HBO - SKY SPORTS -Marquez v Bradley - SATURDAY NIGHT FIGHT CHAT THREAD

[IamInuit]

I don't see how you give the 11th to bradley he literally didnt do jack even the uber biased sky commentary had that one for marquez, and well the 12th i guess if you wana ignore everything till the last ten seconds you can give it to bradley on one big punch landed....well i guess that's the fucked up thing with boxing never any agreement...

By POD Index:

Timothy Bradley won by a split decision, with Glenn Feldman scoring it 7 to 5 for JMM. Robert Hoyle saw is 7-5 for Bradley, and Patricia Morse-Jarman scored it 8 rounds to 4 for Bradley. Glenn Feldman was in the majority in more rounds than Jarman and Hoyle, however.

Judge Consistency %

Feldman 70.8

Hoyle 54.2

Jarman 58.3

Most interestingly, in 7 of the 12 rounds, Marquez won on at least 2 of the 3 judges’ scorecards. In other words, under the consensus scoring system, Marquez would have won 115-113.

Funny thing this judging.

[armin]

."CompuBox official punch statistics from the fight had Bradley landing 168 of 562 punches thrown, with Marquez landing 153 of 455 punches thrown. Marquez landed more power punches, 89 of 224, with Bradley landing 71 from 186 thrown." I just don't see this domination that most everyone else is seeing and those cards and numbers back it up i think. They effectively landed the same amount, marquez had more consensus rounds on the judges cards than bradley, yet to score it for marquez is crazy? and yeah i know compubox can be misleading and all but to me everything about this fights points to a close fight that could have gone either way rather than a boxing clinic put on by bradley as some seem to have it

[armin]

also seems like every big time boxer gets the benefit from the judges( a close fight going their way) or even get a "gift" here or there during their career, yet marquez seems to never do, so imo its understandable when he complains about judges decisions as they never seem to favor him in a close fight.

[Addicted to_boxing]

The problem with Marquez is he is a pure counter puncher and needs offense to get his game going and when facing the outside style he needs to be juiced by a cattle prod. Marquez is clearly the a better fighter, even at 40.

This fight was about deciding who the better fighter is TONIGHT. Bradley was clearly that fighter.

Really floating on your back the last few rounds ala ODLH vs Trinidad. I had it a draw, I just did not see the telling punches and dominance the hugging announcers were relaying to viewers. I would want a rematch if I were JMM. JMM obviously over looked Bradley but had him figurered out the last half of the fight. JMM is always better in rematches. JMM also displayed why is not and never will be a PPV fighter will a legion of followers. He did just enought or earn a rematch with Pac, JMM or Alexander. Money May ....... no way , no how !!!

[beenKOed]

The problem with Marquez is he is a pure counter puncher and needs offense to get his game going and when facing the outside style he needs to be juiced by a cattle prod. Marquez is clearly the a better fighter, even at 40.

This fight was about deciding who the better fighter is TONIGHT. Bradley was clearly that fighter.

Really floating on your back the last few rounds ala ODLH vs Trinidad. I had it a draw, I just did not see the telling punches and dominance the hugging announcers were relaying to viewers. I would want a rematch if I were JMM. JMM obviously over looked Bradley but had him figurered out the last half of the fight. JMM is always better in rematches. JMM also displayed why is not and never will be a PPV fighter will a legion of followers. He did just enought or earn a rematch with Pac, JMM or Alexander. Money May ....... no way , no how !!!

That's a pretty lame excuse your are trying throw at us. Don't talk about over looking anything with Nacho in your corner, besides Marquez is no idiot either. Bradley didn't seem to be loafing around when he almost had Marquez on his ass in the last round.
Marquez lost the fight because he didn't do enough, he's a counter puncher, Bradley is a slick boxer with a good sense of how the fight is going and was not giving Marquez anything to work with. Simple really, plus Bradley wanted it more. If Bradley keeps beating all of these great fighters he might become a solid PPV draw. That's my opinion, Sir.

[Gandalf]

Still 8-4 Bradley. Marquez just didn't seem to do anything for the first half of the fight and only came alive towards the end as Bradley started to slow down. It wasn't close and certainly not a Marquez win as some here are sugesting. I find that to be bad scoring really.

Marquez definitely won the later rounds and landed harder blows, but Bradley was slick and boxed his head off round after round at the start.

[Addicted to_boxing]

The problem with Marquez is he is a pure counter puncher and needs offense to get his game going and when facing the outside style he needs to be juiced by a cattle prod. Marquez is clearly the a better fighter, even at 40.

This fight was about deciding who the better fighter is TONIGHT. Bradley was clearly that fighter.

Really floating on your back the last few rounds ala ODLH vs Trinidad. I had it a draw, I just did not see the telling punches and dominance the hugging announcers were relaying to viewers. I would want a rematch if I were JMM. JMM obviously over looked Bradley but had him figurered out the last half of the fight. JMM is always better in rematches. JMM also displayed why is not and never will be a PPV fighter will a legion of followers. He did just enought or earn a rematch with Pac, JMM or Alexander. Money May ....... no way , no how !!!

That's a pretty lame excuse your are trying throw at us. Don't talk about over looking anything with Nacho in your corner, besides Marquez is no idiot either. Bradley didn't seem to be loafing around when he almost had Marquez on his ass in the last round.
Marquez lost the fight because he didn't do enough, he's a counter puncher, Bradley is a slick boxer with a good sense of how the fight is going and was not giving Marquez anything to work with. Simple really, plus Bradley wanted it more. If Bradley keeps beating all of these great fighters he might become a solid PPV draw. That's my opinion, Sir.

Beating Top Rank fighters by questionable decision, let's not ommit this big fact