Mares-Agbeko, What I Saw

[captainanddew]

good post
I saw Mares winning the fight , even if he had a 2 point deduction , and the second knockdown being called a low blow.

Mares was the better fighter simply, altought the referee was unfair to Agbeko, Mares still presented more skill and talent

See this is what makes this referee's performance so unfortunate because you can't say how this fight turns out if he takes points. Mares was given a pass to attack the body without discretion when he wasn't penalized for the numerous low blows. Who knows how this fight changes on that alone. Also another thing that no one has mentioned is the effect it had to have on Agbeko MENTALLY! He showed true heart but fighting two people had to weight on him so to say that Mares was simply the better fighter is not a fair assessment........oh yeah, not to mention the physical impact the low blows had on Agbeko

this is why the fight will be controversial no matter what. I still think Mares is the better fighter based on the fight. He was better simply. ( low blows werent as bad as they seemed- they deserved penelty- but werent very painfull as we saw Agbeko react. He wasnt in pain. ) Mares woudlve won without these fouls- my point

how do we know if Agbeko was in pain? I am not a huge Tarver fan but he is a long-time fighter and he said sitting ringside that when you get hit low that often it will have an effect on you. Despite that Agbeko arguably was winning most of the rounds over the 2nd half of the fight.

And it is easy to attack the body when not only are the body shots legal, but the borderline low shots are legal, and the clearly low shots are fine according to the ref.