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How bad were these decisions ?

goose 5 wrote: ↑15 May 2020, 13:10 How bad were these decisions ?

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

If i rewatch maybe change my mind.

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

goose 5 wrote: ↑15 May 2020, 14:25 I re-watched the second fight and gave Castro 4 rounds.

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

detamour wrote: ↑25 Sep 2020, 12:03 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.