Israil Madrimov vs. Terence Allan Crawford & Jared Dovan Anderson vs. Martin Bakole Ilunga RBR.

You going too hard for a fight in which Bud was more aggressive and outlanded Madrimov. But hey he's foreign right?

 

You are a classless low life piece of trash insulting a great family.

 

It's a fair point. But you know boxing, you know that when you're a top star like Bud and you're going up against a relative unknown that if it goes to the judges cards the money fighter is more likely to get the decision. I mean, I personally thought Bud legitimately won, but I also said to myself in the late rounds that as well as Madrimov is fighting, it's hard to see Bud not getting the decision.

But I do think as well as Madrimov fought, he didn't quite let his hands go enough. And we've seen time and time again that judges generally prefer work rate over throwing a lot less punches even if you're accurate. The caveat to that is if the fighter throwing less punches and landing the harder shots is landing shots that are really eye catching and also how the opponent reacts to the shots plays a role in close rounds. The other thing was Bud was able to put punches together at times in what seemed like key moments in close rounds and maybe hs stole some of the rounds near the end. Bud took the big shots that Madrimov landed well and at times he stuck his tongue out at Madrimov and was giving the impression that he was in cruise control. Even though he wasn't, Bud was just so supremely confident in his abilities that he was able to withstand the big moments that Madrimov had and kept on peppering him from the outside.

So don't take the decision too hard man, you're not wrong for scoring it for Madrimov. There's definitely a path there, this was one of those fights that in my view could have legitimately gone either way, and I know I've said that before and you probably don't like hearing that lol but I think that's how most fans view this. But as always I respect your passion and scoring. While we don't always agree, you obviously have made some very good predictions so you know your stuff. I personally didn't score it too closely when I was watching it live but I do think this was a very hard fight to score because of Madrimov's awkward upper body and head movement.

So I would just say we all need some time to absorb what happened and I think there is a lot of room for debate over how this should be scored. When I get a chance I'll take a look at the specific rounds you scored for Madrimov and compare it to the judges scores and see which rounds you differ on. But this was a very entertaining night of boxing and I very satisfied with the quality of boxing we saw tonight. Just a great night of boxing all around.

 

Tszyu Fundora was close even when Tszyu was compromised certainly not an ass kicking like what Bud did to Spence.

 

She was best in the film Haunted (with Aiden Quinn IIRC) - classic English Rose, pale skin incredibly pretty, and happy to get all the goods out
I think the botox descent n everything started around Underworld i think, though she's not quite as obvious as some others I prefer to see folks grow old gracefully

 

Ouch!

 

As per.. the soviet lad gets jobbed... Crawford lost. The long time weight grifter fought someone more his own size & got found out.

 

Just finished watching this on a delayed feed - great fight for the purists with some really high level defence and feinting on display.

Crawfords reach was a big factor in his successes as I expected, it's such a potent advantage for someone as accurate and spiteful as Crawford.

Madrimov started pretty slow, resetting a lot - though tbf Crawford was resetting a lot as well - both fighters very cautious in the first 4 rounds with it being a real chess match with neither wanting to be punished for any mistakes. Scoring wise it was very hard with so little landing clean, Bud scored a few body shots and was more active which I feel made the difference, so I had Crawford 3-1 through the first 4.

I feel that there was a very subtle shift in the next 4, where Madrimov was starting to throw a bit more and start to catch Bud with the looping right, although not as clean as the later rounds. Again, due to the elite defences on display clean scoring shots were hard to come by - I had the middle rounds 1-3, with Madrimov signalled a bit of change around winning 6,7 & 8 on my card.

The championship rounds were where we would usually have seen Crawford pull away and finish the show after having figured out his opponent, but this was not the case, with the fight being super competetive to the final bell.

Madrimov probably had his best round in 9 IIRC, where Crawford showed grit and a chin after being caught with a couple of real peaches! Round 10 was closer but I think Madrimov did enough to squeak landing the harder shots.

Bud then showed why he is elite turning things back around, winning round 11 with that sweet double uppercut, and having Madrimov holding for the first time in the fight - Madrimov showed a great beard taking those shots well.

The final round I gave to Crawford as much based on his activity and taking the front foot and putting it on the line, although I think Madrimov scored the best shot in the round, it wasn't enough to win it IMO.

Full card - tho probably need to watch again to be sure!

IM v TC
9 : 10
10 : 9
9 : 10
9 : 10
10 : 9
9 : 10
10 : 9
10 : 9
10 : 9
10 : 9
9 : 10
9 : 10

So on first watchback - with a bit of sleepy grogginess - I had it a draw 114: 114

BUT this was a very hard fight to score, with very few rounds being CLEAR to either fighter IMO and lots of swing rounds, very fine margins!

I do feel a UD for Crawford was a bit unfair on Madrimov and he deserved at least one score card in his favour, but I think that was always unlikely in the US, and I think his cautious, efficient approach probably cost him a few rounds on the cards.

Great fight, and I think Madrimov at least desrves a return!

 

The good old days of boxing (sad face).

 

Exactly this and he didn’t even mention the top 2 boxers in the division afterwards who would absolutely murder him. Pathetic.

 

I pretty much scored it a draw myself..