CompuBox Review: Worst Title Fight Decisions

[WelshDevilRob]

CompuBox Review: Worst Title Fight Decisions

Posted by: CompuBox on 12-09-2009.

 

In the wake of Joan Guzman’s gift draw vs. Ali Funeka, courtesy of two inept Canadian judges and the absurd scorecard turned in by judge Pierre Benoist for the Williams-Martinez fight, CompuBox searched its archives for the worst decisions in its 25 years of counting punches in terms of the edge in punches landed by the jobbed fighter.

 

The numbers from Tiberi-Toney, thought to be maybe the worst decision in a title fight in recent memory, are actually dwarfish compared to those from Lewis-Holyfield. But wait, it gets worse, the all-time heist is Dorsey-Paez I. Dorsey outlanded Paez 620-340 in total punches and still lost a split decision! Dorsey landed an average of 52 punches per round vs. Paez, throwing 114 per frame. The overall CompuBox average is 18 punches landed per round and 56 thrown. So Dorsey landed nearly three times the Compubox average. Of Dorsey’s 620 total connects, 609 were power shots (non-jabs). Talk about getting it done on the inside.

 

The fighter on the short end of each decision not only landed more punches, but threw more as well in every fight except Tiberi-Toney. Toney threw 14 more punches.

 

Fighter (Landed/Thrown) Result Fighter(Landed/Thrown) PunchesLanded Edge

 

 

Troy Dorsey (1) (620/1365) L 12 Jorge Paez (340/697) 280

Lennox Lewis (348/613) D 12 Evander Holyfield (2) (130/386) 218

Dave Tiberi (3) (439/905) L 12 James Toney (290/919) 149

Jose Santa Cruz (246/801) L 12 Joel Casamayor (4) (129/502) 117

Mike McCallum (332/849) L 12 James Toney (232/714) 100

Oscar dela Hoya (263/648) L 12 Felix Trinidad (166/462) 97

Oscar dela Hoya (221/616) L 12 Shane Mosley (5) (127/496) 94

Pernell Whitaker (311/790) D 12 JC Chavez (220/637) 91

Ali Funeka (248/903) D 12 Joan Guzman (163/493) 85

Manuel Medina (6) (273/1466) L 12 Johnny Tapia (193/722) 80

 

1. Dorsey’s 620 landed punches the all-time CompuBox record for one fighter in a title fight

2. Holyfield averaged 32 punches thrown per round, 14 less than the heavyweight average

3. The totally disgruntled Tiberi never fought again

4. Casamayor was knocked down in round one.

5. Mosley averaged 11 punches landed per round, CompuBox avg. is 18 landed per round

6. Medina threw an all-time CompuBox record 1005 jabs

[grapevine241]

im not sure which of the trilogy that mccallum-toney is but i think i scored them all for toney

 

also i had de la hoya winning the second mosley fight

 

funeka-guzman was closer to me than people act like, i had funeka by maybe 2 rounds or less.

 

but yeah most of the others are really bad decisions.... whitaker-chavez is probably the worst IMO.

 

like ecto55 said punchstats dont tell the whole story

[Irish5678]

It is interesting to see also "power punch" statistics in these fights.