wilder gets tagged with an upper-cup before a clinch.

2:30 Fury is once again slipping Wilder’s punches. But Wilder manages to land a left hook on the back of Fury’s neck. This is better from Wilder as he is using distance effectively. Fury then lands another clean one-two, and takes Wilder’s left hook counter on the shoulder.

3:00 Wilder and Fury throw jabs at the same time. Wilder lands his. Fury continues to catch and block Wilder’s punches. Final ten seconds, Wilder lands a jab, but then undoes his good work as Fury’s upper body movement makes Wilder swing and miss wildly with two hooks.

Round ends.

So in summary, Wilder was certainly involved in the round, but Fury was landing the cleaner more telling punches. Wilder was certainly more aggressive in stretches, but I would be hard pushed to call it effective. Fury’s defence and upper body movement, was ranging from negating Wilder’s attacks to making him look a bit amateurish. Neither of them asserted themselves on the other in regards to who initiated engagements.

Moment of the round: Wilder buys a feint from Fury wholesale, proceeds to eat a clean one-two.
Comedy moment: Fury is backing into the ropes, Wilder loses his head and proceeds to miss 6 "punches" in a row, and gets tagged with an uppercut in the midst of it.

Round 7: Fury (cleaner effective punches and superior defence)

Curious how you see it.

 

Wilder fans desperately trying to raise his morale after the humiliation of the second fight. He blew it, he should have demolished that weight drained, rusty version of Fury who let's be honest was probably at 30% at best. All boxing experts felt he was absolutely mad for rushing in to face Wilder with insufficient quality tune up's against unbeaten active Wilder on an unparalleled KO Streak.

 

I think it's the nature of it that gets me...

If we were to agree, as you already have, that a draw on the cards is as generous to Wilder as it should reasonably scored, then we could presumably agree that if all three judges had scored it a draw, that wouldn't be an unreasonable result (ie: draw)...
The odds of that happening are pretty low, and the only reasonable way one or two could've leaned was towards Fury, so that's the correct result to call.

I would personally have said anywhere from 115-111 to 113-113 was a window of reasonable scores in this fight, given the KD's and the number of rounds that were debatable... To me, that means anything outside that is an unreasonable card.

Two judges had cards I consider within the bounds of reason - the third was a cartoonishly insane card.

This is why, to me, it's fair to call it a robbery - two cards were perfectly reasonable but the result of those two (ie: Fury win) was swung by the bad card.

If all three judges had put in 113-113 then I wouldn't call it a robbery, it would've been a bit of a freak event to have that happen but all three cards would've been reasonable so I could've respected it.

 

Re-watch the fight yesterday and i score it for Wilder. Got 3 even rounds, and i have it 115-114 for Wilder. Don`t see how anyone can score the fight for Fury, or to say Fury was robbed. No way Fury won that fight. He actually should have been happy.

 

8 rds to 4, 114-112 Fury. It wasn’t as one sided as It was made out to be, but you have to really try to give Wilder more than 4 rounds.

 

I gave Fury every round except the 2 knockdown rounds.

 

Incompetent useless Wilder could not dominate a 30% rusty Fury, he got shown whose boss in the rematch big time

 

Off the top of my head I think I gave Wilder 3 rounds.

The two he scored a knock down plus one of the early rounds. I dont remember which.

 

Wilder definitely. Fury was just way too inactive and doing nothing.