Michael Katsidis vs. Ricky Burns & George Groves vs. Paul Smith RBR

When you look at it as a whole, yeah, Burns looks like the very clear winner, but it is scored on a round by round basis. And the rounds Katsidis did win, Burns was sitting on the ropes not doing anything. Throwing the odd punch every now and again, while Katsidis was pressing the action. What was your score, BTW?

 

Go look back at my score.

 

I don't see how anyone can say the fight was a theft, so many rounds could have swung either way that a wide win for one person wouldn't have been a theft and could have gone the other way.

If you are a Katsidis fan you should be disappointed in him for not learning and improving in his craft since he started. There is no place for him at 135 except as a semi-named scalp. He will never challenge for a title because he is terrible and unskilled. The fact that the fight could have gone either way with Burns tells me that Burns is on the same level as Kats, which is club fighter.

 

Here we go.

 

So,you've answered your own question.If Burns was inactive during the rounds he lost,that has no bearing on the fight as a whole.

 

Thought Kats was the favorite?

We had the same score at the end of the day (7-5 Burns). Always nice to get into this "I'm right, your wrong" discussions IB. :conf

The bold is quite a slippery slope and actually not true in a legal sense (The Queens-berry rules don't say you can hold, wrestle, and grab only if not overdone. The question there would be what is overdoing it?). And in the way to which Burns did it is practically illegal in my eyes, thus I penalized him for just leaning on and grabbing forward on to Kats merely to hamper his activity and ability to punch.

 

Burns won easy, the rounds he won were clear the rounds katsidis won was close rounds, 115-113 Burns and i gave close rounds to Katsidis

 

groves wins this by ko... im predicting round 7.


lol i didnt know smith had the chin of a small boy. groves has too much ammo for a guy like smith.

 

Cagey first round not much between them BIG RIGHT HAND BY SMITH. Well, **** it, I give Smith that round.

 

What's up with sound?

 

Smith looks good and has shaken Groves up with his hooks, Groves is using the jab but it's weak and not holding Smith off. Problem is Groves is gonna have to make Smith respect him, and didn't do that in the first round and unless he does that in the next two rounds it's gonna be a hard fight. Can see it being very close.

 

10-9 Groves. The end was good for Smith but that is it.