Poll: How did you score the Shane Mosley-Sergio Mora fight?

I scored it a Mosley win but a FAIL nonetheless.

Mosley was the better of two bad apples.

Tim Starks of The Queensbury Rules summed up my stance better than I did, for the record:

From what I’ve heard about press row scoring and from the way people were talking on Twitter, some did see this as a legitimately close bout. I’ll answer them. I’m not the kind of person who believes in scoring activity or aggression if it’s not effective. Mosley was active, and aggressive, but rarely effective. But what did Mora do that was effective at all for most of the fight? There were rounds where he’d land one right hand that was eye-catching, and then do nothing else but circle and hug. With Mosley fighting even a little — and, yes, landing occasionally, as the bigger punch connect numbers would suggest — I can’t see why anyone would give rounds to the ineffective, not-fighting guy over the ineffective, fighting guy.

And had it 116-112 for Mosley and thought it was a pretty obvious Mosley win. This is coming from someone who, the very same night, scored Parra-Arce 98-92 for Parra. The fights actually weren’t that dissimilar, but the biggest differences for me were that (a) Mosley did occasionally catch up with Mora and get a punch or two off before a clinch and (b) Mora didn’t come in with punches of his own for much longer stretches than Parra. Still, the Arce draw leaves a worse taste in my mouth, just because of the circumstances (Mexican star on Mexican independence day in a bullring in Mexico).