Your scoring for Holyfied vs Lewis 2

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  1. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    Just curious as to what people think of that fight and how close you thought it was.
     
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  2. Mendoza

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    Lewis 7-5 or 8-4.
     
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  3. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    6 a piece. A draw.

    Holyfied should of got the decision because he was eager to make a fight out of it, Lewis wasn't.
     
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  4. lufcrazy

    lufcrazy requiescat in pace Full Member

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    Lewis clear win imo.
     
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  5. fists of fury

    fists of fury Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I think I had it about 2 maybe 3 rounds to Lewis. Close(ish) fight but Lewis did enough, although he didn't fight impressively.
     
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  6. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Lewis was in better form the second time around, and I had him winning more comfortably. I think it was 8/4.
     
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  7. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Lennox Lewis UD12 Evander Holyfield

    In many ways the judging in this fight was as strange as it was for New York, I disagreed with judges on rounds 1,3,4 and 5, pretty cleanly on a lot of these occasions, I thought Lederman's card was best, although I also disagreed with him on 1. I guess if it mattered I should look at that round again, fortunately I gave it to Evander and so don't have to bother.

    LEWIS: 2,4,5,8,9,10,11
    HOLYFIELD: 1,3,6,7,12

    7-5 LEWIS

    Lewis just bossed the second half of the fight for me. I had it even after 8, which no HBO observers seemed to agree with, but Lewis swept 8,9,10 and 11 to make sure on my card. It's an interesting fight in one regard, and that's that Lewis wins rounds early by being bigger and longer, but the rounds that win him the unified title are bought by fighting. It's the punches he lands inside, or coming inside, mainly uppercuts that do the damage. All the bull**** about Holyfield taking away Lewis's jab is just that, because the jab was a factor, but nothing like the one it was in the first fight. This was indeed partially down to Holyfield's jab and body-work, but credit too to Lewis for meshing plan A and plan B to make a servicable plan C.

    Would love to have seen Holyfield tackle this Lewis in his prime. Perversely, I pick Lewis by knockout but I think Holyfield might have made it a really really exciting fight.
     
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  8. Berlenbach

    Berlenbach Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I had it 7-5 for Lewis. I remember them trading rounds early on but Lewis virtually swept the second half of the fight.
     
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  9. ForemanJab

    ForemanJab Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Lewis won clearly. Holyfield did give a good account of himself but was inferior to Lewis is every aspect of boxing.
     
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  10. klompton2

    klompton2 Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    I had Holyfield up by a couple of rounds. Everyone gave Lewis a gift because of the first fight (which wasnt that convincing IMO) but this one was more clear for Holy than #1 was for Lewis.
     
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  11. Vanboxingfan

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    8-4 or 7-5 for Lewis. Many Holyfield supports and/or Lewis detractors point to this fight when comments on Lewis' and Holyfield's careers and who would win in their primes.

    But to me, it seems that had the first fight been scored properly it would have been 9-3 for Lewis and this fight was at worst 7-5 for Lewis. So that's about a 16-8 score for the full 24 rounds, which to me is nor particularly close.
     
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  12. Vanboxingfan

    Vanboxingfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I wouldn't go that far, he dominated more in the first fight than he did in the rematch.
     
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  13. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Not, "I'm in disagreement with the majority here" not "i maybe need to give this one another look because most people have it to Lewis", not "a close fight that could go either way" not "i don't understand why my card is so different to everyone else's" but rather, everyone else is biased. That's an incredible statement.

    Is that really what you mean to say, or have I misunderstood?
     
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  14. Unforgiven

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    I thought they both fought better in this fight than the first one. They fought more urgently.

    I've scored it a couple of times, 6-6, and 7-5 for Lewis. I don't think 7-5 for Holyfield would have been a robbery either - with several of the rounds being razor close - but of course that would have caused a sh1tstorm after the controversy of the first fight !
     
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  15. fists of fury

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    Yep. Holyfield would have had to win that rematch BIG to get the decision. In fairness, had the judges done their job in the first fight, there would have been no reason for a rematch.
     
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