movingtarget said:Sounded like a good fight. Geale's first fight in the US and it sounds like he will get more opportunities as the promoter was happy with both fighters. Geale said he thought it was close and two of the judges scored it that way. Maybe Geale was more disappointed with his own performance than the result.
Oh, it was fantastic. In the 6th round, Geale hit Barker hard in the liver and Barker dropped hard. He barely made it up for the count, and for the next minute was getting pounded and it looked like they should stop the fight...and then he hit Geale with a couple of good shots, and then a couple more, and at one point looked like he would knock Geale out. From the 7th on, Barker was just a monster. I know one of the judges gave the fight to Geale, but he wasn't watching the same fight as anyone else.