Who did you score wolak/rodriguez for?

Rodriguez landed the cleaner more damaging shots, sure Wolak had a work rate but his shots did not do the damage compared to Delvins. I am not mad with a draw but if I have to pick a winner which I did it was rodriguez and that last round got him that IMO, but you could swing that round to Wolak as he pressured and threw most of the round but near the end Rodriguez landed some clean flush bombs to close out the fight, and thats what stole the fight on my card.
A draw is not a bad decison.. this fight was close.

 

I scored it a draw. Wolak was close. A warriors fight.

 

You're in fanboy terrirtory with this post.
And I don't think Delvin has any fanboys here anyway.

Rodriguez won this fight. He did a masterful job of handling Wolak's relentless pressure. He created space for himself. He didn't wilt. He took a few breaks and those are really the only moments or rounds you could give to Wolak.
No one is going to totally keep that guy off of him, but Rodriguez did as much as just about anyone could, especially for a smaller man that doesn't have one-punch KO power. He actually boxed and landed clean, hard punches. And for as much as Wolak supposedly landed, DR didn't look the worse for wear when it was all said and done.
Maybe this wasn't an absolute highway robbery, but it was a bad decision, and Delvin got yet another raw deal.

 

The trouble with scoring this fight is that Wolak was ineffective with his punches, and Rodriguez didn't get off enough in the early rounds.

When you're not throwing back, it doesn't matter if the other guy is just touching you whenever he gets close, doing nothing or landing a single 1-2 doesn't usually overcome the other guy pressuring you when you weren't throwing.

By the same token, when a guy is landing effectively in spurts and is doing damage or landing good combinations, you have to do more than just keep walking forward or shaking your head when he hits you. You need clean connects to swing the round back your way.

Ultimately, it all comes down to how you scored early rounds. If you gave Wolak the benefit of the doubt because Rodriguez wasn't doing enough, then Wolak has a chance of getting to a draw or a win on your card. If you weren't impressed because Wolak was throwing only a few punches that were actually meaningful, then the advantage swings to Rodriguez.

For the record, I had one round where I couldn't make up my mind on the scoring. Forget which one it was now, but I scored it a draw, maybe edging just a touch towards Wolak. If I have it as a draw, then my final score is 5-4-1 for Rodriguez. Scoring it for Wolak obviously makes it a draw, but I could definitely see scoring that round it for Rodriguez too.

So you have the chance of a final score going anywhere from 96-64 for Rodriguez, 96-95 Rodriguez, (which is pretty much how I feel) 95-95 or even 96-94. Which is the range where most of the scores are falling in the end.

 

Agreed as well. 98-92 is too wide given the closeness of the fight, but it's not inconceivable that a judge would award 2 of the other close rounds to Rodriguez.

 

Wolak's aggression was ineffective, most of his punches were slipped and Rodriguez landed the more powerful body shots and head shots.

Wolak is nothing more than a crude 1 deminsional pressure fighter.

 

Exactly which rounds was Rodriguez not throwing back. They showed compubox numbers (which I find suspicious sometimes) in about round five that showed Rodriguez was throwing 77 punches per round himself. Wolak was throwing more at 103, but 77 is a lot, way too many to say he wasn't throwing. And he was way more effective with is 77 than Wolak with his 103.

 

A couple of the early rounds. Even Rodriguez admitted he was slow to start. He won the second round going away, and edged the 3rd, but then Wolak started smothering him again. Like Wolak, he was having his shots smothered because they were usually in too close to be effective, he was getting bullied around the ring, and Wolak was doing the better work inside and occasionally Wolak would even land a half decent shot by coming in fast before Rodriguez could get off.

Now from round 6 on, Rodriguez did much, much better at creating space, angles, and getting his shots off, which is he pulled ahead on my card.

 

I disagree I think Wolaks aggression play a huge role like his other previous fights. Rodriguez at times wasnt able to do anything until Wolak slow down and thats when the good shots came in, which he should have done more often and taken more risk esp. if he was being successful. Wolak made Rodriduez fight his fight many times, so his aggression was effective in some ways. Rodriguez use every second of that stool as well and if this would have been 12 rounds and that insane swollen eye from Wolak didnt take place, this fight could have been even more great. Props to both guys.:good

 

Wrong DR never fought Wolak's fight, like I said, Wolak was too ineffective with his inside game and his big shot attempt were rolled and dodged and countered by DR.

Sorry but Wolak was pretty shitty last night, and DR as relatively unskilled as he is outboxed and outclassed him clearly and landed the cleaner more effective punches.

 

He's crude, but he was pressing the action and throwing more shots. There is such a thing as ring generalship in scoring fights, and workrate counts for something. I also believe that Wolak actually had a higher connect percentage too, contrary to what you say. I'd like to see the punchstats for this fight.

Don't get me wrong, I think it was a VERY close fight. What I am arguing with is this attitude that there was a clear winner. There was not.

 

Just found the punchstats. Wolak scored at a higher rate in all but Powerpunches!

http://www.***********.com/forums/view.php?pg=wolak-rodoriguez-compubox

 

Compubox counters.:-( I wish I had two of 'em.
One to **** on and one to cover it up with.

 

So Rodriguez with all his dimensions could not clearly beat a crude, one dimensional, one eyed, handicapped fighter? What does that say about Rodriguez?

I don´t mean to disrespect D-Rod, as he put up a very good, smart fight, but just want to point out the stupidity of your post.

 

You´re entitled to your position, but your opinion definitely belongs in the minority, both here and in the mainstream media.

Instead of screaming absurdities like bad decision or robbery, people ought to focus on the actual story that took place - a very good fight, which had both a great deal of skill, effort and heart from both fighters and a possible FOTY so far. A rematch would be great.

As for Delvin getting a raw deal - relax. His stock went up considerably after this fight. He defo gets another high profile fight soon.