Hopkins-Mercado - A Robbery and an action packed war

Just watched this fight and its a good 1, people only seem to remember the older Hopkins, but this Hopkins fights 3miniutes a round, continually comes forwards, looks for the KO/Execution, throws combinations to the head and body.

SPOILER - If you want to watch, skip over to youtube and look it up

First off I'm going to say Hopkins was robbed, he won 9 rounds on my card but it was a hostile crowd in Ecudar with some home cooking. I didn't see punch stats but I'd guess Hopkins threw 3-5 times as many punches, landed flusher/cleaner, beat Mercado to the punch, was the aggressor, had Mercado on the ropes for the majority of the fight and Mercado wasnt landing counters on the ropes. Mercado was certainly a banger though as many SOuth Americans turn out to be and hurt a somewhat wreckless Hopkins

1. Hopkins - BHOPs starts very fast and aggressive, looking for an early KO, lots of combinations
2. Hopkins - somewhat more cautious round, Hopkins outworks and outboxes Mercado
3. Hopkins - Hopkins winning early, Mercado was down but the ref ruled it a slip, Hopkins gets really aggressive putting up a hell of a pace really going for the KO after Mercado was down/hurt
4. Hopkins - Hopkins dominates the round while boxing a bit more conservatively in this round but is a little hurt late, you could give this to Mercado based on this
5. Mercado 10-8 - Hopkins dominates the round but gets caught and floored later in the round so a 10-8 for Mercado
6. Hopkins - Hopkins fights fire with fire and hurts Mercado who would have taken a KD if it wasnt for the ropes, could be a KD in some rule sets
7. Mercado 10-8 - Hopkins gets knocked down again after seeming to dominate the round, he is up at about a count 2
8. Mercado - Hopkins seems to be tiring and taking a round off, Mercado edges this 1
9. Hopkins - Hopkins turning up the pace again and getting on top
10. Hopkins
11. Hopkins - these last 2 rounds Hopkins is completely outworking Mercado, both seem tired as the fight is at high altitude and the pace is frantic
12. Hopkins - Mercado runs for the final round but still gets caught and hurt late

My Card: 115-111 - and it could be 116-110 imo. Closest I could have it would be 114-112 to Hopkins and thats with Hopkins not getting any of his KDs called.