James DeGale v Badou Jack - Sky Sports

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Just saw Floyd's post fight comments, what a massive wanker (yeah, I know, nothing new). He "promoted" a top fight then ruins it by crying about a robbery and bizarrely moaning about it being "bad for boxing."

If forced to pick a winner I'd go for Jack. His more consistent solidness throughout looked a little superior to DeGale's dazzling cameos. However, it was a good/fair draw and most importantly a good/quality punch-up.

Great beard shown by the ref.

I thought Floyd remained calm and spoke sense. It's true that Jack gets the wrong end of decisions and in this fight he messed up Degales face, outlanded him by 60 punches, landed the more telling shots and scored the classier KD. He won the fight and pretty handily too IMO. It is bad for boxing when a guy throws 10 punches with 9 of them landing on the arms, then gets hit back with 1 clean to the body and 1 clean to the head. Those kinds of exchanges were not difficult to judge. Degale was outlanded in most of the rounds and got his with the harder shots. It is pretty bad for boxing when a fighter clearly wins and struggles to ever get the decision. Also Degale should have been docked a point for constantly spitting out the mouth guard. That became very blatant.

If I had just "promoted" a cracking card I would have been bigging it up not tainting my product by doom and glooming about corruption and wrongdoing. The opinion expressed by the vast MAJORITY was a terrific, close fight. The correct opinion.

DeGale had two front teeth knocked out that's why the gum shield fell out a couple of times. Bit harsh (wrong) to say he was "constantly spitting it out," even the few times it came out he didn't stop fighting using it as an out.