B-Hop Vs Jean Pascal Spoilers.

[Kev]

I also had Hopkins winning every round after the 3rd. I also had Hopkins winning the 1st very clearly until he was dropped by the hit behind the head. If that hadn't occurred Hopkins would have won 10 out of 12 rounds. Overall B-Hop won 9 out of 12 clearly.

So no way was this fight close, only close because of the scoring system of boxing. When 1 guy gets outboxed for 9 out of 12 rounds, no way is that close. From punch output to punch landed to ring generalship and to sheer dominance and will, it was 1 sided in favor of Hopkins.

Totally agree that's the reason i had JMM winning vs Manny Pacquiao in there 1st fight. Because despite the bad start he still won 8 rounds clearly vs Manny Pacquiao, and i don't see how you cannot win a fight winning almost 3 quarters of the 12 rounds, and in B-Hop's case he actually did.

I agree with what you say, but judges arn't able to have an 'in hindsight' retrospective look back over the whole fight. They score each round idependently and total up the scores.
Maybe the scoring system isn't perfect but it's probably the best method we have. In theory knocking an opponent to the floor twice should count more than winning a round by points although again it's hard to score in practice, some knockouts are flash knockdowns, sometimes a fight can get battered without going down.

There are a lot of vagaries in boxing scoring, just like there are in any judging, or voting systems.

Hopefully they will order a rematch, and it will take place in America this time. Not sure pascal will want it much though. He looked a mentally beaten man by the end.

Massively impressive performance by Hopkins to come back the way he did.