With 1 being the worst, I have it like this... 1. Whitaker vs Chavez 2. Pacquaio vs Bradley 3. Lewis vs Holyfield 1 4. Pacquiao vs Marquez 3 5. Rios vs Abril Paul Williams vs Erislandry Lara and De La Hoya vs Mosley 2 Also deserve mentions. Add more if you like...
I'd put DLH vs sturm over all of those. Even DLH nodded his head "no" in dissapointment when they announced the decision there.
Good call.. Sturm clearly was robbed in that fight. Ironic years later Matthew Macklin would get robbed badly in his fight with Sturm.
Tito vs Oscar, in that case "us" the fans were robbed of one of the great match-up in recent history that did not lived up to the hype....I blame both fighters.....
Also not as noticed because it wasn't such a big fight but Juarez vs Raheem was terrible. For starters Raheem had to fight both the ref and Juarez, at one point in the fight, the ref actually hits Raheem. Despite that he clearly outboxes juarez and still gets robbed.
Really that fight had all the ingredients to be one of the greatest fights of all time. Both fighters were HOF caliber, undefeated in their prime. Both had excellent chins but bad balance and excellenet power so you could have had a few knockdowns. Up until that fight they both had brawling styles. There is plenty of megafights that I am not at all surprised when they suck (mayweather vs DLH for example). But this one really was a letdown.
1-Rios-Abril 2-Williams-Lara 3-Whitaker-Chavez 4-Lewis Holyfield those are the only robberies i see.others were just close fights
Great synopsis of the fight. Huge disappointment. Fights like that seem to only really come along once every 10 years or so. I can't think of once since that had all the ingredients.
Whitaker was not a robbery. The man was a dead man walking. One more punch could have killed him. Plus it wasn't all one way traffic, Chavez was wearing him down big time. And also Steele is a ref not a time timekeeper. If there were twenty seconds left or two if you don't answer questions from a ref (respond) and you can't look him in the eye, you deserve to be stopped. How many times do we need to go over this?
1. Pacquaio vs Bradley 2.Whitaker vs Chavez 3. Lewis vs Holyfield 1 4.Rios vs Abril Ranking of the fights that were actually a robbery.