Reggie Johnson-Jorge Castro 1 and 2

[goose 5]

How bad were these decisions ?

[Woldemar]

How bad were these decisions ?

Saw both fights . I don’t remember
being controversial.

If i rewatch maybe change my mind.

[goose 5]

I re-watched the second fight and gave Castro 4 rounds.

[Woldemar]

I re-watched the second fight and gave Castro 4 rounds.

I saw this bouts 6 years ago. Need rewatch later.

[scartissue]

I scored their second fight a year or so back. This is what I wrote:

Reggie Johnson v Jorge Castro II

This one really annoyed me. Not for anything that happened in the bout or even the atrocious decision. It was the fact that I was watching a telecast from Argentina that had a German commentary. Most of the time I don't mind that as I don't have to listen to any bias. But I was fast-forwarding the one minute respite between rounds just to speed things up and I was just missing the display card of the next round. No big deal until I got to about the 9th or 10th and actually saw the round displayed when I realized I missed a round. As it turns out, the video I saw was missing the 7th round. Here we go anyway. Castro the defending champ.

Round 1: 10-10 Even
Round 2: 10-9 Johnson
Round 3: 10-9 Castro
Round 4: 10-9 Johnson
Round 5: 10-9 Johnson
Round 6: 10-9 Johnson
Round 7: Missing round
Round 8: 10-9 Johnson
Round 9: 10-9 Castro
Round 10: 10-9 Johnson
Round 11: 10-9 Johnson
Round 12: 10-10 Even

Total (without the 7th round) 107-103 Johnson

Even if we give Castro the 7th it would be 116-113 for Johnson on my card. Castro was a clubbing type of fighter whose great success was based on a rock jaw, a great hometown crowd and very accommodating judges. But Johnson's pin-point punching won it comfortably on my card.

[giacomino]

Been a long time since I watched but I seem to remember them being like 7-5 kind of fights. Johnson would have nicked the second one in the US, but I am not sure the scoring was dramatically different than a house fighter would get in Las Vegas (If it were Cáñelo they’d have it a shutout), a UK fighter would get in his hometown or a German belt holder would get in Germany. It wasn’t Shumenov v Campillo II bad or Cáñelo getting a draw with Mayweather or Alan Minter getting the 149-137 card from the British judge vs Antuofermo after getting knocked down, or any number of Ottke fights in Germany, or any number of Cáñelo fights

[goose 5]

If we're allowing even rounds, I'd give Castro 2 rounds.

[tennessee]

I remember a Castro opponent say every punch that Jorge threw was hard for all 12 rounds. Thought it was interesting.

[detamour]

Terry Norris and Roy Jones Brutalised him though, his Wins v John David Jackson were Brutal in his Favour though. Would he of Beaten Hopkins?

[AntonioMartin]

Terry Norris and Roy Jones Brutalised him though, his Wins v John David Jackson were Brutal in his Favour though. Would he of Beaten Hopkins?

No. Hopkins is in Jones' class.