[Other Sport] Fury vs Usyk

Kinky Gerbil said:

Purely going from the comments on TNT last night, they said he didn't actually say it was the wrong result, just the wrong score

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Seagull58 said:

They didn't have the same 4 rounds. I think there were only 7 rounds where all 3 judges cards matched. One judge gave Fury round 1 and Usyk round 2, the other 2 judges had the opposite.
It was a close fight but Fury didn't really do much apart from wave his hand in Usyk's face a lot of the time. Usyk landed more punches and showed more aggressive intent in my eyes.

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Herr Tubthumper said:

I guess this is why them have three different judges?

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jcdenton08 said:

Don’t understand your thinking at all here mate. It’s clearly labelled as a boxing thread, specific to this fight. I don’t go into the racing threads and randomly state to a bunch of racing fans that I don’t like horse racing for ethical or other reasons.

Not every thread has to be for every poster, and I’m not suggesting to limit your free speech, but you have to expect push back when you make statements like the one you just did with limited to no knowledge, experience or understanding of the subject matter.

Perhaps better to scroll past, or if it upsets you to pop the thread on ignore. We don’t all share the same things in common and that’s absolutely fine.

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Kinky Gerbil said:

They mentioned a AI judge last night, is that the way forward?

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jcdenton08 said:

This backs up the point I made above though, in that it comes down to what the judges like when scoring a fight.

Lots of judges would see those statistics and still score it to Fury, because he threw more punches, jabs and power punches - ie he had better work rate. Counter punchers historically don’t score as well with judges.

What the stats also don’t show is ring control, which some judges value very highly. If one boxer is taking centre ring and walking down their opponent, this can work in their favour with scoring.

I gave it to Usyk but it was a very close fight.

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Half Time Pies said:

The judges are meant to be scoring based on clean shots i.e. those that land on the target area, not punches that are thrown but don't connect! I have always found a lot of the punches Fury throws to be quite half hearted, including that annoying back fist he does when he misses, which I am not even sure is legal but he seems to get away with. Fury throwing a load of punches which either missed or hit the gloves also shows the excellent defence of Usyk which is another criteria judges should use to score the fight.

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