Trout - Lara is on !!!

[Ron Swanson]

this is a good fight that is made but im surprised people think it will be exciting. im sure it will be pretty boring. i cant see it being exciting at all. neither guy comes forward and they will both try to counter punch. i have a feeling that the fight will be a very slow pace with lara coming out with the victory.

Guess I'm mister to the contrary tonight. Not one person in this thread has said the fight will be exciting. It's totally different to say you are excited. You could be excited by the matchup, the skill on display, the competitive matchup, etcetera. One person did say it should be an awesome fight but again it could be awesome for various reasons and not necessarily because it is by standard acceptance exciting..
Sorry about being such a stickler about a statement so benign but my old board drifted farther and farther into interpretations of what was said until everything became complete BS. One of the things I've appreciated in my short time here is I haven't seen too many statements taken out of context or twisted into something completely different. Much respect to this board for that.

[Violent Demise]

I scored it a draw and I don't think that's unrealistic

I can see the draw if I tried hard enough. But that's besides the point. I just don't understand how some people say that knowing the scores some how hurt Trout. How? If anything they should of helped him. The scores showed him exactly what he needed to do to win. The fact that he didn't do it isn't the problem. That's understandable. The problem is he never even tried

I think it hurt him because he knew he couldn't do his thing and settle into a boxing match. So he tried to lead and use volume.

But it's beside the point because he simply didn't do enough. Open scoring, normal scoring, whatever, he didn't win and he didn't deserve to win. The rest is just excuses.

You are 100% correct.

[bzkfn]

I'm leaning towards Trout but it is one of those fights that could go either way. Great matchmaking IMO. Props to Golden Boy as they're really making all the quality fights at 154 these days.

[DavilaJones]

I scored it a draw and I don't think that's unrealistic

I can see the draw if I tried hard enough. But that's besides the point. I just don't understand how some people say that knowing the scores some how hurt Trout. How? If anything they should of helped him. The scores showed him exactly what he needed to do to win. The fact that he didn't do it isn't the problem. That's understandable. The problem is he never even tried

Open scoring gets one boxer super defensive if he's ahead and forces the other to become more aggressive than he normally is. It is an unfair advantage especially considering how wide open some of the scores were. Also considering Trout is more of a boxer and..well lets just say it really did have a big effect on the outcome of the fight.

[powerpuncher]

this is a good fight that is made but im surprised people think it will be exciting. im sure it will be pretty boring. i cant see it being exciting at all. neither guy comes forward and they will both try to counter punch. i have a feeling that the fight will be a very slow pace with lara coming out with the victory.

Guess I'm mister to the contrary tonight. Not one person in this thread has said the fight will be exciting. It's totally different to say you are excited. You could be excited by the matchup, the skill on display, the competitive matchup, etcetera. One person did say it should be an awesome fight but again it could be awesome for various reasons and not necessarily because it is by standard acceptance exciting..
Sorry about being such a stickler about a statement so benign but my old board drifted farther and farther into interpretations of what was said until everything became complete BS. One of the things I've appreciated in my short time here is I haven't seen too many statements taken out of context or twisted into something completely different. Much respect to this board for that.

i guess you may be right. i just inferred that people thought it would be an exciting fight. either way, i think its a good fight but not an exciting one.