After Watching The Replay, Floyd Still Won "However..."

How did all three judges score the 6th for him? I thought Oscar won that round. Oscar blocked most of Floyd's punches.

Also, the 10th round wasn't a big Mayweather round as some have stated. Floyd won it, but it wasn't a dominating round by any means.

 

"Like I Said Before"...

Floyd CLEARLY Won the Fight....

UNimpressively...


REED

 

Floyd won the 10th big! What's da matter witcha!?!

 

agREED.

The replay solidified what I'd thought...Floyd won, but Oscar blocked a TON of his shots. There's no way the punchstat numbers are accurate. There's no way in hell Floyd landed 40% of his punches.

 

The most I could "give" Oscar in that fight is 5 rounds though. I thought Floyd won the last 4 rounds. At best, Oscar was 5-3 up after 8. At best!

 

btw Muzse,

Whatever happened to your favourite Floyd Mayweather Snr quote about how..."a good big man always beats a good little man, unless the disparity in skill is huge...which isn't the case here."?

:tease:

 

I know you wrote that after the fight, as did I, but it's amazing how little credit DLH got from most observors for blocking punches in this fight.

I had it 7-5 for Mayweather.

 

This is true, even alot of the punches that looked like and even sounded like they landed clean were in fact blocked.

 

yes..

 

You're confusing "dominating" with "exciting".

It was arguably the most boring round of the fight..and that's why it's difficult to say anyone dominated it...because a dominating round usually has lots of one-way drama (Mayweather-Gatti round 5 for example).

No, this particular round just had a lot of posing and one punch at a time.


"However" (Copywright, Father of Muzse 2007)

FLOYD WAS THE ONE DOING ALL OF THE PUNCHING!!!!

Oscar did absoutely nothing the entire round. It was by far the most one-sided round of the fight...and the most dominated Oscar has been in any round in his entire career (with the exception of the round he was KOed by Hopkins).

 

Blocking punches is called DEFENSE.

One of the scoring criteria is defense, therefore, Floyd throwing punches doesn't win him the round.

My point is (and was after the fight) is, Floyd's slipping under punches is more obvious than Oscar's catching shots on his gloves. That's why Oscar didn't get the credit he deserved.

Manny Steward said that Floyd was having trouble catching Oscar clean and stated a few times that Oscar was blocking most of Floyd's shots...which was true.

 

absolutely. and it was boxing's night to shine:nono:

 

agREED.

I thought this was one of Oscar's better defensive fights. His parrying and blocking skills were on point.

You would have expected Floyd to pick off shots but instead it was Oscar who had the upperhand.

 

Yep, he blocked a hell of a lot until the last third, after which began to fray at the edges and his defence was more leaky...it wasn't so much a case mayweather turning up the volume, he just began to land more...

 

:clap:

 

You've got to be kidding me. Mosley beat Oscar up way worse and I can think of plenty of rounds throughout his career where he took a bigger beating - even in fights he won. Like round 9 against Ike, where he took a shellacking. Or even round 7 of that bout. And Mosley beat him up pretty good in the second half of the first fight as well.

Mayweather won 8-4 or 7-5 but it wasn't anywhere near the biggest beating Oscar's taken.

 

I know...makes me wonder if Sly actually saw the fight.

 

Some of the rounds against Sturm and Mosley were worse. Maybe against Gonzalez too when he ran in a couple of late rounds or against Quartey when he stared at him and did nothing.

Round 11 was a more "dominating" round for Mayweather than 10.

 

yup...that last slystaffism certainly ranks highly among his all-time dumbest quotes. top 10 material, no question...

 

Hey, my favourite mulatto sparring partner has returned! What's up bra?

 

Exactly. And at the end of 11, Oscar lands the best punch of the fight.

He caught Floyd with a perfect right hand as Floyd tried to bounce off the ropes. I thought Floyd was stung, but the bell rang.

 

on a brief side note, watching that fight made phonetap realize that floyd would have had little chance at beating winky wright @ 154. fighting hopkins at 170 is a ridiculous move...

btw: floyd was stung with that right hand, not hurt (as in trouble) but stung.

 

Do you remember the end of the 4th round? Oscar hit Floyd with a left hook..FLUSH after the bell (Floyd forgot to protect himself at all times).

Floyd didn't like it and proceeded to attack Oscar in the very next round. What it showed The Sly One...is that Floyd has a MUCH better chin than given credit for.

 

Sly, did you like PBF's left upper-cut/right-hand combination? The one he managed to land 0 times, but kept throwing through-out the fight?

 

those were half-hearted attempts...floyd didn't commit to throwing combinations because he was afraid to get countered with a left hook....that was painfully obvious.

 

You thought Floyd won the last 4 rounds but , I posted the clip of round 9 and it was clear that round could have gone either way ..

 

After rewatching the fight four times I still had DLH winning 7-5.

 

Same here though I only watched it 3 times ....

 

DLH was robbed either way you look at it at best the fight was a draw.

 

Which 7 rounds did you give to Oscar? (same question applies to CYC)