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boxing_rocks wrote:

Badhusker wrote:The crowd played a factor in how the judges scored it, as most predicted. Many of the shots the crowd went wild over were blocked by Spence's gloves, as was showed on replays in slomo. Who you gave the close rounds to depends on where you are from, or who you were rooting for. Compubox clearly showed Spence was more effective. How beat up their faces at the end told a good part of the story in this fight. Spence admitted the long layoff affected his performance. He is the kind of boxer that performs better when busier. At the end of the day, if one fighter quits, the rest of the "who was ahead" part doesn't matter.

I'm not convinced Crawford takes Spence to school like some have said. My money would be on Spence. Pretty substantial size advantage, probably reach too. Arum will avoid that match-up as long as possible. Spence will beat Thurman, but not an easy fight.

That crowd factor or whatever other factors work like a charm EVERY TIME in the U.K. Name one time in the last 5 years when a British fighter didn't get a win against a foreigner in a close fight. If Brook didn't take the knee and lasted 4 more minutes, he had good chances to get a nod.

Ossyrules wrote:

boxing_rocks wrote:

Badhusker wrote:The crowd played a factor in how the judges scored it, as most predicted. Many of the shots the crowd went wild over were blocked by Spence's gloves, as was showed on replays in slomo. Who you gave the close rounds to depends on where you are from, or who you were rooting for. Compubox clearly showed Spence was more effective. How beat up their faces at the end told a good part of the story in this fight. Spence admitted the long layoff affected his performance. He is the kind of boxer that performs better when busier. At the end of the day, if one fighter quits, the rest of the "who was ahead" part doesn't matter.

I'm not convinced Crawford takes Spence to school like some have said. My money would be on Spence. Pretty substantial size advantage, probably reach too. Arum will avoid that match-up as long as possible. Spence will beat Thurman, but not an easy fight.

That crowd factor or whatever other factors work like a charm EVERY TIME in the U.K. Name one time in the last 5 years when a British fighter didn't get a win against a foreigner in a close fight. If Brook didn't take the knee and lasted 4 more minutes, he had good chances to get a nod.

I normally prefer challenging bull shite to correct, but what the hell

Through round 10 the judges had spence by 5, 3 and 1. There was a 10-8 round coming up in 11. So make that 7, 5 and 3.

There was 1 round to go.

There was no way I see brook rallying to win the last. The fight was going 1 way. For arguements sake, let's say he digs deep to lose a 10-9 and stop the 10-8 rot

The scores read spence by 8, 6 and 4

There was no way brook was getting a decision

Once you've finished smoking your own, maybe you can drop the anti uk decisions shite, and stop calling every fight you don't agree with a "robbery"

boxing_rocks wrote:

Ossyrules wrote:

boxing_rocks wrote:
That crowd factor or whatever other factors work like a charm EVERY TIME in the U.K. Name one time in the last 5 years when a British fighter didn't get a win against a foreigner in a close fight. If Brook didn't take the knee and lasted 4 more minutes, he had good chances to get a nod.

I normally prefer challenging bull shite to correct, but what the hell

Through round 10 the judges had spence by 5, 3 and 1. There was a 10-8 round coming up in 11. So make that 7, 5 and 3.

There was 1 round to go.

There was no way I see brook rallying to win the last. The fight was going 1 way. For arguements sake, let's say he digs deep to lose a 10-9 and stop the 10-8 rot

The scores read spence by 8, 6 and 4

There was no way brook was getting a decision

Once you've finished smoking your own, maybe you can drop the anti uk decisions shite, and stop calling every fight you don't agree with a "robbery"

Read my short post. I didn't mean fight with clear domination of a guest fighter and multiple KDs. I said "If Brook didn't take the knee", meaning that he wouldn't lose an additional point. The judges could give him the last two rounds then, meaning two more points.