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I thought pretty much as the judges 116-112

Kell had the cleaner punches, Porter was aggressive but then faded from 8th onwards just walking straight forward.

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Brook landed/thrown - 147/405 - 36%
Porter landed/thrown - 139/559 - 24%

In round 10 alone Kell landed 50% of his punches.

The above says it all....

Brook won a close match.

bigB wrote:I thought pretty much as the judges 116-112

Kell had the cleaner punches, Porter was aggressive but then faded from 8th onwards just walking straight forward.

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Brook landed/thrown - 147/405 - 36%
Porter landed/thrown - 139/559 - 24%

In round 10 alone Kell landed 50% of his punches.

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brook landed/thrown - 158/441 - 36%
porter landed/thrown - 154/626 - 25%

I had it 115-113 Brook. I think a round up or down could be possible, but not much more than that.

I don't understand how this one could be controversial.

I'm going to watch it again before I vote because I was fading faster than Porter.

Porter did some great body work that I don't think he got credit for.

hulkmaniac wrote:I don't understand how this one could be controversial.

close, not controversial

I think people are just surprised that the away fighter/challenger got the nod in a close bout (that's not a dig at the USA, I would have been equally shocked had Porter got the nod in Sheffield)

Nothing controversial about it, just a bit of a shock

davie wrote:

hulkmaniac wrote:I don't understand how this one could be controversial.

close, not controversial

I think people are just surprised that the away fighter/challenger got the nod in a close bout (that's not a dig at the USA, I would have been equally shocked had Porter got the nod in Sheffield)

Nothing controversial about it, just a bit of a shock

Brook won by at least 3 rounds. Only reason we are discussing is because the UK judge scored the fight a draw. But what is new, there is always one bozo screwing up the scorecards when it should be a unanimous decision.

hulkmaniac wrote:

davie wrote:

hulkmaniac wrote:I don't understand how this one could be controversial.

close, not controversial

I think people are just surprised that the away fighter/challenger got the nod in a close bout (that's not a dig at the USA, I would have been equally shocked had Porter got the nod in Sheffield)

Nothing controversial about it, just a bit of a shock

Brook won by at least 3 rounds. Only reason we are discussing is because the UK judge scored the fight a draw. But what is new, there is always one bozo screwing up the scorecards when it should be a unanimous decision.

Check the poll and check the press scores, most have it by a point or 2

i'm a wildly biased, British, Kell Brook fan and I only had him 2 points up

That's close!

I do however agree, the British ref scoring a draw shocked me as much as the 2 americans giving it to Kell

Max Deluca giving him it by 5 was too wide in anybody's view, surely?

Brook clearly won and I can see anything from 115-113 to 117-111.

I had it 116-113

116-112 Brook...8 to 4 in rounds.

Although I wondered after the fight was over how the judges would score it. With all the holding and some rounds lacked clean punching.