CompuBox PunchStats: Diaz-Malignaggi
by Scott Christ on Aug 24, 2009 1:12 AM EDT
in Boxing Results and Post-Fight Analysis
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These punch stats tell us one thing: It was a close fight, and a lot of scoring for this one depends on which guy impressed you more. Malignaggi worked pretty effectively behind a jab and I thought he did an excellent job controlling distance against the shorter Diaz for much of the fight, which is why I scored it for Paulie. If you were impressed by Diaz essentially abandoning his jab (not that he's ever been a jabber) and going for power shots, and doing a fair job with that gameplan especially to the body, it's easy to see why you would score it for "The Baby Bull."
Let me be clear, since we've had the discussions in the comments of the many posts that have been dedicated to a fight I didn't think would generate too much interest: I don't think Paulie was robbed in the traditional sense that he definitely, absolutely, for sure, no arguments won this fight and had the win taken away. This was not Casamayor-Santa Cruz or Burton-Augustus.
This was really a good, competitive fight that I think could be scored either way. Juan Diaz did not win 10 rounds. Paulie Malignaggi didn't either. Most folks had it 7-5 one way or the other, some had a draw, and I was heavy for Paulie at 8-4. This is a fight that is going to play out now a lot like Cotto-Clottey did, though the circumstances are a bit different. Cotto-Clottey was a damn good fight, and 99% of the post-fight talk from everyone centered on Clottey being "robbed" or not. The same thing is, sadly, happening here, though this one is more upsetting, because it is clear that Van Hoy went out of his way to put the screws to Malignaggi.
The brief CompuBox summary of the fight even touches on what's really wrong here: "GALE VAN HOY’S 118-110 SCORE FOR DIAZ WAS AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE."
Total Punches Landed / Thrown
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Jabs Landed / Thrown
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Power Punches Landed / Thrown
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Final PunchStat Report
Punches Landed / Thrown
| Total Punches | Jabs | Power Punches | |
| Diaz | 178 / 663 | 55 / 229 | 123 / 434 |
| 27% | 24% | 28% | |
| Malignaggi | 191 / 949 | 111 / 621 | 80 / 328 |
| 20% | 18% | 24% |
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I’m not criticizing the way anyone scores fights. This was a very tough fight to score, with several close rounds. But while I watching the fight and trying to keep tabs with the great RBR, in betweeen rounds, I got the feeling that rounds 6, 7 and 8 would be the most controversial and would probably decide the fight. Just curious if anyone reviewed those rounds and came up with a different score.
In particular, I was pretty off scoring round eight the first time around. That happened to be when I had to answer the call of nature, and I missed a good portion of it. I scored it for Paulie based on what I read in the RBR comments, but when I saw the full round on Sunday I had it pretty solidly for Diaz. The punchstats seem to bear this out, with Diaz outlanding Malignaggi 16 to 14, with almost double the number of power connects. I had round seven for for Diaz too, but on fight night I thought it was a lot closer. On review, it was hard to find any way to give Paulie the round. Again punchstats show that Diaz outlanded Paulie 18-15 in round seven, and landed more than twice the number of power punches. Six was probably the toughest round to score, with Paulie outlanding Juan 20 to 18. But even there almost all of Diaz’s connects were power shots, while more than half of Paulie’s were jabs. Scoring differences in all three rounds could simply be a case of bias in terms of how we weigh effectiveness.
"This fight'll be the nastiest thing you'll ever see. I been sober for six weeks, and that makes me vicious."
-- Randall 'Tex' Cobb
The brief CompuBox summary of the fight even touches on what’s really wrong here: “GALE VAN HOY’S 118-110 SCORE FOR DIAZ WAS AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE.”
Oh yeah, and there can’t be any arguing over this. Van Hoy’s score was an obvious, despiccable fraud. Juan’s own mother couldn’t have come up with that score. But as far as local boxing mafia’s go, Texas has one of the worst in the country. I hate to say it, but we are dreaming if we think they are going to do anything but shrug at this score.
"This fight'll be the nastiest thing you'll ever see. I been sober for six weeks, and that makes me vicious."
-- Randall 'Tex' Cobb
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