Quote Originally Posted by El Gamo
116-112 for PBF,no doubt in my mind BUT Oscar let that fight go.Had he jabbed 30-40 times a round like Roach taught him to,the doubles and triples,he would have won.The rounds he was jabbing in,he controlled,it set up his other shots. Really stupid for a veteran like him to just stop using a winning formula.
Yeah it did seem very odd that he abandoned the jab... But at the same time he obviously had a reason to do so... Either he was too wary of being countered or he knew that he couldn't keep it up over 12 rounds is my guess.. I mean Oscar had a very low output in most rounds and yet expended a lot of energy with flurries that missed their mark.. The fact that he gassed out after the 7th as it was tells me that had he thrown anywhere near that many punches he just would have hit empty by the championship rounds and been ripe for the picking.