I think that scorecard is pathetic if you had one or the other winning eight rounds.
Good fight, close fight, hard to score fight...I felt like 114-113 for either guy is the proper score. MAYBE 115-112 for Geale would be okay, since he scored a knockdown and could've possibly won seven rounds, considering many of them were close.
Like I said though, in rounds the fight was 7-5 for either guy, or 6-6 apiece. I have no issue w/ Barker winning, even though I had Geale winning 115-112.
Man this was a really tough fight to score I had Barker winning a very close D . I agree with the guy above me who said you need to beat the champ Barker did not beat the champ. I have a lot more respect for Barker getting off the canvas from that body shot not many men could have gotten up and fought the way he did .I became a big fan of his by his effort. Geale is one tough son of a gun he will be back. I would love to see them fight again. I can not argue about this decision. If I had bet on this fight I would be very up set. Let me tell you what I did see, Geale missed a lot of punches on the inside, and he held on a lot. If I were judging it this would have hurt him a little but the good things he was going . Geale was pressing the fight if he had not pressed the fight would not have been as good as it was. I gave the fight the Barker
It was a closely fought match that's hard to score. But the knockdown scored by Geale and the fact that Barker did not take the fight to him consistently enough to prove his desire to win and his superiority beyond any shadow of doubt should have prompted the judges to call it a draw at least or a close win for the defending champion.
The method of scoring fights round for round has led to compartmentalized thinking among the judges making them unable to decide the result of fights in its entirety.
Let's bring the old boxing tradition of giving the champion the benefit of the doubt in closely fought matches. In fairness to their efforts at getting crack and winning the title generally the hard or hardest way. Let's stop this BS of giving the challenger the title in virtually the silver platter on account of the current compartmentalized scoring system. The whole as they say will always be bigger than the sum of all its parts. We have seen it in the Pacquiao-Marquez and the Pacquiao-Bradley fights which produced deviating results.
115/112 BARKER
Gave Barker rounds 2,3,5,7,8,9,10,11
Gave Geale rounds 1,4,6,12
I was pretty upset that they gave the title to Barker. He did not look like a fighter who had dethroned the champion. Given that he also scored a knockout, I thought the Judges would have given the fight to Geale, I scored it in his favour too.
What do u guys think?
