Quote Originally Posted by tuckwopat
People keep talking about Winky blocking all the shots, he blocked a hell of a lot, but he took a lot to. Body shot, through his defense and around his defense.

You don't block all those shots and come out of the fight looking like Wright did.
I agree that some of Taylor's punches came (partially) through the guard, but he didn't land anything cleanly, like Wright did--except for bodyshots. I don't know why Manny didn't tell Taylor to stick with the hooks to the body--it's not like it drew his hands down any further than he was leaving them the whole fight anyway. If he'd done more of that I think he could have won the fight, or gotten a draw (fairly). As it was, I thought it was a pretty close, but also pretty clear victory for Wright. He fought his fight and forced Taylor to fight it too. Plus the landing more, both on a full-fight and a RBR basis.