Vlad losing round 5 10-8 is why scoring rounds need to be adjusted & not so absolute

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The scoring was perfectly fine, there were several coin flip rounds, and as this thread shows, people are undecided whether a single round was 10-9 or 10-8.

The Showtime bods had AJ in front going into the 11th and they scored the 5th 10-9.

I think so too. It was a close fight, but Joshua probably edged his share of those early rounds based on Wlad being so hesitant. Wlad was throwing 40-50 punches a round against Haye, but was doing something like 20 a round for the first 4 against Joshua. You can't win rounds on doing almost nothing and being outlanded. Wlad did come on strong, but seemed to gas himself at the end. It was close overall. Think both fighters won about 5 rounds apiece myself with the 11th becoming very one sided.

I saw it differently with the early rounds, I saw Wlad take the centre of the ring, be more assertive and accurate with his punches. He landed some good right hands too.