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columbo wrote:The sky guys complaining about the result but maybe it's deserved after the Burns-beltran scoring. Not fair on Quigg but in the scheme of things.

So if I'm a twat and escape retribution and you fall foul of cosmic law you'll be philosophical?

columbo wrote:

Horse wrote:

columbo wrote:The sky guys complaining about the result but maybe it's deserved after the Burns-beltran scoring. Not fair on Quigg but in the scheme of things.

No.

It's ney but thanks for your input.

had to laugh at that

crusader wrote:So was the decision unfair to Quigg?

Not really. Quigg was clearly superior in my eyes, but he literally let Salinas take the early rounds. Very frustrating. he won the fight, but not the RBR if that makes any sense.

crusader wrote:So was the decision unfair to Quigg?

im not sure it was unfair .. i thought quigg did enough ... but shouldve started a little earlier to make sure.. salanis was a bit mehhhh..

DMA1987 wrote:

crusader wrote:So was the decision unfair to Quigg?

Not really. Quigg was clearly superior in my eyes, but he literally let Salinas take the early rounds. Very frustrating. he won the fight, but not the RBR if that makes any sense.

It does make sense and I wanted to make a similar statement last week but couldn't find the words.

DMA1987 wrote:

crusader wrote:So was the decision unfair to Quigg?

Not really. Quigg was clearly superior in my eyes, but he literally let Salinas take the early rounds. Very frustrating. he won the fight, but not the RBR if that makes any sense.

Sort of how I saw it. A guy winning the last 5 rounds of a fight probably shouldn't lose a fight, but a guy winning those 5 rounds after losing 6 of the first 7 has already given himself a hole...

Quigg was intimidated early on just because the guy was a Cuban. That should have been an easy win.

Horse wrote:Quigg was intimidated early on just because the guy was a Cuban. That should have been an easy win.

ill agree with that but hind sight is a wonderful thing. They had tactics and a game plan which i thought was a good one, look to slow him down with body shots, let him take the early rounds to do that, then the first minute of the rounds while he's keen, then put it on him. How were they to know he was a bit of a fancy dan.

Finn wrote:

Horse wrote:Quigg was intimidated early on just because the guy was a Cuban. That should have been an easy win.

ill agree with that but hind sight is a wonderful thing. They had tactics and a game plan which i thought was a good one, look to slow him down with body shots, let him take the early rounds to do that, then the first minute of the rounds while he's keen, then put it on him. How were they to know he was a bit of a fancy dan.

I agree with the theory of what they were trying to do, but I can't help but think they started a bit late. I mean should they have chanced giving away that many of the early rounds? Even before hindsight its a very risky strategy. I think the plan was to probably stop him late, but Salinas is an awkward and quite horrible fighter to watch, must be the same to box.

As much as Quigg's tactics were suspect, I think Salinas's turned somewhat dodgy aswell. When he was moving and using his jab he was picking Quigg off but every now and again he would plant his feet in a phone booth type range with his gloves held high and let Quigg tee off on him. He wouldnt be throwing any punches back either which was odd.

The main thing is that Quigg sweeping the last 5 rounds, coupled with the Cuban's whinging and grinning throughout the fight, removes any sense that Scott got a lucky escape / undeserved result.

Excellent perfomance from Quigg really.