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I think Dave Allen deserved that

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Rob Magic wrote: ↑21 Dec 2024, 17:06 I think Dave Allen deserved that

Tbh fans are the one who make a fighter great not the bs decisions like this one. So I'd rather be in a good losing fight than a bad winning fight.

clearly allen shouldve gotten the decision.

you can give fisher the first 4, and if youre very generous maybe the 10th (i still gave it to allen). that's 5 rounds each, and with the kd allen shouldve won 95-94 at minimum. i had it 96-93

to me it qualifies as a robbery because pretty much all the rounds were clear either way, little room to argue swing rounds

Rob Magic wrote: ↑21 Dec 2024, 17:06 I think Dave Allen deserved that

Agreed

100%. Had me fearing for Usyk !!

Blatant robbery. Unfortuanately Fisher is a money maker (despite being shit) so gets the nod.

Boxing is faker than WWE.

tigermoth87 wrote: ↑22 Dec 2024, 05:42 Blatant robbery. Unfortuanately Fisher is a money maker (despite being shit) so gets the nod.

Boxing is faker than WWE.

Fischer has next to no skills. He's just trying to wrestle the other guy out and gets tired by doing so. I don't think he will stay as a money maker for very long. Especially with guys like moses itauma coming.

Yeah it was a robbery but I always find it a bit over the top when said about guys like Fisher or Wilder that they have zero or next to no skills. I mean they're not the best boxers in the world but they fight and they win fights. Even I'm not completely skilless but I don't think I could manage to beat Fisher

JackSprocket wrote: ↑22 Dec 2024, 09:34 Yeah it was a robbery but I always find it a bit over the top when said about guys like Fisher or Wilder that they have zero or next to no skills. I mean they're not the best boxers in the world but they fight and they win fights. Even I'm not completely skilless but I don't think I could manage to beat Fisher

When we say no skill we don't mean they can't fight. We're just saying they're very unidimensional fighters.

Yeah I understand, the expression zero skills just makes me cringe a bit every time

JackSprocket wrote: ↑22 Dec 2024, 10:07 Yeah I understand, the expression zero skills just makes me cringe a bit every time

Let's say they have primitive fighting skills but no modern boxing skills. I mean after the Ko'd the fight transformed into a wrestling match with 2 overweight tired giants who struggled staying up and hardly landed anything clean. Compare that to the lower weight fights that preceded or the heavyweight championship fight that followed and you can easily see that they had nothing to do at such a high level.

Any word on them running it back?
Fisher loses a lot of credibility if he doesn't.

KiwiRider wrote: ↑25 Dec 2024, 14:51 Any word on them running it back?
Fisher loses a lot of credibility if he doesn't.

it looks like it's next

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑25 Dec 2024, 03:01

Why are boxing dads so cringe and embarassing?

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑25 Dec 2024, 17:13

KiwiRider wrote: ↑25 Dec 2024, 14:51 Any word on them running it back?
Fisher loses a lot of credibility if he doesn't.

it looks like it's next

Horray!
Thanks Sean.

He gave up a lot of early rounds

Evander wrote: ↑26 Dec 2024, 05:06 He gave up a lot of early rounds

lost rounds 1-4, won rounds 5-9 and scored a kd. at worst for allen he should have won 95-94, 96-93 if you give him the 10th

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑26 Dec 2024, 05:19

Evander wrote: ↑26 Dec 2024, 05:06 He gave up a lot of early rounds

lost rounds 1-4, won rounds 5-9 and scored a kd. at worst for allen he should have won 95-94, 96-93 if you give him the 10th

It was messy, no sign of a Lionel in there.

Agreed. Dave deserved better than that horsesh*t