What is the worst Canelo scorecard?

the judges had him all beating khan when he didnt even win a round

 

Mayweather draw. I like Lara and love the Cuban style, That's how you beat Canelo.. but Lara gave the last half of the fight away from what I can remember!

 

That doesn't lose you rounds if you're landing cleaner/more overall. Canelo was chasing, lunging, missing and grazing with a scant few body shots.

How much you're throwing means literally nothing as far as scoring.

 

Ok stop.

 

Except all the rounds were the same? Lara running and throwing pot shot jabs but still clearly outboxing a befuddled and clumsy Alvarez.

 

That's like, your opinion, man.

 

Philosophically speaking, can you rob a man of something he gives away voluntarily?

It wouldn't be quite so frustrating to see if he wasn't only a round away from getting a draw and two away from winning.

 

Except there's footage?

 

Adhering to the strict scoring letter he did enough to win, whether or not anybody enjoyed watching it.

See also: the entire careers of Virgil Hill, Carlos Molina, Joe Calzaghe, etc.

 

I know it's not the way they teach it in boxing theory, but the analyst in me despises fighters who don't account for hometown bias in their gameplans. Ignoring a huge variable because they don't like that it exists is a form of delusion.

The smaller name guy/traveling fighter doesn't get the benefit of the doubt. They're way more likely to get screwed. That is a crappy thing, no doubt, but at this point it's common knowledge to the point of being a cliche. That guys still want to pretend they're fighting in a damn vacuum and don't adjust their gameplan is ridiculous in this day and age.

See: Lara-Canelo, Dirrell-Froch, Kovalev-Ward, etc.

Sucks that that's the lay of the land, but fighters MUST account for that unless they'd rather volunteer to be a victim of it.

 

No. But this is boxing, its unfortunate we have idiot judges in this sport..

My question to you and internationalbutts, are you guys going to recycle the same old threads over and over again every time Canelo makes you guys feel insecure?

 

I think the general consensus was that Canelo may have one 1 or 2 of those first 5 rounds. Khan was certainly outboxing him and out landing him, but in two of those rounds it seemed as though Canelo landed the more quality clean punches. I'd have to watch it back again, but it seemed to me like Khan was just edging those rounds by a punch of two here and there. Landing a bunch then getting out of Canelo's range.

 

Trout did nothing but pitty pat. Canelo easily won. Each Canelo punch was like 5 of Trout's.

 

Lara should have won 115-113, the judges score was 117-111 for Canelo. That's more than two points.

 

I don't have a problem with it for that reason. I'd have liked to see Lara penalized for stalling and avoiding contact, but then I have no problem with the Trinidad vs De La Hoya decision for the same reason. You ***** out and run, you deserve to lose.