I agree, Mike! Ike did lose. That wasn't the point I was arguing. Quartey clearly faded in the latter rounds. However, Quartey was landing the harder, cleaner shots from rounds 1-8. He didn't pitty-pat his jab or slap Wrights arms like Winky did to get points. He engaged Wright A LOT more that Wright engaged him. But, at one point in the fight he just gassed out and went into defensive mode. But there was never a time in that fight he wasn't answering Wright. There were times when Wright wasn't answering Quartey. Wright would let Quartey unload while he would just stand in defensive posture. Sometimes against the ropes. Sometimes not.
Wright won, and I didn't mean to give the impression that he didn't. My problem wasn't with Wright. My problem was with the ref, and the scoring. There was NO WAY that Wright had landslided Quartey the way the scoring reflected. After each round, even when it was clear that Quartey had taken the advantage, the rounds were scored for Wright.
Now there's no argument in the world that can make up for Quartey's fading in the late rounds, but I've around and been a fan of boxing for way to long not to know when politics play a role.
As I wrote before, Quartey showed that despite getting bad calls(Forrest & DLH) he can still be competitive. Wright on the other hand is getting hit a lot more than he ever has before. Congrats to Wright, but the tainted victory IMO is probably making other contenders more eager to fight him now. If a 37 year old Quartey can get inside and do that, I'd love to see what Taylor would do different the second time around.


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