I was really hoping Julio would have caught Smith with something heavy in the middle rounds, but he looked patient and didn't load up too often.

As far as the judges go remember they don't have the advantage of seeing all angles of the fight, if Smith's back was turned to them it would have appeared that all of Julio's body shots were landing.

VD said is best when he said Smith lost that fight because of inactivity. When he was pumping the jab Julio was nullified and couldn't get anything going, but we didn't see that often enough from Smith.