PUNCH STATS - Froch-Kessler/HBO/SKY

[armin]

I watched the Sky and HBO version of the fight (as a side note - HBO, who I normally quite enjoy, were shit on this fight, it's clearly not smart to employ a fighters active rival to comment, and when fighters start blasting eachother going toe-to-toe it's time to stop waffling about the inane story you were telling and start calling the action).

Anyway - just to highlight how badly flawed punch stats are, and also answer why judges maybe see things so different.

The Sky counters had Froch throwing 998 punches, Kessler 567

The HBO counters had Froch throwing 1,034, Kessler 497

If the guys specifically counting punches ringside can't agree on what is a punch then maybe it's understandable judges, depending on their viewpoint, can interpret punches landing/missing differently?

Pensamientos?

I originally watched the sky broadcast at a friends as we streamed it, and I found the commentary quite good and unbiased. I watched the hbo replay the following day and the crew was just shit on this fight, and yeah punchstats are flawed...

[Fenster]

I watched it the other way around. I heard Ward got booed to fuck when introduced which obviously put him on a downer which probably infected the other two, because i've seen them get far more excited over far less entertaining fights.