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How did you score it?: Round 3


This time, we're going to talk about a classic welterweight world title fight.

On February 13 1999, WBC welterweight champion Oscar de la Hoya made the sixth defense of his title, which he conquered in rather controversional fashion a couple of years earlier against the legendary Pernell Whitaker, facing this time a highly skilled contender in his prime, Ike Quartey.

Product of the Ghanean boxing tradition, which is no doubt the most prolific one on the African continent, even though South Africa is pretty solid as well in this regard, Quartey was mainly known for his superb jab, and in this fight, he used it with exceptional accuracy and consistency against a fighter who had himself a pretty good jab, but who was mainly known for his devastating left hook.

I thought Quartey proved to be the more skilled boxer in the bout, but Oscar showed true grit, and by the force of his determination, especially in the last three rounds, he made it a much closer fight than it could have been had he given up after being largely outclassed coming into the 10th round.

Judge Larry O'Connell had it 114-115 in favour of Quartey, while judges Ken Morita and John Keane had it respectively 116-112 and 116-113 for Oscar, making it a split decision victory for the Golden Boy.

The 6th and the 12th round were especially awesome.

Here's my card:

Round 1: De la Hoya 10-9

Round 2 : Quartey 10-9

Round 3: De la Hoya 10-9

Round 4: Quartey 10-9

Round 5: Quartey 10-9

Round 6: Quartey 10-9 (both men score knockdowns but Quartey won the round in my opinion so I scored it for him)

Round 7: Quartey 10-9

Round 8: Quartey 10-9

Round 9: Quartey 10-9

Round 10: De la Hoya 10-9

Round 11: De la Hoya 10-9

Round 12: De la Hoya 10-8 (De la Hoya drops Quartey, but some could argue that overall, Quartey won the round)

So 114-113, 7 rounds to 5 for the Ghanean, with the 10-8 round for Oscar in the 12th making it a one point victory for Quartey.

There were only two swing rounds in my view, the 4th and the 11th, which could have been scored either way because neither men did much in these, the other rounds were rather easy to score.

Here's the fight:

Now, your turn, what's your card?

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