Thinking about my own cards I had em 10-2/8-3 Mayweather 8-4/7-5 (Canelo) vs Trout 7-5 (Canelo) vs Lara 9-3 (Canelo) vs Cotto 3-2 (Canelo) vs Khan Considering that idk maybe the Floyd or Trout fight. Floyd won 9/10 rds I thought it was a good fight Trout is had down 5-3 after 8 in a close fight, judges having him down 7-1/8-0 made Alvarez coast at the end letting Trout win rds he probably otherwise wouldn't have. I personally think this fight is more deserving of a rematch then Lara but Trout has fell off a bit. Lara was a close fight I think I had Lara up 3-2 after 5, thought Canelo took rds 6-9 off aggression and active Lara started to get touched to the body mid fight and opted to avoid then fight. The last 3 rds I had Lara winning the 10th and 12th, Alvarez the 11th. People talk about some clinic I don't see it result was a Split Decision so it was a good call. Cotto got outboxed IMO Alvarez put on a defensive and offensive clinic, people just expected a KO and don't give Cotto credit for being a HOF ATG type fighter. Khan to me won 2 rds and was losing the 6th before the KO 4-1 Khan is just as ridiculous as 4-1 Canelo
Lara vs Canelo the judge Levy Martinez (Mexican-American) 117-111 really robbed Lara of a fair decision at least Floyd won the fight.
True but viewed in a vacuum, without regard to how it consequentially affected the outcome, the drawn card versus Mayweather is objectively worse. Giving him 9 rounds over Lara is extremely bad judging, but giving him 6 with Mayweather is even more indefensible. Kind of like when Cristian Mijares had that bizarre split decision over Jose Navarro where Doug Tucker scored it a shutout for Navarro. That card later got overlooked when people were discussing the worst cards of 2008, on the basis that "Eh, he was fine, at least he didn't lose" - but that doesn't change the fact that Doug Tucker still turned in THE worst scorecard of the year/decade, by far.
C.J,Ross card was bad BUT was it any worse than the Canelo - Trout? Or the 118-110 of Morretti's in Floyd-Pac? Trout beat Canelo so did Lara. Oscar's $$ & influence got Canello the gifts
Yes, it was. Canelo got shut out, clearly. I've scored it the same twice now, live and in a replay three years later: http://www.boxingforum24.com/showthread.php?t=565108
Just wondering do you think these are mistakes? For me its clear as they they took money cause nobody could score those fights way they did without bribe.
Some of you seem to forget that boxing is pretty subjective and have a hard time accepting that others are seeing the fight through their eyes and not yours. There will obviously always be cards that the great majority of people will be scratching their heads at but most are totally appropriate, even if you disagree with them, and no worse than the score cards of those criticizing them.
In fairness to Elcyclon, he does have a point. Other than the Mayweather fight, a lot of the rounds in those fights were close so it is conceivable to have what looks like a close fight on the face of it, but has wide scorecards. Obviously, the thing to be looked at here is why is Canelo getting the nod in the vast majority of these close rounds - judges bribed or incompetent judges being swayed by the crowd?
they're all freakishly bad... but the draw against Floydweather kinda sticks out, followed by the Lara one.