Last 3 rounds of Froch vs Dirrell. How'd you score it??

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Here's my scorecard for the last 3 rounds

Round 10 - 9-9 Even
Round 11 - 10-9 Dirrell
Round 12 - 10-9 Dirrell


Pretty easy rounds to score overall. Couple points

1. After a dubious point deduction Dirrell clearly stuns Froch. Froch introuble against the ropes grabs the back of Dirrells head, clearly cuffs it and proceeds to land a few punches on the back of Dirrells head before missing wildly with a punch. Consider this a basic summary for Frochs offense the whole fight.

2. Dirrell comes out for round 11 clearly trying to knock Froch out. Outlands Froch by clean punching 19-5. The most telling point in the round is when Froch has Dirrell backed into a corner around 3:55 in the video and 2:19 in the round where Dirrell slips about 10 Froch punches and comes up with 2 big left hands that push Froch back.

3. Round 12. Clear Dirrell round aswell. Dirrell doesnt close as strong as he should have, but Froch is so crude offensively that he doesnt capitalize and cant land even with Dirrell pinned against the ropes. Dirrell lands the cleaner harder blows for the first 2:00 of the round, landing like 10 clean shots to Froch's 1 or 2. doesnt do much thereafter, but neither does Froch, winning him the round.


Amazingly, the Italian judge actually gave the 11th round to Froch. And I believe all 3 judges gave the 12th to Froch. Although the judges were competant enough to score round 10 9-9 a draw. Now even considering having the fight even going into the championship rounds, hell lets say you were drunk and high and had Froch up a point heading into the 10th, what could the judges have been watching to give Froch the final 2 rounds, or any of the championship rounds for that matter. Dirrell clearly lands the cleaner punches, hurts Froch atleast once, and was far better defensively.


Hopefully the judges in California are far better then the ones selected for Nottingham

 

And people wanna say that Dirrell didnt do enough. That the fight could have "gone either way"


Yet, I wanna know what exactly did Froch do to hold onto his belt but hold on to the back of Dirrells head.

 

10-8 round for Froch? Even though Dirrell had him stunned and arguably was winning the round prior? :think

 

You didnt think Dirrell won the round even with stunning Froch? :think

I dont give 9-9 rounds out judiciously myself. I feel a fighter has to impress during the round if either deducted a point or knocked down. Given that Froch was clearly hurt, Dirrell won the round and those the point or rather Froch lost it.

 

Not really, and not near the volume Dirrell was. Again point to what punches Froch landed of any significance in the 11th and 12th. 11th Froch lands a left hook, but Dirrell responds. In the twelth Froch lands maybe a few jabs and shoe shines a couple times to Dirrells body. Now compare that to Dirrell constantly pushing Froch back and rocking him into the ropes, at one point in the twelth Dirrell lands 3 punches that push Froch nearly out of the ring.

So how could you give Froch the 12th? On what criteria?

Sorry, you score boxing on clean punching, ring generalship, effective aggression, and defense. Dirrell won 2 of the 4 categories massively. Froch wasnt effective aggressively, and while he controlled the real estate in the ring it was really due to Dirrell's movement.

Again, this is boxing not MMA or bum fights on youtube. If you want to see brawling, cuffing behind the head, body slams, and rabbit punching you need another sport

 

So you felt Froch won the round despite being stunned? interesting. What exactly do you feel won Froch the round?

Also, in the event of a point deduction, you can score a round 9-9 if the other fighter wins the round.