Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf View Post
Sure, it isn't fun to watch, but if boxing is about hit and not be hit, then Lara did a better job than Canelo. It's not my idea of a fun time at all, but that's where the man who wins the fight then goes on to find that he can never really build a fan base. That is then about commerce. You deserve to win the fight as you technically did, but the fans will then respond by saying 'You don't deserve my support as you didn't give me what I want'. My point is simply that you cannot penalise the fighter for not being fan friendly in that particular fight. There is no scoring criteria for being 'fun'. Let the market dictate what happens to the fighter, but don't ever take away a fighters win as he was simply doing what he could to win and wasn't cheating or breaking the rules.
Can a judge simply not interpret all this "not fan friendly behaviour"(as you call it), as a reluctance to fight while the other fighter is trying very hard to engage in a fight? What Chris Algieri did was far more skilled compared to what we saw Lara doing. He avoided being hit and hit in return. Algieri scored 83 more punches than Provodnikov. This shows that both his defense as well as offense were very effective. Lara out landed Canelo by 10 punches. Clearly Lara did more running to avoid Canelo and had less effective defensive aggression....which is the hit and not get hit comes from.