Boxing

[Zapater]

The promoter is embarrassed by it. It's more about sick and tired of this bull****. I don't have any feelings about Taylor. I didn't like his homophobia but that's pretty minor in the grand scheme of things. I don't know much about Catterall. So no personal preference or skin in the game.

Results like this kill and propel careers. No one would even know Tim Bradley's name if he. Didn't get the gift against Pacquiao. Likewise Marquez best Manny at least 3 times. Even though it (presumably) has nothing to do with Taylor, I'd love to see him sparked in his next bout for good measure.

Nah, Josh's majestic, controlled aggression is what won him the fight.

Catterall went into his shell after early success and was unduly negative which cost him the fight

I would phrase it as that he chose to fight in his opponents backyard and lost it there.

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As if to cheer Jaco up Hagler v Hearns is now on Sky Sports

[Doc_Piptorious]

As if to cheer Jaco up Hagler v Hearns is now on Sky Sports

I have The Lost Boys on now, ya bum.



And I don't need cheering up as I really rate Taylor and think of him as being in the top three with regards to the the PPV ratings. Just happen to think he clearly lost tonight.

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Two of those judges were on VAR at Goodison today.

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Howard Foster just scored the third round of Hagler / Hearns to Tommy Hearns

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Worth a watch.
David Price on Paddy Pimblett's show

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[Rafa Justice]

Social media last night was awash with big names in boxing and sport in general calling that outcome a disgrace. Couldn't find a single person who thought it was the right decision.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Social media last night was awash with big names in boxing and sport in general calling that outcome a disgrace. Couldn't find a single person who thought it was the right decision.

Oh there is at least one

Three if you include Taylor's Mam and Nan who I think were judges last night.

[Shaggy]

Was out last night and watched it back this morning. Just totally disgusted. Boxing is corrupt as ****. Makes me want to stop watching. A total disgrace.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Was starting to doubt my own ability to roughly score a fight after the weekend but then saw the stats.


Had to look back at the thread to see how I scored the fight and saw I scored it 117 -108

Now look at the punches landed per round bit. Punches landed, where they land, the effect they have (be it in pushing back, stunning, allowing space for another punch, causing a knock down, causing a wobble etc etc) is part of what I try to look for when watching I fight.

The punches landed for each round has Catterall landing more punches for 11 out of 12 rounds

So using that it gives a score of 119 - 109

But both had a point docked so that makes it 118- 108

And there was a knockdown round so that makes it 118 -107 so not far from what I thought I was scoring round by round in the thread.

Now that is a very very simplistic way to look at it and it does not take into account if a particular judge rewards aggression or rewards defensive work or if a judge simply does not like spoiling or if a judge is influenced by cheers from the crowd (not to mention if a judge is influenced by a brown envelope full of notes), but generally if a fight goes the distance and one fight had landed more than 50% more punches than the other over the course orf a fight and generally lands the most punches in almost every round, then that fighter normally will score the better of the two.

Still cannot figure out how any of the judges scored the fight and would love to be able to see the round by round scoring for each judge just to try and see which rounds they gave to Taylor and not to Catterall.

[spud_gun]

117 - 108 is a mental score card and so, so wide of the mark. You'd be up in front of the BUI had you scored the fight that way on the night.

To calm some of the hysteria from Sat night look at the judges scoring. The scoring was exceptionally close. The judge that scored the fight for Catterall gave it to him by one round.

Out of interest do you score fights round by round as you're watching them or do you take direction from Sky's Adam Smith on how to score them?

[Doc_Piptorious]

117 - 108 is a mental score card and so, so wide of the mark. You'd be up in front of the BUI had you scored the fight that way on the night.

To calm some of the hysteria from Sat night look at the judges scoring. The scoring was exceptionally close. The judge that scored the fight for Catterall gave it to him by one round.

Out of interest do you score fights round by round as you're watching them or do you take direction from Sky's Adam Smith on how to score them?

Yeah of course it was. That is why the scoring is under an official investigation now


As for Adam Smith, well there is a thing called a volume control you know. Works a treat for getting rid of the braindead **** before, during and after fights on Sky.

Works for the footy too when idiots scummers like Carragher and Neville are on, so a double bonus.

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Yeah of course it was. That is why the scoring is under an official investigation now


As for Adam Smith, well there is a thing called a volume control you know. Works a treat for getting rid of the braindead **** before, during and after fights on Sky.

Works for the footy too when idiots scummers like Carragher and Neville are on, so a double bonus.

Just listened to Robert Smith of the BBOC on Bunces Boxing Podcast and he said that it was an exceptionally close fight. The card being queried is that of Ian John Lewis. Surprise Surprise?

That score card seems to be an outlier and the board will invite Ian to discuss it and his thoughts on the fight

The other two cards were accepted for what they were. Close cards in a very close fight.

That's the extent of the investigation.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Just listened to Robert Smith of the BBOC on Bunces Boxing Podcast and he said that it was an exceptionally close fight. The card being queried is that of Ian John Lewis. Surprise Surprise?

That score card seems to be an outlier and the board will invite Ian to discuss it and his thoughts on the fight

The other two cards were accepted for what they were. Close cards in a very close fight.

That's the extent of the investigation.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Taylor offers Catterall a rematch but not for the belts and only at a higher weight.

Have no idea how Taylor will do a weight up, but he did looked drained going into the fight against Catterall so he would not have that issue with less weight to lose.


Then over with the clowns heavyweights


Fury claiming he will retire after the Whyte fight and that he has nothing more to do to prove he is one of the greatest boxers ever. Not greatest heavyweights but greatest boxers at any weight. Poor deluded ****er did not even prove to be the greatest of the current crop of **** heavyweights let alone being one the greatest boxers at any weight.

Still I suppose he did beat the hapless Wilder a couple times along with his one win of note against Wlad.

Then again Fury is like Connor McGregor and just talks utter **** only to then say the opposite the next day.