Benn vs Eubank II Lots of people thought Benn won- but they wanted him to win more than they thought he did. He also had a point deducted. Draw was a good result. Best thing about that fight ending in a draw as that Don King got promotional rights over the winner. There was none. :laugh11:
I disagree. Pacquiao was a clear winner on my card. Marquez did enough (remarkably, & to his enormous credit) to make it fairly close, but I cannot escape scoring the outcome in Pacquiao's favour. Marquez was pretty lucky to get the draw, I felt. A little unlucky, mind, to miss out on the nod in their rematch, but that's another story.
I agree that Pac won that first fight....and by 2 points on my scorecard, meaning that the 2KDs were the difference from it actually being the draw. I scored the rematch a draw though.
I had Marquez up by a point as I recall. Overall given the split in opinion I think the draw was fair.
The fact that even you have Pacman winning says it all, being a big Marquez fan. Scoring the first fight a draw is insane. Pacquiao won that by a few points, especially if you score the first round 10-6. The rematch is very different. Although not a robbery, I can well see that being scored for Marquez. People must have been givnig Marquez sympathy rounds in the first fight, because he didn't come close to winning that fight.
I thought the first Hopkins-Mercado fight was accurately scored. Even if you thought Hopkins deserved a close nod, I like the fact that it turned out the way it did. Hopkins beat the fuck out of him in the rematch for a much more fitting start to his title reign than had he won a narrow decision after getting dropped twice.
I scored that fight exactly as Czyz did. I think that was a 1 pt win for Benn. Didn't know about the King thing. Pretty funny.
Yep. King never factored for the draw. Never fight in England....:nono: :: The 2nd Benn-Eubank fight was a close close fight.
I have to admit, that was always where I was at with the fight. Benn is one of my all-time favorites, while I never liked Eubank. Didn't know that about King, although he was intimately involved in Benn's career from that point onward to where it hardly mattered whether or not King had options.
I'm in the minority but I didn't see a problem with Mosley-Mora being called a draw. I guess because I watched it after the fact, had already read about it, and very little of the actual fight itself held my interest for even a few minutes. Still, type of fight that neither guy deserved to win, which is precisely what happened.
Holyfield Lewis 1 Although I scored it for Lewis, I'm glad it was a draw as neither man deserved to be undisputed champion after such a snoozefest.
The great majority of fans will agree with this. Everyone thought it was a draw. I'm glad you didn't mention a fight just to get everyone flamed and off topic.
It seemed a lot of people at the time were in agreement the Botha-Briggs decision...including Briggs himself.
Another one of those fights which, a la Bowe-Golota, looked like shit on paper but had completely outgrown it's billing by the time the final bell sounded. Briggs ear was hanging off by the end and Botha looked like somebody had attacked his forehead with a lipstick.
I don't know that it 'looked like shit' on paper, both managed to raise their stock in losses to Lewis and Tyson, and someone must've thought enough of it, and that enough other people thought enough of it, to put it on pay per view. Congratulations on getting Golota another mention, though....you're subtlety never ceases to impress.
:scratcher: I'm not the Golota peddler. That is somebody else. They put shit on PPV all the time, by the way. Another fact I waded into there recently.
I missed the Mosley vs Mora bout. Did it really was a draw or the judges just saved one of them of another defeat in his record?
Opinions actually vary pretty widely, I've seen. Speaking for myself, I think they rescued Mosley's record from what should've been a defeat.
