marcianofan wrote:
Well I don't like to create controversy where none is necessary, but if you can't see my card as reasonable, then I can't say I appreciate your ability as a judge any more than you probably do mine. And with all due respect and with an exception here or there, I'll put my experience and training against that of anyone here any day.
I will say this: I've been out of the mainstream of opinion to some extent on each of Floyd's last 3 fights...and that's a pretty rare thing for me overall. That likely indicates one of two things, I would think. Either I am inherently incapable of appreciating something about him, or I am stylistically opposed to appreciating something about him that in my view ought not to be appreciated. I'm not certain I can articulate what that x-factor is, since I haven't heard a great deal of discussion as to just what it was that anyone thought he was doing that was winning him so many rounds beyond all reproach. I simply didn't see him landing a significantly higher number of clean effective punches, and if I'm being honest, I don't think I value his simply looking confident as much as I get the sense that some do. I always take a dim view of running (which some people confuse with ring generalship), but I don't really feel like he was doing much of that, if any, and so I doubt that's a factor at all.
Marcianofan, I hear exactly what you are saying. It all depends how one scores a fight. We all have different levels of what wins a round. So, say 1 punch is thrown and clearly lands on the chin (not knockdown) by person A, while person B throws 10 to 15 punches without any landing clean (maybe arms or just air), then some might vote A, some B. These are extreme numbers obviously but we all have different cut offs of how much a non clean punch is worth. Some say none (most of the posters here by the look of it),
some might say 20%, 50%, 80% etc
Similarly, I am fully behind your view on commentary. I had some English guy on my stream (I'm from UK) who was salivating over anything Mayweather did. Going back to Bradley v Pacquiao, which a few have mentioned, I watched that with Eastern European commentary (didn't understand a word) and I was surprised how people were calling that a robbery, despite being a huge Pacquiao fan.
Regarding last night's fight Mayweather won for me but I'd never call that a dominant win. The first few rounds were very even and Alvarez came on strong in the last rounds.
Admittedly I'm not FM's biggest fan either. Despite his incredible skills he fights too defensively and without enough volume. I could appreciate him more if he fought like a peak Roy Jones Jr, although I'm not sure he has that within him.