People exaggerate how bad the Holyfield VS Lewis Decision was

Point well taken but I stand behind my opinion still.

 

You must always change your opinion when you learn new things.

 

Hmmm, Holyfield gave Bowe a good fight just before the stoppage. It could have easily went the other way before the knockout. Silly tactics implemented by Holyfield in that 3rd fight. One must remember that Holyfield was really the first person to really seriously floor Bowe...

 

But compubox is also horribly inaccurate and biased many times, its just 2 guys pushing the buttons. Do you really believe calzaghe landed 250 clean punches on Hopkins?

So Its not only that sore statistic doesnt tell us everything about the fight its also the fact that these statistics are often false and inaccurate so i for example cant take em seriously.

 

Compubox means very little and is often inaccurate, but that's irrelevant here. Lewis won by a wide margin IMO and was robbed.

 

How many rounds should Lewis have won for you to call it a terrible decision, 12?

 

Seriously now, I really can't grasp how people do that, seeing their favourite fighter/team lose handily, and still think he/they won. Personally, I'm even more strict when it comes to a fighter or a team I root for.

 

So which one were you on again?

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Lewis was jobbed, BUT it wasn't as bad as people make out. I've seen far worse.
I mean, he got a "DRAW" instead of the win he deserved, but he didn't get a LOSS.

 

The most disgusting robbery in a pro fight was Coggi-Gonzalez 1, but this was pretty bad. Sure Lewis didn't lose the fight officially, but I had him winning this one by a wide margin so it was really ridiculous regardless.

 

The fight was not close. Not at all. Lewis fought on the outside with his jab, and refused to allow Holy to make it a brawl on the inside.

Lewis was not aggressive enough to look spectacular, but he WAS aggressive enough to win the fight by a WIDE margin. There is no way in hell that Holy won or drew that fight, you cannot even argue it unless you're a Holy nutswinger. There is NOTHING that Holy did that wins him the fight, except walking forward. Which means absolutely nothing if you are completely ineffective and getting outlanded almost 3 to 1 over 12 rounds, as Holy was.

It is probably the worst robbery ever as it was for the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world, one of the two or three highest-profile fights of the 1990s, and it is made worse by being a European fighter coming to America and getting ****ed by crooked judges in front of the entire world.

The fact that some people STILL try to defend it is frankly laughable.

:hat

 

Lewis was pretty effective with the uppercut too in the rematch.

 

I was rooting for Holyfield in the first fight and it left a bad taste in my mouth. Interestingly in the rematch I was rooting for Lewis because of what happened in the first fight and I felt that Holyfield should have taken it or a draw would be ok.

 

I felt the same way, after watching the second fight again tonight I felt like Lewis didn't do enough to take away his belts by far. You take a guy like Holyfield, and send him up against a bigger and stronger and superior boxer and he ends up hurting him bad a couple times and never once himself got into trouble. Just counting jabs doesn't tell the story of a fight, when you want to unify a title you need to go out there are fight... don't try to basically cheat and win by pecking the guy to death with jabs while avoiding exchanging REAL punches. Lewis tried out fighting Holoyfields way.. until he saw that way would put him on the canvas or get him bruised up and battered. Looking at their faces at the end of the second fight Holyfield deserved the win... looking at their faces on the first fight neither of em deserved to win.

When Evander tried to do this against Valuev they didn't give it to him either, I guess people want to see him fight wars not box lol. But seriously Evander took so much abuse in the ring, he gave as good as he got but what he gave was spread out and he collected from boxings very best.. I hope he doesn't suffer later in life from all those big shots he ate.

 

Why was this thread dug up from 7 years ago?