Chris John: Traveling Champion

Chris John has a reputation for never fighting outside of Indonesia, for some reason. Lets please set that straight.

The location of Chris John's last 10 fights:

2012- Singapore
2012- Singapore
2011- Australia
2011- Indonesia
2010- Indonesia
2009- USA
2009- USA
2008- Japan
2008- Indonesia
2007- Japan

Yes. Only 3 of his last 10 fights have been in Indonesia.

On April 14th he defends his belt against Satashi Hosono in Indonesia. That will make it only his 4th fight in his home country in his last 11.

I swear Chris John is one of the most hated fighters alive, and for no good reason. Now you know better, so please refrain from comments about John holding the belt hostage in Indonesia and only ever fighting in his home country.

 

Agree with the above posts.

John vs. Piriyapino last year was a great fight... I've brought that up many times over the past couple months, really underrated in my eyes. Surprising to see both of them push each other and look so good.

 

Giving John only 3 rounds in that fight is an absolute joke which shows the most bias agenda from whoever feels that way.

 

Those are fair complaints one could debate.

However, the oft claim of him not fighting outside of his home country is not debatable. He travels as much as any other titlist (with the exception of those primarily based in another country; ie Klitschko's and Germany, Cubans and America).

 

I believe that John beat Marquez. I always scored it 6-6, with the two point deductions it became 114-112 every time. I recently re-watched it for the fourth time, and came up with a final tally of 115-111 for John... As for the deductions, the first was a little premature but not out of nowhere and JMM was landing below the belt multiple times after that first deduction, so that's his own fault for lack of IQ. When you get one deducted, you know you're on a tight leash for the next one. Instead he landed some hard low blows... In my eyes, he deserved to have one point deducted, so a 114-113 score is, in my ideal reffing/judging scenario, the correct score.

Calling it a robbery is simply ******ed.

This fight is damn near a case of hearsay. Most everybody hasn't watched it. They hear "robbery" and run with it.

 

Dude, one of the story lines in the fight to me was that Marquez didn't land more than a couple combinations. He'd land a hard lead shot that would rock John then John would use head and foot movement to make Marquez miss with every follow up. And the one of the other ones was that I felt John outworked JMM in regards to the body.

We literally saw two completely different fights.

Being that you even brought up ethnicity, I would question your agenda and stance on the matter.