Big Boxing Thread

[horseplayer]

this board official does not even believe what he is saying

[Marky147]

this board official does not even believe what he is saying

Hardly gonna hang him out to dry though

[Bazzaboy]

British referees are a joke. Obviously this one will get a lot of attention due to the profile of the fight but it's far from the worst stoppage I've seen in recent times. No one wants to see fighters badly hurt but in Britain referees have gone far too far the other way. They cannot wait to jump in if a fighter looks hurt in any way.

[mondatoo]

Not really sure why people are predicting the future instead of just looking at what actually did happen. Only takes one punch to change a fight so just seems totally pointless.

The Sky commentators didn't think Froch could still win a decision, I thought 4 rounds would be enough. Not sure how anyone could have it closer.

[horseplayer]

because amazingly two judges only had Groves 1 point ahead

quite how is anyones guess

[Bazzaboy]

because amazingly two judges only had Groves 1 point ahead

quite how is anyones guess

Also a joke. I had it 78-73 Groves. I struggle to see how anyone could possibly have had it closer than 77-74.

[kinboshi]

I remember the uproar over the Holyfield v Lewis fight, mostly by people who don't understand how boxing scoring works.

You can win 4 rounds by a mile, and then lose four rounds by the slightest of margins. The result is that the scores are level. How individual rounds are scored is also misunderstood.

As for the fight tonight, I had Groves ahead by three rounds. Of course, some of the rounds were close and if one of these was the other way, then that would be Groves ahead by just the one round.

[horseplayer]

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BZy2AndCUAAepAj.png:large

[horseplayer]

Why is Eddie Hearn beaming like a Cheshire cat when he runs into the ring, seconds after the fight is stopped?

Not sure i would be to happy about that if he was my promoter like Groves

[Marky147]

LOL

[horseplayer]

thanks for fixing that Marky

friends with Froch as well on facebook

Not suggesting anything btw but why when you are reffing a world title fight or any big sporting event you would leave your social media comments so open is beyond me

[The Baron]

Froch struggles again with speed and boxing skill.

With a rematch I can only see Groves ending his career.

[The Baron]

If Booth was still onside Froch loses tonight IMO

[redarmi]

I remember the uproar over the Holyfield v Lewis fight, mostly by people who don't understand how boxing scoring works.

You can win 4 rounds by a mile, and then lose four rounds by the slightest of margins. The result is that the scores are level. How individual rounds are scored is also misunderstood.

As for the fight tonight, I had Groves ahead by three rounds. Of course, some of the rounds were close and if one of these was the other way, then that would be Groves ahead by just the one round.

Whilst what you say is technically right Dan I don't see what relevance it has to this fight.  Groves had a 10-8 round to start the fight.  Froch would have to have won the rest of the fight to only be down by one.  There just wasn't anything like enough close rounds.  You can look at it anyone of a number of ways but I think the simple fact of the matter is that they put a bad referree in the middle.  When I saw he was reffing I though to myself that it was a long way from the York Hall to here and he reffed the whole bout like it.  There were numerous cases of the fighters failing to break, putting in sly (and not so sly) digs after the break call and a couple of punches on the back of the head went unpunished too.  The only way it could have been worse would have been if Ian John Lewis had been in the middle.  The whole thing was embarrassing and coming hot on the heels of the Burns fiasco British boxing in general, and Matchroom in particular has a lot of work to do.

[pleno1]

What happened with booth and groves?