Much of Oscar's flurries and in general much of what he did against Quartey hit gloves, while Quartey's jab and hook would snap Oscar's head back. People who score these close fights to Oscar don't seem to be concerned with the quality of work, ie clean punching. Not sure how you think Quartey's jab was taken away either. A great comeback in the 12th for Oscar but 1 fight doesn't win a fight if it isn't a ko. The same judge who scored this fight to Oscar also scored the Trinidad fight against him. And why not, if you score Oscar punching gloves why not score Trinidad's wild misses? Oscar Whitaker is much closer and I've had it both ways in the past, Oscar was the more aggressive but was outlanded. Quartey was the best WW of the era, he would have outboxed Trinidad and Mosley reasonably comfortably and edged out Whitaker.
I had it 10-2 or 9-3 or so for DLH but that doesn't tell the whole story. Oscar landed more in nearly every round, however for about 2:30 seconds of every round he ran and didn't punch while Trinidad stalked him. That's a basic ****ysis, it got worse in the championship rounds but before that he was very negative. And not in the way Mayweather will slip and counter, Oscar would slip and circle without throwing. If a judge scores his rounds in 1 minute segments and picks a winner on the basis of who won the most segments then Trinidad had a case as he does if you consider his aggression was effective enough to make Oscar do nothing.