Okay, let's get real: Spinks was robbed!

Agree whole heartedly with Bama. I had it 9-3 Spinks. Spinks didn't run at all. He circled, jabbed, set the pace, controlled the ring all night...

Taylor stood there looking at him for 2:30 of almost every round. As to Compubox, if Taylor outlanded Spinks on power shots in round 5, I'll eat my CPU. Total BS.

If this had been a fighter with better good will built up, there would outrage in the air. Spinks beat Taylor.

To show how sick I am, I rewatched the fight just to make sure I didn't miss somewthing. I watched this twice...the horror.

 

Geebus man. Twice? That's like asking to get raked across the balls twice by an inexperienced virgin.

 

...with braces...you left out with braces.

Had to though before I wrote this week to be sure I wasn't giving him too much props.

 

landed punches? :dunno:


He stayed out of Jermaine's range and jumped in and landed 1 or 2 shots a round. The whole second half of the fight he was deplorable.

Jermaine sucked but Spinks was even worse. Jermaine couldn't handle Spinks speed but Spinks didn't do any better against Jermain's size and strength advantage.

It's becoming like every fight that goes to a decision is deemed a robbery nowadays. Mayweather won clearly 2 weeks ago and Taylor won pretty clearly last weekend.

I don't even like Jermaine, I was rooting like crazy against him in the Hopkins fight but it seems like people are scoring fights against him just so they can say he hasn't actually beaten any quality opponents.

I can already see the ridiculous claims that he's actually 0-4 against Hopkins, Wright and Spinks.

 

Given that compubox is a stat sample at best, the landed shots were virtually equal. Spinks threw 2-300 more shots and landed equal. Who made the fight?

 

I agree, Compubox is crap including the number of punches that Spinks threw. Shooting out a jab that you miss by 3 feet shouldn't exactly count for a punch or given any credit.

Spinks was beating Jermaine to the punch early in the fight but as the fight wore on he wasn't landing shit.

As to your question................neither fighter made the fight. They both stunk.

 

dsimon writes:

Bottom line. Bottom line.

Spinks was delusional enough to give away the last round and this was all the judges needed to figure out who the more uppidity scrub was::

 

:bears: :bears:

 

I would give DLH the win against Mayweather before I give Spinks the win over Taylor.

Spinks did FUCK ALL the entire fight.

 

Why would it be a ridiculous claim? I scored all four against him - not because I have a vendetta against him, just because I thought he lost all four.

That said, I don't consider this one a great robbery. I had Spinks winning, but really haven't vehemently argued any scorecard, since so little action was offered in any round. But this was certainly the worst performance of Jermain's prime.

 

I have him 1 and 1 vs. Hopkins and I'm a huge Bernard fan. I thought he beat Spinks fairly easily even though he sucked in the fight and the Winky fight was a legitimate draw IMO. Once again I was rooting for Winky but he just gave it away at the end, similar to the Vargas fight.

All the fights were close and while Jermain is a frustrating fighter to watch I think it's a bit disingenuous to claim 4 losses for him in each of those fights. That's just my opinion anyway.

There is something about Jermain that makes other fighters stink to. Probably his tentativeness mixed with a wildness when he does decide to unload. Makes other fighters as nervous as him.

I hope he gets taken out his next fight...............but I think that's easier said then done.

 

I don't say that he's 0-4 in suggesting that he sucks, though. Sometimes the scorecards just turn out the way they do. It's what happens when you score fights round by round, rather than as a whole.

Of the four, I never really argued agains the outcome of Hopkins II, and this fight. The Wright fight, IMO, is actually the clearest loss - the more I rewatch it, the more I realize how badly Wink was screwed. And that's even if you go along with the suggestion that he gave away the 12th (which he didn't, he just didn't attempt to shoeshine as much as Jermain).

 

Jermain is Paulie Ayala reincarnated.

I didn't score the fight. Frankly, I stopped paying attention after four or five rounds. the "onliest" times I looked up was to hear Manny yelling at Jermain.