Joyce v Jennings - how did you score it?

I didn't think the think was as awful as people are saying. It wasn't good but it wasn't that bad.

I had it 116-111 Joyce with the deduction I think. That fight was there for Jennings. He couldn't miss Joyce and produced some lovely counters. He just needed to be a little more active.

Joyce-AJ would be a lot of fun

 

The 117-110 scorecard seemed too wide, and that 118-109 was simply ridiculous.

 

Barry Jones is usually spot on with his analysis. He was the one who remarked that it looked like Joyce was trying to punch underwater.

 

Jennings did all the clean work but Joyce just about outworked him. 116-112 or 115-113 seemed right to me. I like Joyce but he’s a big KO waiting to happen, the other Brit prospect Dubois would take his head off.

 

Joyce won with a few to spare, mainly because his punch output was that much higher. If I was to analyze the actual shots landed clean it would be much closer. Jennings caught him clean multiple times but only the body shot early rocked him. Next guy that fights Joyce needs to target that area.

 

It was a hard, scrappy fight to score. Jennings landed the cleaner punches but Joyce was just far more busy, and even though a good portion of his output was dissipated on Bryant's gloves, a lot was also landing to the body and generally just kind of clubbing Jennings around, which is always going to catch the judges' eyes. I didn't see it as a robbery, but it was certainly not a fight to flatter Joyce by any means.

 

It's not just the workrate but the variety of his work, a lunging jab to the body, then another jab upstairs, then some random arm waving, then a pitty pat right left right combination, then some side to side movement with more arm waving, then another lunging jab to the body, then a clubbing right upstairs, then some random uppercuts, then doubling up a sloth-like left hook... everything is slow and clumsy and generally awful looking, but it's so mixed up that you have no idea how to defend against it all.

 

In the modern era this is the weakest era. Artur Szpilka was knocked out in 2 rounds by dough boy Adam Kownacki. Wilder struggling with Szpilka shows how bad Wilder is not how good Artur is.

Also kid Jennings has been fighting for a much longer time than Joyce. So I am not talking about age as in how old he is. I mean how his body has been beaten down.

So beating a washed up Jennings in a fight where most people think he lost proved nothing.