Quote Originally Posted by shza View Post
Bute UD unless Froch gets a hometown decision like he did against Dirrell. Bute will be more offensive than Dirrell was though, so it will be harder to justify a BS points decision for Froch.

Zero chance of Froch KO'ing Bute. As someone above pointed out, Froch does not have KO power against top-level guys. It remains to be seen whether Bute does -- but even if he does, Froch has about as good a chin as anyone.
would Froch have won the Dirrell fight if it was located elsewhere? I find it not to be a particularly eggregious decision considering Dirrell often toes the line between boxing and plain running (and did so in that fight).

It isn't as if Froch hasn't been on the other end of a similar decision. Froch vs Kessler was a fight where Kessler is going to get the close rounds at home and if it was in the UK, Froch would have gotten them.

Sadly that is how boxing is judged now. It used to be you could count on a judge to reward aggression in the close rounds. Not that I like aggression that much but it is better than the current rules.

Now, you can just use the following rules:

1-hometown fighter-give him the close rounds
2-if fight is not in anyone's hometown-give the "bigger name fighter" the close rounds.

Devon Alexander getting questionable decisions in St. Louis. Cloud getting decision over Campillo. PW getting decision over Lara.

And it isn't just whether the right winner was selected by the judges. How many fights do you see now where the "hometown" or "bigger name" fighter wins 118-110, 118-110, and 118-110(10 rounds to 2 ). And every person watching and scoring online (fans or boxing writers), score it 114-114 up to 116-112. Freaking judges get the right winner if you aren't going to score it a draw, but they have it as a wide fight and they are fucking wrong.

So tired of the 3 judges being the only ones on Earth that score a fight the way that they score it.