Yeah, and there are still delusional people that thought Hatton was winning against Mayweather right up to the point where he got KTFO but the vast majority know better.
Based on ESB polling- Kotelnik should demand a rematch but this time on neutral soil. Those judges should be embarrassed. What a mockery.
Work rate should have no influence on scoring at all. It's about clean punching and effective aggression - if you "work hard" but land less clean effective punches than a more economical opponent, then you are outscored on those categories.
Devon was heavily hyped by HBO as the next coming and had Don King as his promoter. Add 3 American judges plus the home soil and hometown advantage and it's a recipe for a robbery.
Easily Kotelnik, but off course there was no chance for Kotelnik getting the decision. BTW Lederman was ridiculous.
I remember watching the fight thinking ok this time when they put lederman on he will say alexander is falling behind, but no everytime they spoke to him he just stood by his delusion. You could just tell the two commentators just wanted to say, what the **** are you watching harold. I also think the commentators in the fight had a duty to accurately comment on the fight which they tried doing but held back. You just know if that was lampley and merchant on their they would be taking a piece of harold's ass. Even better, steward would straight up speak over harold and tell him what clean effective punching is all about.
I just saw it for the first time and thought Kotelnik won comfortably, i scored it 116-112 and i actually felt i was generous to Alexander on a couple of those rounds. It's weird how differently people can see a fight.