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Philadelphia (March 17, 2015)--In the aftermath of his IBF elimination bout this past Saturday at the Bell Centre in Montreal, former two-time cruiserweight world champion and current heavyweight contender Steve "USS" Cunningham wants to state his case to what the boxing world saw, and that is the wrong man had his hand raised.

The viewing public saw that Cunningham controlled the bout and out landed Vyacheslav Glazkov in eight of the twelve rounds with jabs being virtually even and Cunningham landing more power shots to the tune of 123-84.

In total, Cunningham out threw Glazkov by 208 punches and out landed him 180-144 over the twelve round battle.

"The numbers, the perception, the video, none of it lies," said Cunningham.

"Look at the stats. Look at his face. The man spit out his mouthpiece three times because he really had no answer for what I was doing to him. I was hurting him to the body. His corner even pleaded with him that he needed a knockout in the final round to beat me. Somehow two judges gave him eight rounds and another gave him seven. Why bother fighting if this stuff is going to happen. I outworked him, out landed him and beat him every which way possible. He was considered the puncher coming into the fight but as the fight progressed it was me walking him down trying to make him fight."

"When will the fans get tired of all these bad decisions? What can the fighters do about that? It has to be the fans that pay the money. Look at my rematch with Tomasz Adamek and now this fight. Right now, I should be a mandatory challenger to fight for the Heavyweight championship of the world but because of these terrible judges, I have to ponder my next move."

Pretty hard to argue with his take.....

On the one hand, it seems like a careful what you wish for situation as he would almost assuredly be knocked out by Wlad, but one the other hand, these guys fight for money and this decision cost him a lot of money. Sadly, nothing he can really do. As a fight fan, he comes to fight and I respect that and would look forward to seeing him again. If he impresses TV guys, he'll be back. That may be the only silver lining for him here.

It is also worth mentioning that there is nothing happening to him that hasn't happened to tons of guys since boxing has been around, just goes with the territory. Doesn't make it right, but some guys get screwed, some of them repeatedly.

So will anyone be complaining when Cunningham gets a shot at Wilder?

so the guy who was about to get knocked out just before he intentionally thumbed troy ross in the eye
is complaining about bad decisions...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQTlpLUm1ZQ

Steve got jobbed.

Talking about overall numbers is meaningless & silly. It means nothing cuz fights aren't judged like that. Show me the round by round stats. I don't think I'd disagree even at that point, but talking about overall numbers doesn't means much.

tiny_acres wrote:So will anyone be complaining when Cunningham gets a shot at Wilder?

I wouldn't

sucracristo wrote:so the guy who was about to get knocked out just before he intentionally thumbed troy ross in the eye
is complaining about bad decisions...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQTlpLUm1ZQ

Yes, and Amir Mansour knocked him out, but shady old Steve Smoger gave Cunningham a long count and helped him survive the round.

Cunningham has been helped by the officials, but whenever he loses a close decision, he cries about it.

On Saturday, if he would have been more aggressive and taken the fight to Glazkov instead of running so much, he would have won on the scorecards.

ReggieDiggs wrote:Talking about overall numbers is meaningless & silly. It means nothing cuz fights aren't judged like that. Show me the round by round stats. I don't think I'd disagree even at that point, but talking about overall numbers doesn't means much.

Did you read the article? Cunningham pointed out a lot more than just the numbers. He controlled the fight as well, keeping it at a distance in the early rounds and then forcing the fight late. He also mentioned something that the announcers failed to mention and that was the multiple times that Czar spit out his mouthpiece. Too many people use the lame excuse about "harder punches", but I didn't see anything in that fight that indicated that Glazkov was landing particularly hard shots, while Glazkov looked pretty beaten up by the midway point of the fight.

Glazkov seems to have some pretty powerful people on his side, because he should have lost 3 times now. I think the Scott and Rossy fights were closer than this one, but for him to get a draw and two decisions in these three fights is pretty curious, especially considering how inactive he usually is in fights. Persoanlly, I think he's being setup for a fight with Wilder.

I had Glazkov winning 115-113. the close rounds I scored for Cunningham could have easily went to glazkov. 117-111 wasn't even a bad score. I watched it on the French channel so I was not influenced by the commentators. the French guys scored it 117-111 glazkov. All I saw was in every round Cunningham may have thrown a few pitty pat shots but it was the clean & hard shots by glazkov that I noticed. 115-113 was the worst case scenario. Glazkov clearly won 7 rounds & a case can be made for him winning as many as 9... no bad decision in my opinion. I WAS CHEERING FOR CUNNINGHAM BUT LOST...

The Great John L wrote:

ReggieDiggs wrote:Talking about overall numbers is meaningless & silly. It means nothing cuz fights aren't judged like that. Show me the round by round stats. I don't think I'd disagree even at that point, but talking about overall numbers doesn't means much.

Did you read the article? Cunningham pointed out a lot more than just the numbers. He controlled the fight as well, keeping it at a distance in the early rounds and then forcing the fight late. He also mentioned something that the announcers failed to mention and that was the multiple times that Czar spit out his mouthpiece. Too many people use the lame excuse about "harder punches", but I didn't see anything in that fight that indicated that Glazkov was landing particularly hard shots, while Glazkov looked pretty beaten up by the midway point of the fight.

I don't believe I shot down anything about the "more than just numbers part" & I even said I don't disagree with his overall stance.

All I'm talking about are overall punchstats over a 36min period has nothing to do with how you'd even measure how good or bad you did in a fight thats based on 3 min results over 12 rounds. Glazkov could have easily outlanded him in 7 outta the 12 rounds & you could still have numbers similar to those mentioned. Thats all I'm saying.