Pea vs. Chavez; Your Opinion!

I think exactly the same as you regarding that fight. Pea was superb.

 

I didnt think that fight was that hard to score in the end. Pea was jobbed hard that night.

Everything seemed against him, even the commentators. I hadnt watched that fight in a while, someone made a thread about bias commentators and had a link to the first few rounds. It was horribly biased against Whitaker.

 

Early on it was, but by the end of the night even they were crying robbery.

 

The decision was a disgrace, on the same league as that of Lewis-Holyfield 1.

 

Absolutely, so long as the rounds are close. I thought it was a competitive fight, but a clear win by the better man who did enough to win most rounds. Similar to a fight like Hearns/Benitez in that regard. Another very competitive and highly technical affair going by the closeness of the rounds, but one where Hearns won wide due to edging most of the rounds.

 

Similar to how you did. A few rounds that could've gone either way, but very few clear rounds for Chavez. Most of the clear rounds went to Pea. Around 9-3, 9-2-1, something like that.

 

Just so you know there's still some asshats who maintain Chavez deserved the draw because Pea 'ran'. Sheesh.

 

Ferdie Pacheco even went to Chavez first after the fight for the interview, as if he was more the winner in the contest. Showtime were THAT far up Chavez's ass.

 

Moving along.... I dont have my exact scorecard but I scored it for Whitaker.

Most rds were close & even the ones that I gave Chavez could have gone to Whitaker.... Pea was competitive in every rd.

Also, Whitaker had 3 big rds... rd 3, 7 & 8... he dominated & outboxed Chavez in those rds.

The only way I can imagine those 2 judges scoring a draw is if they gave Chavez nearly all of the close rds but thats still wrong IMO because Whitaker controlled the pace & movement in EVERY rd, that should count FOR him in those close rds.

This from a guy who likes both but likes Chavez more.

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