These 80s fighters vs these 50s fighters

Red rag to a bull!!!!

 

Hagler would have beaten LaMotta
Moore would have a good chance v Spinks
Holmes from the Spinks looked insane and would have destroyed Marciano
Tyson was more skilled than Liston and would have beaten him
Walcott would have out-pointed Spoon
Johnson v Qawi is a pick em
Charles would have built up a points lead against Holy but may be stopped late in a close match-up depending on what they weighed
Patterson would have beaten Dokes
Robinson was far better than Leonard.

 

But it's not the same. Saying 'split' decision is a comment on the judging.

As amateur speculators we only need to guess on how the fight pans out, not the judging.

We might, therefore, say it would be 155-113 to fighter A. You wouldn't add that you would expect at least one of the other judges to disagree. It shows a lack of conviction.

Besides, a split decision and close decision aren't the same. 115-114, 155-114 and 115-113 is a close decision. 117-111, 118-110 and 114-115 is a split decision. See the difference and what I'm getting at?

 

People aren't always perfectly literal in every aspect. If someone wrote split decision as a prediction, I'd expect them to mean a close decision, not an actual split decision.

I think you're looking into things too literally.

 

Ha! The old chestnut when you're wrong of telling the correcter that they are being too literal.

Like when I was at school and my maths teacher asked the square root of 5. I said 23. He said, 'No, Mr Ezzard. It is 25.' And I said 'Think you're taking it a bit literally there, sir.' That was about one second before the blackboard rubber hit me and I discovered I had a glass jaw.

Happy days.

 

Bit of a difference there Ed, since in that situation, you were wrong. In this one, you were being too literal.

Also, what middle-class pedo fairground did you go to where the teacher refers to the student by their surname?

And finally, 25 isn't the square root of 5, 5 is the square root of 25.

 

I went to school in the 80s.

When the weakest kid there would still have walked into your school nowadays and b1tchslapped your school hard knock.

Gawd alone knows what she'd have done to the likes of you.

 

ooh BAY-BUH! I wanna meet this lady!!!!

 

She'd have likely gotten her maths right in an analogy.

 

My first observation, is that they are all fights that could go either way!

 

She'd have likely not said 'Gotten'. She was English.

 

LaMotta v Hagler — Hagler W15, sweeps last 10 rounds after a fairly even first five

Moore v Spinks — Spinks W15 or maybe TKO late

Marciano v Holmes — Holmes UD near-shutout

Tyson v Liston — Tyson KO 3

Walcott v Witherspoon — Walcott UD15 pretty easy

Harold Johnson v Qawi — Qawi TKO 13

Charles v Holyfield — Holy W15

Dokes v Patterson — depends on what Dokes we get but I can see him out hustling Floyd for UD over 12 or 15

Robinson v Leonard — Robinson WUD (but competitive) 15

 

Holmes would catch Marciano with more jabs than he caught Norton with.

 

Why? LaMotta famously started slow and ramped up late in the fight. Hagler tired vs Vito and didn't sweep the final rounds vs him. Why would he vs LaMotta?