What do you guys think? Some of my notables: Holyfield vs. Lewis 1 Foreman vs. Briggs Ali vs. Norton 2 Marciano vs. Charles 1 Marciano vs. LaStarza 1 Leonard vs. Hagler Holmes vs. Sphinx 2 Holyfield vs. Valuev Joe Louis vs. Walcott 1 Did I miss any big ones?
You missed the one that saw one guy pitching a near shutout in a WBC title fight, only to have it scored a 12-0 shutout against him on a judge's card. :!:
Christian Mijares? I remember the commentators assumed the announcer mixed the cards up because the couldn't comprehend how you could possibly have Mijares losing
Yeah...it was Mijares vs. Navarro, and Doug Tucker's scorecard. Worst individual card of all time. Literally couldn't be any wronger. Twelve-zip to Navarro is an impossible score in that fight, and you'd be climbing uphill arguing for even a round for Navarro.
Not true at all. Marciano was a gentleman and a helluva pugilist who hit like a freight train. There is just no denying he beat a lot of past their prime fighters and did have a couple of controversial decisions. His prime came in a somewhat weak stretch in boxing history, but that wasn't his fault and he has nothing to do with my disliking him, its just the truth. I just don't say he'd definitively beat fighters of the caliber he didn't beat.
Holyfield/Lewis 1 and De La Hoya/Trinidad are the most obvious ones for me, it's a struggle to give Evander or Tito more than 3 rounds in those fights, clear robberies on the biggest stage. Another one is Reid/Ottke. While in reality the fight was close, it was only close because of the refereeing of the clearly corrupt Roger Tillman. Ignored a geuine knockdown in favour of Reid, deducted a point for a non existent headbutt, warning Reid for hitting Ottke and basically doing everything short of attacking Reid himself to ensure Ottke won.