Gennady Golovkin vs. Canelo Alvarez - Page 3

On September 18 2017 03:28 whamm! wrote: It could've been way worse. If Canelo won, the whole "he landed cleaner shots" argument could be used as well. It says a lot when they're focusing on the 110-118 thing when clearly if they scored it 110-111 for Canelo there wouldnt be much buzz about controversies today. Boxing rules for judging and scoring is starting to get exploited by smarter fighters nowadays since Floyd realized that making people miss and countering appears more impressive to judges than controlling the ring/fight

the problem is not how boxing rounds are scored or people exploiting them, the problem is obvious corruption and the athletic's comission lack of action on repeated offenders like byrd and pope

I was there for Canelo vs Lara, and we left in the 11th round to avoid getting stuck in the crowd cuz the fight was pretty boring and it was very clear that Lara won at least 8 rounds at that point (I personally thought it was 9-2 for Lara when we left). When someone told me after that Canelo won, I assumed he KO'd Lara in the 12th. Didn't see it was a decision til the next day and my head exploded.

De La Hoya must be paying those judges well.

hm after reading some online it seems that like 90% of people think GGG won by at least a small margin

maybe I should start considering considering the possibility that I had it wrong :D

nah man, one could say canelo landed cleaner and had more snazzy combos. some judges who are not super technical about boxing could've scored it for canelo even. like i said, since floyd made it so that opponents looking silly after missing shots counted for something i think it kind of redefined what winning a boxing match is all about, before it was all about who came to fight now its just weird how being elusive is like some credit in close, even non-eventful matches. ggg's power was overestimated and canelos chin underestimated. i bet on ggg too

It was a draw, if I had to give it to someone I would give it to Canelo.