Gaballo was running into counters and doing the stanky leg in almost every round. A shutout is more reasonable than a Gaballo win.
I just watched this, does anyone know what happened here? I saw 1 clear round for Gaballo, 2 legitimately close, 1 where Gaballo accomplished something but I thought clearly lost, and the rest were dominated by Rodriguez. This is among the worst decisions of the year.
As an empathetic person, I can usually see some theory whereby you can justify a lousy decision. One side had the more powerful punches, was throwing more, or the reverse was boxing better and more accurate, but this time Rodriguez was the boxer, the puncher, coming forward with better defense in 8-9 of those rounds. He even stunned Gaballo and I thought when Gaballo fell into the ropes it should have been a KD.
The announcers were pretty bias for Rodriguez, but after watching it again, while Gaballo threw more volume and was a lot more aggressive, E.Rod was economical and effective. He stunned Gaballo twice clearly and a third time that was not as obvious, while E.Rod was never in real danger. Sucks for E.Rod, after losing to Inoue and then the Nery debacle.
