Quote Originally Posted by hitmandonny


at most i gave ODH 3 rounds.
The fact is that the three professional judges scored the fight a lot more evenly over rules any opinions you or I might have, on fight night, we do not matter, the judges make the decision.

if you know abit about boxing and defense, then you'll know oscar was hardly landing anything when he threw a flurry, and was rocked by a counter right, so he became abit shy after that.
Oscars own defense was excellent that night, couple that with Floyd slow punch output and you will see that Floyd landed very little also.

but ppl like ricky hatton, seem to think that it was a close fight. IT WAS NOT. and those that say it was just dont know anything about boxing.
I personally would be of the opinion that with a record of 43-0-0 (31), Ricky Hatton knows plenty about boxing.

yes i'll agree the rounds were tense, and could of gone either way at times, but mayweathers defense was too much.
basically what i wanted to get clear was....mayweather - de la hoya fight should not have been scored closely, mayweather clearly won.
Defense is not enough.
Judges often operate of a 4-way system on which they base their analysis of the fight and subsequently their scoring.
The four sections they analyse are:
1)Clean Punching
2)Ring Generalship
3)Defence
4)Effective Aggresion.

1) The clean punching went to Floyd, as always he punched beautifully when he decided to counterattack
2) The Ring Generalship was evenly dispersed, Oscar cut off the ring well, Floyd moved well.
3) Defence was to Floyd of course altho DLH was masterful also.
4) This went to Oscar, fighting in spurts which he converted well to scoring punches.

It's not like the amateur where it's entirely punch based, in the pros a punch on the gloves may be as effective as those landed on the head, it's all debatable and as iv said no matter how we debate it, we will be ignored as on fight night only the judges opinions matter.


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#229. Just a superb analogy of the fight. The best I've heard thus far.