Showtime Team: Time to hit the mute button.

[holmcall]

“Watching on TV all the ShowTime crew were giving every round but 1 to Fury until the 9th round knockdown and then only gave the 12th to Wilder. Thus according to them Fury won 9 rounds at 10-9 and Wilder won 3 rounds 10-8 X2 and a 10-9. However, I think Wilder could have been given several other rounds. The crew fell into “group think” and confirmation bias and didn’t realize some rounds could have reasonably gone either way. They probably dragged listeners with them. This is the problem with all boxing announcers in this day and age. They make observations and spend so much time agreeing with each other that they selectively “see” what they “say”.

Time to go "mute"

[Primo Carnera]

How many rounds do you think Wilder won?
Yeah , maybe they could’ve given some rounds to Wilder, but are we looking at ways to give Wilder rounds?
I have to admit , before watching the fight , I thought there’s no way that it could be so definitively Fury’s , so I looked to give Wilder the 1st. Then after that , I just thought “Fuck it, he has to actually win these rounds !”
All a Boxer has to do is win the round. He does that in most of the rounds, he wins. Even if the other won rounds more convincingly.
Even Being generous to Wilder , I could give him the 2 10/8 rounds and tops 2 more rounds, maybe even sharing them.

[TitoFan]

Agree 100%. In fact, Paulie was getting me a bit sick with his assertions that Fury was constantly connecting with the jab in the first few rounds. I agree that Fury dominated the last half of the fight save for those two rounds in which he was dropped..... but I saw a lot of missed jabs by Fury in the first half. I'm gonna rewatch the fight in mute first chance I get, and I'll reach my own conclusions. I have no problems with Fury having won the fight.... but listening to these clowns sure throws a huge bias factor in there.

[holmcall]

I'm ok with the 113-113 car (UK Judge I believe). I can get to 113.I am fine with the draw but Fury's performance was fantastic all things considered. How he got up s mindboggling.

[walrus]

Did farhoud score or is he HBO I forget, his scores are usually reliable I find

[Spicoli]

Think Farhood had it 115-112 Fury, not totally certain though. Usually in rounds that can go either way I go for the busier fighter who is controlling the real estate, doing as he pleases when he pleases so to speak. At the very best I can see Wilder maybe winning 4 rounds.

[powerpuncher]

I agree to an extent. I feel like they were being a bit too harsh on Wilder but let’s be honest, Wilder was getting very frustrated and losing most of the round. I gave Wilder the first two rounds then only gave him the knockdown rounds after that. There may have been another round in there that could have gone to Wilder.