Rank these robberies in boxing history..

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  1. jso416

    jso416 F U Nutthuggers!!! Full Member

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    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...
     
  2. thewoo

    thewoo Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I'd put DLH vs sturm over all of those. Even DLH nodded his head "no" in dissapointment when they announced the decision there.
     
  3. jso416

    jso416 F U Nutthuggers!!! Full Member

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    Good call.. Sturm clearly was robbed in that fight. Ironic years later Matthew Macklin would get robbed badly in his fight with Sturm.
     
  4. papolamuerte

    papolamuerte Yo soy La Muerte! Full Member

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    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.....
     
  5. thewoo

    thewoo Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    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.
     
  6. Kid Cubano

    Kid Cubano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    even if i believe JMM won the 3rd fight against Pac, it wasn't exactly the worse robbery.
     
  7. thewoo

    thewoo Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    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.
     
  8. larryx2012

    larryx2012 I AM BETTER THEN YOU Full Member

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    1-Rios-Abril
    2-Williams-Lara
    3-Whitaker-Chavez
    4-Lewis Holyfield

    those are the only robberies i see.others were just close fights
     
  9. dcb154

    dcb154 Member Full Member

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    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.
     
  10. Jimi

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    1. Robin Reid v Sven Ottke

    Staggeringly bad.
     
  11. duranimal

    duranimal Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Corruption at it's finest:deal

    I wish Robin had just decked that fart of a bent ref:D
     
  12. zicas

    zicas Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Pac-JMM 3 wasn't a robbery ya jeyk it was a close fight
     
  13. ianwigley

    ianwigley Guest

    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?
     
  14. Boom_Boom

    Boom_Boom R.I.P Boxing 6/9/12 Full Member

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    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.
     
  15. Chops

    Chops New Member Full Member

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    None in this thread... You're thinking of Meldrick Taylor