Originally posted by j
This is what matters when a fight goes to a decision: "Who has the most points when we add up the cards?" Period. I don't think Collazo won the fight. I scored it close for Hatton, giving every benefit of the doubt to Collazo that I could.
The average fan who doesn't understand the sport gets all confused when the fight goes to the cards and the fighter with the swelling under his eyes wins. Or that the losing fighter had a big round late in the fight. Listen up. It's meaningless...not to the fight itself, or the scoring of THAT ROUND, but to judging the WINNER of the fight. I wish some people would get that through their heads, so we wouldn't get everyone crying over decisions that are in fact correct ones.
What also happens is a fighter does better than expected and so everyone starts giving him every round, whether he won it or not. Everyone loves the Cinderella story and while their minds start writing it, they stop really watching and scoring the fight, because they get so excited and mesmerized by a surprising performance, whether it's a losing one or not.
Juarez and Collazo both did better than most expected, and both lost, deservedly. Not because they didn't inflict more punishment at times, over even overall, but because they simply didn't have as many points on the cards as their opponents.
Incorrect decisions do happen. But not nearly as often as most believe.
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