How did you score Bellew-Chilemba?

so he says. i never read too deeply into these type of rumours but he did clearly win the fight anyway. I thought he was very intimidated by Bellew and had he not let himself get too intimidated early on he could have won a shut out.

 

If a round is completely even based on work rate and effective punches i agree the only time i would disagree is when all other categories are equal then I'd give the round to the person who forced the action.

 

How can a 'judgement' with no empirical evidence to question it, be wrong? I only watched the fight after hearing about the fuss, and had Bellew winning 7/5. How can that be wrong, surely it is an opinion of its time?

Are you suggesting peer pressure should be used to manipulate the judgement? Or are you suggesting some warped democracy should dictate the values of right and wrong?

 

I think anyone saying there's a definitive way to score this fight is wrong. It was very close and it could have gone a point either way. For once the draw was the right decision, IMO.

 

More or less agree with this, I didn't feel there was an issue with any reasonable score, and reasonable would be close due to the fact most rounds were reasonably obvious.

Even forgetting round by round scoring, when I take the fight as a whole a draw feels fair. Chilemba started very slow, he provided very little early and I find that incredible in a fight of this magnitude. But Bellew lacked guile, and even his effort tailed off and Chilemba's grew so from that viewpoint it more or less evened out.

 

I can live with that.

 

Chilemba 115-114. Bellew narrowly won his rounds on workrate, Chilemba won his rounds pretty clearly with accurate punching and superior defence. If Chilemba took the first few rounds seriously then he would have walked it.

 

Chilemba doesn't carry any real power with a 40% KO ratio. He'd never stop Tony in a year of Sunday's.

 

I had Chilemba by 7 to 5. Close fight and no robbery.