taylor aint hit hopkins flush one time

[riz]

There is no 10-10 round tie, SON . It's a 9-9 tie round.
Learn something about boxing scoring before you comment on it Rasta. No next round, I finished it and U down for the count.....

BTW I haven't seen it but Im saying judges make tons of mistake just like you did.

wow u must be dumb, its not a 9-9 round, it IS a 10-10 round, if its a tie.

[RastaSmoker]

There is 10-10 rounds if they are even. You get a 9-9 round if the fighter who won lost a point.

Thank you, thats what i thought

[scap]

This is how i would view it as a judge.
Hopkins is a very low starter so it's easy to take advantage of him early on. This is where Jermain should dominate. Jermain has to be agreesive early and if he isn't effective in his agression, the round has to to go to Hopkins. Jermain's strength is to end the fight early or dominate Hopkins early, not to do very little early on and going into the late rounds with Hopkins and tire out.

I hear a lot people saying the early rounds nothing happened.
Jermain was active but not effective. Hopkins did very little and people award Taylor the round. Why? Because he worked harder and Agressive. Wrong way to score.

Agression and work is pointless if you get nothing done and in my book a losing round because in the end the agressive guy wasn't affective and wasted his energy. He didn't land flush shots and wasted valuable time and energy accomplishing nothing? That plays into Hopkins book, not Taylor's and Taylor got tired from his early round work. If Taylor worked hard and Hopkins seemed uncomfortable or had to work hard to keep Taylor off early on it might be a different scenario.

I don't know till I see it myself but I hope this clarifies some points on how to score the non-Larry Merchant way.

BTW close rounds go to the champ. People have to remember that otherwise ever Joe schmoo would win a close fight. You have to BEAT the champ, to be the champ, not end up in a tie

I believe in the challenger having to take the title away from the champ but what you have laid out here is some pretty shaddy ****.

If Nard knew these rules before hand I dont think he would have ever engaged Taylor, he would have ran around tying every round and on your card he would have pitched a shutout.

I had zero rooting interest in this fight and simply wanted to see a great fight. I saw a good fight in which I gave to Taylor by the smallest of margins, I am completely open to the fact that I could be wrong and I look forward to watching it again...

But...

A boxing champion should not recieve "diplomatic immunity" so to speak in the ring and in a wierd way this is what you are suggesting.