Sturm v Macklin - Who won?

[J_C]

Got round to watching the Macklin fight again today as I had to see what all the fuss with Sturm was about since I scored it 10-2 Macklin 1st time. Was I just so impressed and surprised with Macklin that I viewed him favourably when I watched it live first time?

No. Had it 9-3 Macklin the on 2nd viewing. He won the fight plain and simple, I will never understand how anyone can think Sturm won this fight. If you cherry pick for Sturm I can see a 7-5 Macklin. The middle rounds were closer than I first thought, that was the only difference I noticed this time. Sturm only clearly wins 2 rounds (10 and 12) and there were 3 or 4 closeish ones other than those.

Sturm rallied late and came out his shell in the last 3 (althugh Macklin still wins the 11th). The first 9 rounds you have one guy slogging his guts out throwing a ton of punches constantly, connecting consistently, walking the other back completely controlling the ring and the pace of the fight always getting off first; while the other plods back with a high held guard and peaks out to throw a 1-2 counter or a jab every once in a while.