JMM-Casa, judges scores

According to Boxrec, the judges scores for the JMM-Casa fight were
one judge scoring 97-93 for JMM.....

.....and the other two judges having it even after 10 rounds, 95-95.

If JMM does'nt stop Casamayor, he'd likely have gotten robbed by split decision on the scorecards......what else is new!:-(

Boxing judges have become a complete joke, last week one turd of a judge gives the clueless Katsidis the fight over Diaz, this week there are two clueless turds judging the JMM-Casa fight!:-( :verysad

 

What it is that I have is the ability to see and judge for myself what is happening in the ring, and tune out what the commentating crew is feeding us......

Seeing is better than hearing when it comes to judging a fight.

.....during one of the last few rounds, after a string of clear rounds that JMM had won, Barry Tompkins tried to rationalize to us that the fight could be close on the cards.....during this, Tompkins said something to the effect that "that was alot better round for Casamayor, but I'm not so sure if you can give that to him.

The commentating crew was trying its damnest to try and paint a picture of a fight that was close, that they were relugating themselves to applauding Casamayor for having a better round than the previous, though admitting he may not have won it......
I think when a commentating crew starts to do that, what they're really doing is salivating at the mouth to try and create controversy.

Having a round in a fight where you did'nt get beat up as bad as the previous round, does not win you the round!

The commentaing crew last night painted a picture of the first 3 or 4 rounds being close enough to go either way......then JMM starts to dominate the proceedings, winning every round after the 4th through 8 quite clearly (thats a string of 4 clear rounds for JMM).....then Casa wins the 9th, and Barry Tompkins starts to babble about a contest that could be very close on the cards......

.....even by Tompkins rationalization, you'd have to assume that the judge would have given every one of those early rounds to Casa, to which he had said could have gone either way.

I think I would have had more respect for what Tompkins was saying if he'd have said out bluntly, "this fight could theoretically be close on the cards if you have Casamayor winning everyone of the closer rounds early on......
......but instead he's babbling as if the fight should be close on the cards.....its as if he's rooting for a close outcome instead of calling what he's actually seeing in the ring......

I dont always agree with Showtimes Al Bernstein, but the one thing I highly respect of him is when he gives his opinion of how he's seeing and scoring a fight, but then allows himself leeway by saying, "thats how I'm seeing it, but some of the rounds are close enough that a judge could have seen it different, so the official cards could be much closer.
Its as if he's saying, my word is'nt the gospel, but this is how I'm seeing it......
Bernstein is class when it comes to such issues!