Opinions on fights that confuse you

[Taeth]

Not even so much official decisions that you see as bad, everybody's got to have some contrarian opinions on certain fights, these are, among others, mine.

Mosley-De La Hoya II- I actually agreed with the decision but I could see how people might think Oscar won, its this insistence by some that he was robbed that confuses me. He at best won a close decision. Shane was clearly landing the harder punches and Oscar, as usual, got too much credit for flurries that didn't really land

Bernard Hopkins-Jermain Taylor II- I think Hopkins clearly won this fight.
A lot of people seem not to. The first fight is more debatable, Bernard clearly waited too long although its not like Taylor was doing much. But the second fight is almost to the point of not even being debatable to me, Bernard clearly won a majority of the rounds.

JMM-Barrera-I've been a fan of Barrera's for a long long time but he clearly lost this fight IMO. If I remember correctly I wasn't really able to post on Saddo's around this fight so I remember being shocked by how close people thought it was or that some people thought he won. I just don't see it.

Anyway, thoughts?

How did Hopkins win against Taylor the second time? Taylor was landing too many more solid punches.

Mosley-ODLH II- it was close...ish, but Oscar was landing so much more, despite Mosley landing the harder punches he was landing half as often. I wasn't given Oscar credit for missed flurries but some of those punches got through, it wasn't liek when he fought Mayweather.

Marquez-Barrera: Marquez won a close fight, how could you score it otherwise, it was like they were both shadow boxing in the mirror, Barrera deserved a knockdown in the fight and was ahead in the first half of the fight.

[OumaFan]

Not even so much official decisions that you see as bad, everybody's got to have some contrarian opinions on certain fights, these are, among others, mine.

Mosley-De La Hoya II- I actually agreed with the decision but I could see how people might think Oscar won, its this insistence by some that he was robbed that confuses me. He at best won a close decision. Shane was clearly landing the harder punches and Oscar, as usual, got too much credit for flurries that didn't really land

Bernard Hopkins-Jermain Taylor II- I think Hopkins clearly won this fight.
A lot of people seem not to. The first fight is more debatable, Bernard clearly waited too long although its not like Taylor was doing much. But the second fight is almost to the point of not even being debatable to me, Bernard clearly won a majority of the rounds.

JMM-Barrera-I've been a fan of Barrera's for a long long time but he clearly lost this fight IMO. If I remember correctly I wasn't really able to post on Saddo's around this fight so I remember being shocked by how close people thought it was or that some people thought he won. I just don't see it.

Anyway, thoughts?

How did Hopkins win against Taylor the second time? Taylor was landing too many more solid punches.

Mosley-ODLH II- it was close...ish, but Oscar was landing so much more, despite Mosley landing the harder punches he was landing half as often. I wasn't given Oscar credit for missed flurries but some of those punches got through, it wasn't liek when he fought Mayweather.

Marquez-Barrera: Marquez won a close fight, how could you score it otherwise, it was like they were both shadow boxing in the mirror, Barrera deserved a knockdown in the fight and was ahead in the first half of the fight.

I don't know, if you argue Taylor won through activity, ok but that's not how I score fights, clean punches? Hell no, Bernard landed the cleaner shots.

I thought Shane landed the cleaner, harder punches. I won't spend a lot of time debating it as I'm not gonna argue that Oscar couldn't have gotten the nod, it was a close fight, I just was always baffled by robbery talk.

Barrera-Marquez I've only seen once and I don't remember my exact scorecard but it depends on what you think is close, I definitely had Marquez winning by more than a point or two, he was just doing more effective work most of the rounds.