Goodnight, Irene wrote:
I scored exactly the same way (1st fight). It was closer on my card than the official ones. Winning the final round wouldve given Ali the victory for me, although it would have been against the run of momentum, which was totally with Frazier in the latter stages of the battle.
I scored the fight on March 8, 1971 from my seat at the Oklahoma City Civic Center Auditorium watching it on closed circuit TV: Frazier - 9; Ali - 6. Under a 10-point must system, 144-140, Frazier (I would have scored round 15 as 10-8, Frazier).
So it wasn't that close to me.
P.S.: I have two rules for scoring fights:
1. I only score fights that I see live. (That way, I'm not influenced by what I see and read post-fight, and the scores are MY scores, not some politically correct BS).
2. I don't rescore fights. (The judges don't get to . . . why should I?)
Ray, do you recall how much a closed-circuit ticket was for the FOTC?
I was a nearly broke college student back on 3/8/71 and just couldn't afford a ticket.
Seems to me a closed-circuit ticket was somewhere around 35 bucks in Baton Rouge, LA that night.
Does that sound about right?
I did see a condensed replay in a local theatre a week or two later for somewhere around 4 to 5 bucks.
Oh gosh, Yancey. That's too long ago. $25 or $35 sounds about right. It wasn't cheap. I was a junior in high school. Memories . . .
