It’s easy for me to say as a casual observer, but around the 10th round I feel like Lopez took his foot of the gas just a little bit and and I was thinking “oh don’t do that, this is boxing bro, you don’t know what the judges are thinking, keep pressing for the ko”. Turns out he barely won on the score cards! Damn.
That’s absolutely true. Lopez is a Top Rank fighter and I’ve noticed a definite bias from ESPN when reporting on TR fighters and other top fighters from other promoters. There was a major fight not all that long ago (cannot recall the fighter) but they were with another promoter and there were no results at all on the fight on ESPN.
Those 115-113 cards were way off. I never felt like Taylor was committed to fighting like the bigger, taller fighter and against a superior boxer with faster hands that should really have been his plan. Once he gave up the middle of the ring the rout was on. Lopez looked great!
The two judges who had it close had almost identical cards. I agree that it was wider than 115-113, but I felt like I often do about the commentary, which is, they are building a narrative, a compelling story, and the broadcast team was downplaying the significance of Taylor’s offense and championing Lopez down the stretch.
It’s easy for me to say as a casual observer, but around the 10th round I feel like Lopez took his foot of the gas just a little bit and and I was thinking “oh don’t do that, this is boxing bro, you don’t know what the judges are thinking, keep pressing for the ko”. Turns out he barely won on the score cards! Damn.
That’s absolutely true. Lopez is a Top Rank fighter and I’ve noticed a definite bias from ESPN when reporting on TR fighters and other top fighters from other promoters. There was a major fight not all that long ago (cannot recall the fighter) but they were with another promoter and there were no results at all on the fight on ESPN.
Those 115-113 cards were way off. I never felt like Taylor was committed to fighting like the bigger, taller fighter and against a superior boxer with faster hands that should really have been his plan. Once he gave up the middle of the ring the rout was on. Lopez looked great!
The two judges who had it close had almost identical cards. I agree that it was wider than 115-113, but I felt like I often do about the commentary, which is, they are building a narrative, a compelling story, and the broadcast team was downplaying the significance of Taylor’s offense and championing Lopez down the stretch.
It was a great performance by Lopez the best I have seen from him he is the man at 140 now