Sky Sports got their boxing season off to a great start last night with an early candidate for fight of the year. Jamie McDonnell successfully defended his European Bantamweight Title against tough Belgian Stephane Jamoye winning on a majority points decision.
Going around the major boxing forums i found that just about everybody had this fight very close with scores of 114-113 or 115-113 being scored for both fighters. One thing i noticed was that on the "worldwide" parts of forums and non British websites they seemed to all favor jamoye. British websites and forums disagreed and mostly thought that McDonnell had done enough to defend his title.
My scorecard read 115-112 to McDonnell , slightly wider than most although i think my scoring of the 12th round to McDonnell changed my card from being like many a 114-113 score. I though that the Belgian started the round well and won the first minute but McDonnell responded and for me won the final 2 minutes of the round. I also believe that the point deduction for McDonnell in the 11th (fully deserved after repeated warnings) made this fight a lot closer.
McDonnell vs Jamoye full fight - thanks to Frank Maloneys youtube website
http://www.youtube.com/maloneypromotions#p/a/u/2/YvwZBqMXiu4 rounds 1-4
http://www.youtube.com/maloneypromotions#p/a/u/1/mvTiZRsWXYk rounds 5-8
http://www.youtube.com/maloneypromotions#p/a/u/0/rl0h5DE4aBA rounds 9-12
Below is my Scorecard and the official judges scores. I have also added the Sky TV scores along with the average scores from the major boxing websites.
Round 1.....Jamoye 10-9
Round 2.....Jamoye 10-9
Round 3.....McDonnell 10-9
Round 4.....Jamoye 10-9
Round 5.....McDonnell 10-9
Round 6.....McDonnell 10-9
Round 7.....McDonnell 10-9
Round 8.....McDonnell 10-9
Round 10...McDonnell 10-9
Round 11...Jamoye 10-8
Round 12...McDonnell 10-9
TOTAL...115-112 Jamie McDonnell
Judges scores : Esa Lehtosaari 115-113 McDonnell
: Juergen Langos 114-113 McDonnell
: Christophe Fernandez 114-114 Draw
JAMIE MCDONNELL WINS BY MAJORITY DECISION
TV , Boxing sites and Fans scores
Sky TV - Jim Watt 115-114 McDonnell , Bob Mee 114-113 McDonnell , Spencer Oliver has McDonnell by 1 round as did Adam Smith
East side boxing - (general forum) the fans voted 5-2 in favor of Jamoye with most common scores of 114-113 or 115-113
East side boxing - (British forum) the fans voted 8-1-1 in favor to McDonnell with most common scores of 114-113 or 115-113
Boxingscenes Alexy Sukadev scored the fight 115-113 McDonnell
Boxrec - (British forum) the fans voted 5-0-1 in favor of McDonnell again with scores of 114-113 and 115-113
Ian McNeilly also of Boxrec had the fight 114-113 McDonnell
Livefight fans voted 2-1-1 in favor of McDonnell
Badlefthook - fans voted 2-0 to jamoye with scores of 114-113 and the widest i saw for Jamoye 115-112
Andrew Wake of Secondsout.com thought that McDonnel won but didn't give a score
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