46 Press scores for Froch-Groves - 2 judges way wrong

[greynotsoold]

I had it 78-73, 6-2 in rounds with the extra point for the knockdown.

[Silkeyjoe]

I had it 78-73, 6-2 in rounds with the extra point for the knockdown.

Bang on for me too. ANd one of the rounds for Froch could easily have been a 10-10 round. Think round 6 you could make a case for a 10-8 to Groves too, landed a lot of very heavy shots, very one sided.

[fightscorecollector]

i dont think Froch is doing himself any favours saying that the ref saved Groves career by stopping it

[Silkeyjoe]

i dont think Froch is doing himself any favours saying that the ref saved Groves career by stopping it

Not at all. Hes a disgrace. He should have said it was a great fight and I felt I hurt him and was on the verge of getting the KO. Everyone knows Groves got screwed.

[Silkeyjoe]

i dont think Froch is doing himself any favours saying that the ref saved Groves career by stopping it

Not at all. Hes a disgrace. He should have said it was a great fight and I felt I hurt him and was on the verge of getting the KO. Everyone knows Groves got screwed.

But I suppose Frochs verbal diarrhea will hype the rematch and boost PPV sales

[BIG H]

This just further highlights how corrupt 2 of the judges were.

[powerpuncher]

i dont think it was that bad. i had it 5-3 after the 8th round. also, one of those rounds i gave to groves could have gone to froch. although groves was doing better all around, round by round, i could see it being even without counting the knockdown.

[bzkfn]

I had it 78-73, 6-2 in rounds with the extra point for the knockdown.

I had it exactly the same.

[BIG H]

I had it 78-73, 6-2 in rounds with the extra point for the knockdown.

I had it exactly the same.

Me too

[Fenster]

Shock! Horror! A scoring controversy. It only happens every fucking week.

Mike Costello for Radio 5 live, who was commentating with Steve Bunce and Adam Booth, had Groves just one point up as well. I wonder how much he was paid to fix it?

Premature stoppage? In Britian? No way. You never see premature stoppages in Britain.

[smashup]

Probably the reason he works on the radio then.

At a push an absolute push Froch won 3 rounds.

[erics44]

Probably the reason he works on the radio then.

At a push an absolute push Froch won 3 rounds.

i agree

jim watt score the 5th to froch, i dont think he won that, it was his best round thus far in the fight but you cant give a fighter a round just for doing better than he had been

7th there is a case but youd have to be very kind

and the 8th was frochs best round

[Fenster]

Probably the reason he works on the radio then.

At a push an absolute push Froch won 3 rounds.

That proves the point. You accept Froch could have won 3 rounds watching on TV with the influence of camera angles, commentary, punch stats and replays.

The judges and people ringside are watching from a totally different perspective. If rounds can be interpreted different from the TV, where everyone is viewing the same angles, then they can definitely be seen different ringside.

Hence every fucking week people moaning and groaning about fixed judging.

[erics44]

Probably the reason he works on the radio then.

At a push an absolute push Froch won 3 rounds.

That proves the point. You accept Froch could have won 3 rounds watching on TV with the influence of camera angles, commentary, punch stats and replays.

The judges and people ringside are watching from a totally different perspective. If rounds can be interpreted different from the TV, where everyone is viewing the same angles, then they can definitely be seen different ringside.

Hence every fucking week people moaning and groaning about fixed judging.

everyone else at ringside agreed with @smashup

dont come with all the persective voodoo shit, the judging was even more shocking than the stoppage

[smashup]

I said at an absolute push Froch won 3 , fuck I struggle to give him 2 personally.
Listen I've sat ringside many, many times and im talking directly behind Jim Watt etc and at times with my elbows on the canvas taking pics and there is no way 2 out of 3 proffesional 'judges' can possibly get it that wrong no way in a million years is that even possible, its really not as hard as you think sitting ringside to score a fight , I used to do mine all the time on a bit of paper and was never anywhere near that far wrong and (these guys are "professionals" scoring a world title fight ?) not even close and a lot of other young press guys would do the same and again same outcome, maybe a point here or there but never a huge blatant swing in the opposite direction of what everyone else saw.
Pisses me off when people defend dodgy judging/reffing as it harms the sport and fucks up fighters lives and careers.
Its no different to goal line technology in football, people had enough of bad dodgy descisions effecting results and something was finally done to stop it ever happening again.
Boxing needs to follow suit, do the same ,ban them and give the fighter a fair chance.
Simple really.

Also....

Where were all these scoring punches that Froch landed?
There were none apart from the odd few early a few more in spats mid rounds then obviously the 9th and bar the 9th none that made him look like he dominated any one round at all.
People need to wake up and realise boxing is still heavily corrupt and always will be and until its sorted fighters like Groves will continue to get shafted left right and centre.
I really wanna see rematch because I think Groves will do the same again early then just go all out and win it inside 2 rounds instead of holding back.
In hindsight I bet he's beating himself up bad for doing that.