"Bad" Decisions You Actually Agreed With?

Muhammad Ali vs Ken Norton III
Devin Haney vs Wasyl Lomachenko
Josh Taylor vs Jack Caterall
Roy Jones Jr vs Antonio Tarver I
Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Jose Luis Castillo I
Chris Byrd vs Andrew Golota
John Ruiz vs Andrew Golota

Not that these fights weren't close, I just see them going either way, so could have gone to the guys who won on the scorecards.

 

I had Ali by one point here.

Also i agreed with Leonard-Hagler and with Camacho-Rosario but some people see those as unfair decisions.

 

Morales vs MAB 1

 

This too.

 

Not thinking its's a robbery isn't the same as agreeing with it

 

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I agree with both decisions in Canelo-GGG 1 and 2.

 

I agreed with the decision in the 3rd fight between Estrada and Gonzales, i know a lot of people didn`t

 

I agreed with Benitez-Curry I. But that was because of the scoring system used at the time, which was NY's round scoring system. With that system I had it 5-4-1 for Benitez. However, if I was employing the 10-point must used today, I would have had it 95-93 for Curry.

 

Ali Jimmy Young,,at the time I was an Ali fan and thought Young sticking his head out of the ropes was enough to take it from him so I agreed with the decision . Through the years I realized Young actually beat him.

 

Not to mention, both fighters were marked up after this fight in which challenger Marvelous Marvin Hagler had boasted what he was going to do to Vito The Mosquito, the defending World Middleweight Champion on Nov 30 1979, but Hagler could not destroy the strong willed brave champion Mosquito.

 

Same here, Muhammad Ali was my hero but I do not make excuses for anyone, Ali was clearly beaten by Jimmy Young that evening of April 30 1976. Even Howard Cosell interrupted regular television programming that night to bring in the challenger Jimmy Young.

 

Witherspoon-Holmes. Routinely described as a highway job, but while I accept it was close and wouldn't take any umbrage with anyone who had it narrowly for 'Spoon, I've always scored this one to Holmes by a round or two.

Winky-Taylor. Admittedly I've only scored this fight once since first seeing in back in 2006, but both times I remember thinking that a draw wasn't particularly controversial or unfair on Winky at all. Seems I'm in the minority as a lot of people describe that as a poor verdict.

Ward-Kovalev I. Maybe this speaks to the vagaries of the ten-point-must system and the issues it can cause, but at the time I didn't think Ward nicking a very tight one was any disgrace, and I didn't upon a second viewing / scoring either. Kovalev probably won his rounds clearer in general, obviously boosted by a 10-8, but it's not ridiculous to suggest that Ward might have won seven of them himself. Round ten aside, Kovalev barely landed a half-decent punch in the second half of the fight. Debatable rather than the robbery many have it down as, for me.

Gomez-Lockridge. Of a similar ilk to Ward-Kovalev I in the sense that, while one man won his rounds a clearer, generally speaking, he maybe didn't quite win as many as the other did manfully. Obviously I wouldn't argue with anyone having Lockridge winning this, but there's a reason Duva was telling him in the corner after the 13th: "Rocky there are two rounds to go, and you're giving your title away." I know he blamed the heat, but he let Gomez off the hook badly and just gave those last five rounds away, after looking like he was gonna get Gomez out of there in the middle rounds. Regardless of how you scored it precisely, Lockridge threw this one away.

 

John Ruiz beat Andrew Golota. No question about it even with the knockdowns IMO.............on top of that Ruiz fought better without Norman Stone in his corner.