It has been almost a week since the Carl-Forch-Andre Dirrel fight in Nottingham, England -the second of a series of fights in the unique Super Six Boxing Tournament – where Froch left the ring with a close split decision victory. But, the debate whether Carl Froch was given a ‘hometown decision’ or not is still very much alive in numerous boxing websites forums.
Both boxers thought they won the fight. “I thought I’d out boxed Froch enough to win”, Andre Dirrell said during the post fight interview. He also added that he didn’t know why the referee took a point (away from him) in the tenth round. And he attributed Froch’s getting the win on having a hometown advantage.
On the other side, Carl Froch thought that judges got it right, “it was close but I had no doubt in my mind that I won the fight”, he said after the fight.
But now that the Froch-Dirrel official scorecard is out, perhaps a better analysis of the scores can be made.
(Source: FightNews.com)
Did the one point deduction for excessive holding cost Andre Dirrell the fight?
All judges scored the 10th round 9-9. This means that without the point deduction, Dirrell would have won this particular round, but not the fight. The final scores would have been 115-113 (twice) and 114-114. Still, Froch would have left the ring a victor via majority decision.
It is also interesting to note that there were four rounds in which the judges’ score were identical – rounds 6, 7, 8 and 10. Except for the 10th round, all were for Froch. It would be difficult to argue that Dirrell won any of these rounds.
As to the other rounds, well they were really close and hence difficult to score. I had it 114-113 for Froch but I could be wrong.
To me, the judges’ scoring isn’t controversial. It only tells that the fight was indeed very close and could have gone either way.
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