Ringside vs. TV: My experience

Oscar v Tito, how did that seem live?

 

Could you discuss Lewis-Holyfield II?

How vulnerable was Lewis had Holyfield been younger and able to turn it on and keep it on?

 

Cheers magna. I too had Oscar winning wide.

Interesting post regarding Lewis v Holy 2. Who do you think they do prime for prime?

 

I've only ever been to one fight card live, when Bernard Hopkins fought Steve Frank for the middlweight title.


The first six or seven seconds were kind of hard to score, but it got easier.

 

I was at the Adamek-Cunningham rematch this past December. I had Cunningham winning 8-4 or 7-4-1. I, along with most people at the fight (mostly huge Adamek fans, especially where I was sitting), felt Cunningham deserved the victory.

Upon rewatching, I still felt Cunningham deserved the decision and that the judges were wrong.

 

Can I get your view of Whitaker vs. Hoya

 

Chavez-Whitaker seems pretty close live.

 

The Polish fans there were ecstatic with surprise when Adamek was declared the winner. The Cunningham fans were angry, and us neutral fans were disgusted. I saw several Polish fans walking away shaking their head with a smile.

 

Magna,

the points you make are interesting, i think. In fact, i think that it is one of the reasons why people are often to quick to overturn decisions just for the sake of it. Sometimes TV does not tell the true picture. And people often forget that it is the judges and not the public who need to be impressed. THe problem is that some judges seem to be scoring not based on who they think is winning but on who they want to win. That is very sad and seems to be a problem generally. IN fact, i think we are now at a stage where it would be better to have No Decision fights, or do something to completely change the scoring. Maybe something like one point for a knock down? There would be a lot of draws but far less controversial. It is like that anyway. Most people dont even accept the results of close fights nowadays anyway.

There is a very interesting article floating around from when film was in its infancy where jack johnson describes the jeffries fight to a reporter, at its theatre viewing. He would often say "that one really hurt" at times where the film appeared to show a glancing blow and often what looked like clean blows he would comment that it didnt hurt at all.

 

I didn't have it a draw but I had it only 2 rounds for Whitaker. I think it was Pat Putnam who agreed with me on the scoring. Anyways, I didn't feel it was a robbery just a decision that disagreed with my card.