Glen Johnson was robbed in Denmark

I counted 4 big robberies last weekend.
We can ad it up to all the December holidays. December 12 and 13 are now 1st and 2nd Robbery Day :good

 

Doesnt bode well for Skoglund for when he really steps up.

 

how can anyone be surprised if you have watched boxing for more than a few years

 

Yes he was.


Of his 20 career losses and two draws, I think Johnson maintains that over half were robberies, at least a dozen or so. That has IMO always been a reach (some of the ones he whined over were definitely not robberies) and just Glen throwing himself a pity-party, but the number in truth may well be up around the double-digit mark. :think


Let's delve...


TKO11 by Hopkins - obviously not a robbery :yep N/A
UD10 to Merqui Sosa - generally accepted as close-but-clear for Sosa, though Johnson diehards claim robbery. (available on Youtube)
SD10 to Joseph Kiwanuka - again, consensus is that Kiwanuka edging it was reasonable, but the 7-3 card wasn't (available on YouTube)
UD12 to Sven Ottke - close but wrong decision.
UD10 to Syd Vanderpool - clear loss, no controversy
UD12 to Silvio Branco - robbery
MD10 to Omar Sheika - robbery
UD10 to Derrick Harmon - clear loss, no controversy
MD10 to Julio Cesar Gonzalez - robbery
D10 with Daniel Judah (first meeting) - robbery
D12 with Clinton Woods (first meeting) - robbery
UD12 to Antonio Tarver in rematch - clear loss, no controversy
SD12 to Clinton Woods in rubber match - close but wrong decision.
UD12 to Chad Dawson (first meeting) - close but wrong decision IMO. Could go either way really.
UD12 to Chad Dawson in rematch - clear loss, no controversy
UD12 to Tavoris Cloud - close but wrong decision
MD12 to Carl Froch - close-but-clear for Froch.
UD12 to Lucian Bute - clear loss, no controversy
UD10 to Andrzej Fonfara - robbery
UD12 to George Groves - clear loss, no controversy
TKO9 to Ilunga Makabu - N/A
UD10 to Erik Skoglund - robbery


So, eleven. Exactly half of his 22 non-wins.

 

Never read Fonfara-Johnson was controversial.

 

I actually had it a draw on the night but couldn't see Fonfara getting any more rounds than I gave him, while a few close ones that I did give him could've gone Johnson's way.

On the night, in the RBR thread, everybody had it either scored for Johnson or a draw (seen as the worst case scenario for him) - but of course none of us were shocked when the 9-1 and 7-3 cards poured in for the house guy in Chicago. :-(

 

Ottke is just unbeatable, that's how it works.

If I'm correct, according to Johnson, he believed he was robbed against Bute.

 

Yes, but nobody else did. :yep

Bute clearly held back and carried Johnson because they're friends.

 

And yet Johnson went on to say that he thought he won somehow.

Johnson: I thought that I won the fight, I beat him to the punch. I hit him with a lot more punches that he hit me with. I basically beat him with one hand. :!:

Jim Gray: It was not even close.

 

Yeah, that was always Johnson's deal - he got so used to automatically crying foul whenever he lost a decision that he did so even when there was no call for indignation on his part whatsoever. It made him lose a lot of sympathy over the years from the fans (at least some of us) who otherwise regarded him as being a legitimate hard-luck case akin to Delvin Rodriguez or to a lesser extent Fres Oquendo and Emanuel Augustus (both guys who did in fact get screwed a few times but who started to believe their own myth of "always" getting a raw deal when really, ofttimes, they didn't and did actually deserve to lose due to coming on short notice, in poor shape, and/or just not working enough between the bells...)

He became the boy (or rather, old man) that cried wolf.

 

I seem to remember the second woods fight being very close but thought woods deserved the decision

 

'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark' :rofl

 

Nothing is being done about it so they'll keep robbing according to their own desires. Just take a look at the shameless robberies in England for pure comedy.