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EPISODE: Episode 4
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Transcribed:
Ray what do you got for us tonight? Champ: hey? How are you guys doing um? My name is bola raymond and uh.
Once again, thank you for the opportunity to come and give my perspective as to the boxing world here and uh yesteryear um.
This is gon na, be the first of a host of shows that i’ll be doing dedicated to some of the worst decisions in my and several other people’s opinion uh in the professional boxing ranks.
This episode is about the first fight between evander, holyfield and lex lewis march 13th, 1999 um lex.
Well, it saw the first unifying heavyweight title fight of the lot since i heard of that decade and what does lex lewis step into the ring against evan holyfield uh? This was a highly anticipated.
It was the the challenge was to see whether or not atlantic’s lewis had his the ability to keep evander off of him with his long range, his use of his jab and then his push punishing right across um that followed or would evander be able to transverse That distance get inside on him and unleash his uh his power, his dominance via his inside fighting game, big big monstrous left hook.
The first round begins with or first two rounds saw lennox pretty much scanned his ground and out fought evander.
He put his punch together.
Very well um and evander started really slow.
He didn’t do much um in the first round, evander threw 17 punches and landed seven in comparison to lennox, throwing 45 punches and landing 16.
so, and the second round was pretty much the same now going into the third round saw evander come to life um.
He was a lot more aggressive.
He was able to get in on uh linux through a great deal of power, punches uh in close range, and now evander had predicted that he would stop lenox in the third round of which he didn’t, but what he did do he he finally won a round.
So from the fourth round on, i think, mostly because of the fact that what happened in the third round lance got on his bike and boxed beautifully from the outside jabbing, changing up the jab, changing up the speed and the power of the jab um, keeping him Um keeping the vendor at bay and all of evander’s attempts to catch with the hook would fall short, which would then leave, in my opinion, evander off balance.
That’S all he just looked off balance and linux would capitalize on it.
Um.
Let’S go for showed that evander had thrown 163 punches and landed 60, whereas lennox had thrown all right.
I don’t know what happened there.
Linux has thrown by six around 300 303 punches and landed 168.
um.
This scenario played out the whole fight in that lennox would either land around or more punches.
Then he vendor would throw the seventh round comes out and finishes with evander, throwing 24 punches and landing eight, while lennox threw 59 punches and landed 33.
for evander to win this fight from this arm if evander won every round after this point in the fight he’s, Only deserving withdrawal, okay, keep that in mind.
Comp box numbers, don’t lie they just they don’t lie.
You see what the fight dictates or what’s happening in the fight via the stats.
The next two rounds pretty much the same.
Linux was um just how boxed him comfortably, with the exception of the ninth round.
Now this is the only round where myself inherited harold leaderman differed on scoring um.
I felt that even though evander had some moments of success, we were right at a critical point.
There weren’t we where has polar ray gone.
Oh, he is totally gone.
Let’S see, if he’s coming back, he uh his kids must be on the internet as well.
At the same time, it’s all i can think gobbling up all his bandwidth wow.
I was learning a lot from that uh below by below or round by round description of a great fight.
In 99 i was transitioning uh from a company here, uh to a company in hong kong and uh missed this fight.
So it’s kind of neat to hear it in retrospect.
More than 20 years later, i can’t believe how time flies, but uh here we are listening to heavyweight champ bullarey describe it as he saw it and futurely you see.
If down the road, big ray decides to go off into the world of uh, judging professionally sounds like he has the expertise.
I still don’t see him uh coming back on, but uh.
Let’S give him a few minutes.
Hopefully they’ll come back on.
I i certainly want to hear uh the end of this story and hear his thoughts as to what made it uh the worst decision in his opinion, or one of the worst decisions in boxing think about the thousands of fights that have gone on throughout the 70s.
80S.
90S, let alone nowadays thousands of fights.
You know it is a bad reffing, bad training of the refs subjective, objective, the influence of certain people on these reps and or judges.
Maybe it’s time for a change.
Maybe that’s what big ray is getting at.
Is it time for a change um, i’m not seeing anything on my phone or anything on my laptop and on my big screens, uh got a sneaking suspicion, we’ve lost them in front of you live audience, i’m going to see.
If i can reach him.
His ipad died, oh my goodness! Well, let’s see, if you can hear this one ray ray, are you there? Did your ipad die? What happened? I don’t know i’m sitting here.
I was talking away yeah.
You definitely left the meeting.
All right.
Really.
You are not you’re.
You’Re not live anymore, that’s for sure um can.
Can you get back in yeah? I just punched into me.
I’M still on the meeting, so it’s the exact same zoom room.
Okay, your loyal fans are waiting too all right, and here we are marvels of technology.
Let’S see if wow and there he is all right hang on there.
He is fight fans.
Okay, i think we’re at the seventh round.
I was sitting there talking the whole time.
Um yeah, it’s uh yeah about that anyways.
So, seventh round, um evander, threw 24 punches landing.
Eight, where lennox threw 59 punches and landed 33.
um by this point in time, evander if you’ve even won every round for the rest of the fight, you’d only get a drop in accordance with the comfort box numbers and my eyes and leader men in the world.
As far as i’m concerned, the next two rounds pretty much well.
The next round went pretty much the same, but then the ninth ride was the only round where harold lederman and i differed in our prediction.
As to what transpired, um evander found a lot more success with his stereotypical style, leaping inside with the left hook.
Uh, throwing bang um he’s a little more aggressive and found again some more success, but when i felt that lennox gave a hell of a lot more than he got so i gave that around to linux, whereas harold liederman gave it to evander going into the 10th Round evander threw everything at him.
He was.
He was aggressive.
He threw the big punch combination but, more importantly, he caught him quite a few times with both his fists and his head um.
In doing so, there’s there was times when lennox was sitting there complaining to the referee that he just got him head-butted and the united took that opportunity to land a few more shots.
It is what it is.
The last two rounds saw lennox outbox evander beautifully.
He kept his distance, he maintained like he uses for workers when he did that evander couldn’t find him and he won the last two rounds.
Now i gave this fight to lenox 10 rounds to two, whereas uh harold lederman gave it to lennox nine rounds to three.
The compubox, the stats on this fight had lennox throwing 613 punches and landing 385 to evander, throwing 348 punches landing 130.
What could go wrong? What could go wrong? Judge jean williams of south africa uh scored this fight 115 to 113 for for evander.
What fight was she watching like genuinely? What fight was she watching a little side caveat when it comes to scoring it’s a 10 10 point must system so every round.
One of the two combatants must get ten points.
The other person who loses the round gets nine um in the event that there was a knock down.
Then it becomes a 10-8 round for every knock down a point gets deducted.
There was no knockdowns in this fight.
Therefore, you can look at the rounds.
A perfect fight would be 120.
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I scored it.
118 linux 112 um 110 euvander, where harold lieberman had 117 111.
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This one had it 115 113 evander for her troubles.
She was suspended from from reffing fights for four and a half years.
I don’t think it was long enough.
Um judge, stanley, kristen dalloon, scored the fight 116 113 linux and judge larry o’connell scored the fight 115 115.
This fight was seen as a draw.
This was utter madness.
Stevie wonder saw that lennox lewis won that fight.
What were they, what were they watching? What were they watching um november of that same year, a rematch occurred where linux corrected the wrong and got the got the w.
Now, if you thought the scoring was correct, then please give your head a shake and comment down below.
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It’S your boy, bulla thanks very much.
I appreciate all that tonight uh despite the title of the posters.
Maybe we can get that go fund me what happened catch, a new internet connection, all right, we’ll talk to you tomorrow, night big ray
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