Where Would You Like To See GGG v Canelo?

Yes, it would be a pro-GGG or neutral crowd in London I think. Golovkin is quite well-liked here, generally gets good press in the newspapers while I never see much about Canelo.

 

Why drain it?

 

I think UK would be good, Texas is not a fair place to fight, you have a crooked boxing commission, judges and referee. Lawrence Cole is the worst ref in boxing............

 

That's kind of odd since he has beaten at least 3 boxers from the United Kingdom.

 

Indeed he has. But SkySports dominate the UK boxing scene and Golovkin-Brook was huge here. Canelo-Khan was not hosted in the UK by comparison, Canelo has never fought in the UK.

US/Mexico fights are 3-5am in the UK, only the hardcore's are watching, and they obviously already know about Canelo.

 

My living room.

 

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Ross and Moretti had identical scorecards besides the 1st and the 8th round. (Ross gave the 1st and 8th rounds to Canelo, Moretti gave the 1st and the 8th rounds to Floyd)

Both Ross and Moretti agreed that Canelo won rounds 3, 9, 11 and 12.

The other judge, Craig Metcalfe, who had Floyd winning 9 rounds to 3, agreed with Ross and Moretti about Canelo winning round 12, but had Canelo winning round 2 and round 10, which both were rounds that Ross and Moretti gave to Floyd. So the judge that scored it widest to Floyd scored as many rounds on his own to Canelo as CJ Ross did.

But more importantly, and the thing to keep in mind, is that CJ Ross's card and Moretti's card were much more similar to each other than Metcalfe's card was to Moretti's card. Ross and Moretti had 10 rounds scored identically, while Metcalfe and Moretti only had 7 rounds scored identically.

So I don’t know how you can say Ross was the blind one when her scorecard was so similar to Moretti’s card, while the guy who scored it 9 rounds to 3 for Floyd had a completely different card to the other two judges in comparison.

 

Yeah GGG is loved over here. Always thought you were from NZ kiwiman

 

Moved from NZ to the UK 8 months ago

 

How you finding it? Most people i know here would love to go the other way, and any that have love it

 

All very interesting but in the end one judge gave it to Floyd by four rounds and another by six. These are not inconsiderable margins. Moretti and Metcalfe were within a one-round swing of each others score, whereas with Ross it's a two-round swing to the judge closest to her interpretation. That empirically places her score more out of kilter with her colleagues' assessments than both of the other two with one anothers. And they both saw a Floyd win, whereas she witnessed a draw which is another aspect in which she was out of kilter. So, in two key areas she stands alone from her colleagues.

So here's a simple question: in terms of a fight result which is more important, a tally of rounds scored the same by various judges or the final score they all gave the fight in its entirety? Which is key?