Zhang vs Hrgovic outcome ...fair?

It was close. I had it 114-113 Zhang but it could have gone the other way. It was definitely not a robbery. From memory the knockdown was dubious too.

 

Again.
You score boxing round by round. New round = new story.
In 9 of 12 rounds Hrgovic land more shots than Zhang. He was more active too because throw 300 punches more.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Faorp9SWYAAGq56?format=jpg&name=large

Knockdown for Zhang was not propper too. It was illegal punch on back of the head with forearm.

Hrgovic was better. That was hard fight for him but he was better.

Reason why ppl think it was robbery?
1. People dont like Hrgovic very much
2. Commentary was just horrible (english). All for Zhang. Even punch replay
3. Zhang got more clear moments in fight when Filip was wobbled (that's stay in memory better than 10 shots from other site)
4. People expect Zhang should be easy fight for someone like Filip (again this happend in Joyce fight)

 

The night of, I scored the fight 115-112 for Zhang, but in retrospect that was too wide. Upon rewatching the fight I scored it 114-113 for Zhang, giving him rounds 1, 3-6 and 9. First time I also gave him 11, but a second viewing made me change my mind. He did hurt Hrgovic badly about half through round 11 but the amount of work Hrgovic did in the rest of the round was enough to cancel that out.

That said, while I'm still disappointed with the decision, it was a perfectly fair one. Zhang completely gave away 2 and 10-12, Hrgovic did enough to clearly win 7 and 8 in my eyes so all he needed for a win was one of the rounds that could've gone either way. I think 4 and 5 were the ones I could've seen swinging his way.

So, disappointed Zhang lost for sure, but it wasn't by any means a robbery. It was one of those fights that was so close either man winning was perfectly reasonable.

 

Its one of those fights tgats close snd could go either way. I thiught Zhang won that fight.

 

Big bang Zhang!

 

I had a draw. A rematch would be good.

 

I thought Zhang was a clear winner

 

This was a legit KD. He got clipped behind the ear and zhang's gloves bounced behind his head. You can clearly see hrgovic's head bounce sideways before Zhang's gloves go behind his head. This is an impact

 

Me too, and it really wasn't a hard fight to score.

My opinion is the same then as it is now:

 

They gave it a UD to Hrgovic with two judges giving him 8 rounds... So, whilst I respect that you went back and changed your mind on how wide you scored it for Zhang. Those score cards were corrupt as ****

 

Great, great thread because I don't think we have ever discussed this before.

 

I thought Hyrgovic edged this fight, I think people have a problem with this result because the perception before was that Hyrgovic would win and they gave Zhang the edge in some rounds wanting the likeable underdog to pull off the shock win.

It certainly was no robbery, just a very close fight.

 

Hrgovic knelt down, after he got up, his legs started to give out and he was unstable on them, the reason for that was that it surprised Hrgovic and maybe even scared him a little...