Late change made to referee and judges for Fury Wilder III

And Bayless will never live down being floyds personal bodyguard or his hideous favoritism of Wilder in the second Fury fight.

 

Julie Lederman

 

Low blows and cigarette allowed inside the ring

 

I somehow don’t think the judges are going to be needed on Saturday night whoever wins. I think we shall get a knockout irrespective.

 

116-112 means he scored it 8-4 to Usyk which is what many people had it. Either 9-3/8-4 Usyk. Fair score.

 

Fret not, 2 Fast has got everything in hand.

 

How'd you know I was a hair away from slipping that exact reference in there when I made the post?

 

If you started that post with "OK Jim" i'd have though Harold was in the house.

 

I know, but the best score is 118-110, 117-111 is fair enough. 116-112 ... I can't see a fourth round for Joshua unless you're wearing high-grade champ specs. It's not a terrible scorecard though, at least it makes sense unlike Foster's, hence why I called him 'OK'.

Know what else he's scored as far as big events go?

 

Well it's just a case of agreeing to disagree then. Because you could easily give Joshua 3 of the 4 middle rounds, which many people did, and the 2nd round was close and many gave that one to Joshua and many gave it to Usyk.

8-4 is fair enough. It's not rose tinted at all. Joshua had his strong rounds, and some other rounds were close and could go either way.

Look at it this way 8-4 was what the UKRAINE judge had it, and it level 4-4 in rounds after 8 rounds.

This is because Usyk started fast, then took 4 rounds at a slower pace to build energy for the late onslaught.

In my eyes it was either 9-3 or 8-4, but I gave round 2 to Joshua after rewatching it, because I thought he edged it, as well as 5,6 and 8.

I fail to see why you'd have scepticism towards a judge because of that 8-4 scoring. One of the other judges had it almost the same at 117-112, meaning he scored a round 10-10 rather than 10-9 to Joshua, which also makes sense.

 

It's not a case of being skeptical, like I say - it's a fair scorecard, just not an extremely good scorecard. If I thought it was questionable even if the numbers were fair he would go decidedly into the 'bad' category.

Problem is that a lot of judges that aren't terrible or corrupt do nonetheless show a bias towards the champion, and this is the easiest way to explain giving Joshua those rounds. Although you can argue the punch stats were close, that's only part of what you're supposed to be scoring for, ring generalship, defence, and effective aggression all favoured Usyk throughout the contest.

As such he goes into the 'OK' category, which is better than the vast majority of judges.

 

I think you can view a list of all the fights a given judge has scored, along with how they scored each fight, on BoxRec.