Huck vs Povetkin scoring question

[captainanddew]

You lot are giving Huck an awful lot of credit for sloppy sporadic roughhousing tactics. Povetkin deserved to nick it imo. Shit load of close rounds though, literally half the fight was pick em rounds. And as such you always get controversy with scores in fights like these cos you can actually have it 8-4 either way if you like the work of one over the other in the close rounds.

Did I just read Mars_ax give the fight to Povetkin 115-113 and in the same breath saying the 116-112 score was ridiculous? Thats 1 round scored different dude.

Anyone saying this is a robbery is talking out of their arse and thats a fact.

did anyone call it a robbery? I was going after the bullshit cards giving Povetkin 8 rounds.

116-112 is ridiculous. There was at least 5 rounds that Huck won. Mar's scorecard illustrated my point, there wasn't 8 rounds Povetkin won. That is why 116-112 is bullshit. 116-112 isn't giving Povetkin close rounds, it is taking away rounds Huck won.

[J_C]

I had it 7-4-1 for 116-113 Povetkin. I dont even like Povetkin, I prefer Huck to him. The commentator on boxnation also had it the same score as me. 116-112 is very achievable. I only counted 2 rounds that I thought Huck definitively won. 4 for Povetkin. Then 6 close ones.

I think you just must be a fan of Hucks style Captain and theres nothing wrong with that.

[captainanddew]

I had it 7-4-1 for 116-113 Povetkin. I dont even like Povetkin, I prefer Huck to him. The commentator on boxnation also had it the same score as me. 116-112 is very achievable. I only counted 2 rounds that I thought Huck definitively won. 4 for Povetkin. Then 6 close ones.

I think you just must be a fan of Hucks style Captain and theres nothing wrong with that.

I am not a Huck fan or his style.

You are the first person I can find on twitter, and 3 boxing boards who thought that there was 6 close rounds and that Huck didn't win 5 rounds at the least.

[J_C]

The commentator dude and 2 of the 3 judges side with me though, so I think I have some kind of argument.

The crowd cheered an awful lot whenever Huck did anything, that often comes into play in peoples scoring. Bottom line, theres no way Huck gets a raw deal in Germany on the cards.

[ruthless rocco]

punches to the back of the head aren't scoring punches... so there were alot of rounds where many of huck's punches landed but didn't contribute to his score. mix in the fact that povetkin's punches were often clean crisp and in combos of 3, 4 and 5... it makes it a closer fight for povetkin.

i think people have got a little over excited cause huck did better than people expected.

keep in mind regardless of whether he was bending down or huck was holding his head down those rabbit punches are illegal and don't score. but they do take alot out of you over the course of a fight. which helps to explain why povetkin was looking so challenged. had the illegal punches and head holding been stopped early in the fight or if huck had been penalized, then we'd have seen a different fight.

[Spicoli]

EPIX is replaying this right now. Suprised how solid Huck looks for only 209 lbs.

[erics44]

i enjoyed the fight and thought huck deserved it

one thing that i thought should have happened is the ref warning provetkin a lot more for dipping his head below the waist

he should have been told to keep his head up and if he persisted like he did, lose a point