Quote Originally Posted by Jesse James View Post
Exactly. JT could have won but he didn't throw nearly enough punches. How the hell can someone say that punch stats don't matter? I thought the object of boxing was to hit the other guy more than he hits you! You can't win a fight by throwing only 30 punches a round and landing 10 of them when the other guy is 25 for 80. Kelly outworked JT, period. Jermain won some rounds by landing the bigger shots, but that only works if the rounds are very close. 2 or 3 big shots don't erase the previous 20 that you got hit with. Anyways, I thought the fight was relatively boring, compared to the first one, they were both very cautious.
Excellent points,have some rep on me. I've said it before and I'll say it again:sometimes punch stats mean nothing in a fight,on other occasions,they tell you the whole story. I think it was the latter with this fight. Kelly threw more,landed more,landed more jabs and it's not as if the punches were concentrated in 1 or 2 rounds,he was consistently outlanding Taylor.And outworking him.

I'll say it again,I don't see how anyone can give that fight to Taylor.I don't really see any convincing arguments for it either.