By Chris Williams: Two of boxing’s greatest minds, WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward and trainer Virgil Hunter, both saw the Floyd Mayweather Jr. – Marcos Maidana fight last Saturday night, and they saw absolutely nothing controversial about the judges giving Mayweather Jr. the 12 round decision victory. If anything, they felt that it should have been a unanimous decision instead of a majority decision.
To Ward and Hunter, it was a clear cut 8 rounds to 4 victory for Mayweather in the fight. Like everyone, they saw Maidana throwing a lot of punches, but they also observed that he was missing all night long instead of landing with those punches. You’re not supposed to win rounds based on missed shots, as the name of the game is to score punches that land. Maidana simply wasn’t landing with the punches he was throwing, they felt.