The Lewis dressing room after the Holyfield draw.

holyfield is a ***** ..anytime **** goes his way it's god this god that ...when he has a robbery go his way... oh well they're not the judges .. too bad i win ..

 

The female judge was a disgrace,but what I could not understand was Larry O Connells scorecard,he is straight ,I have sat next to him at several promotions in London,,and he only lives about 20 mins from me the man is not crooked ,but boy did he have a bad night!

 

That's great footage right there. In fact, that entire documentary - Lennox Lewis - Undisputed, is one of the best i've seen. At 5:28 there's a funny part where you can hear Steward cuss; his true persona, not that HBO character that you're used to seeing. He had every right to be pissed off though.

 

After i watched this fight i lost a piece of my youth and realized the true meaning of corruption.

 

"good fight my ****ing ass"

 

I dont know if I would be this upset over the decision if I were Lewis. With the ease that Lewis beat Holyfield I would go with the flow Its amazing but Don King was able to spin it into enough contraversy, and although the fight was a one sided win for Lewis in my opinion, it still justified a rematch for blatant poor scoring. This probably put an additional 15 million in Lewis and Kings pocket.

 

Are you kidding me? You do realize that you have to go through another hard training camp of two months, doing the same things all over again, risk getting screwed by the judges in the rematch or be caught by a lucky shot, not to mention....not being able to call yourself undisputed heavyweight champ when you clearly are?

 

I dont think there was a person on the planet who believed Lewis lost, including Holyfield. Whats the difference, Lewis most likely would have had to defend his title against some no name Don King fighter or a washed up Tony Tucker again where the very same things could have happened like you mentioned, or fight Holyfield for another record grossing payday. Besides the fight wasnt too tough for Lewis. To me, I wouldn't be that upset, but thats me..

 

The scary thing is that the judjes wernt trying to produce a draw they were trying to produce a Holyfield win. It was only by an accident of the arithmatic that it ended up as a draw.

Just imagine if they had not made that miscalculation and Holyfield had edged it on the scorecards.

Then what?

 

Well, how come this exorbitant powerful, unbeatable worshiped beyond believe ESB god Lewis did not take matters in his own hands and simply knock Holyfield the F out ? That "inferior" fighter with no defense or the ability to deal with a jab according to the ESB experts Bowe, did it once convincingly and almost had him out in the first outing while Holy had significantly more left in the tank ?

LOL, that would have meant taking a risk and shaky wiskers and risk don't go hand in hand............so instead we were forced to watch 24 rounds of synchronzed swimming followed by another barnbuster full of action, to a theater coming next to you, the mightymight Tua slowdance..

 

Bowe's perforances against Holyfield are underrated in my opinion, when you look at the Lewis fights years later.

 

I've met Larry O'Connel myself at a few boxing functions. One of whoch was the "Henry Cooper golf classic" at Muswell Hill. I think it was either Johnny Pritchett or John Conteh that was Mc for the day. It was not long after the fight and it was mentioned by one of the aforementioned. Everyone had a laugh at Larry's expense. He took it on the chin.
I think he scored it how he saw it.
What I've been wondering is if the judges keep an unnoficial scorecard for these big fights or just hand in the scorecards at the end of each round and forget about it. Is there a protocol? I can easy see a case for an official being influenced towards the home/champ/favoured fighter when it comes down to the last rounds if he knows how his scorecard is going.
Any judges on the forum?

 

In my mind, this simply made the belts void.

Not in actual practice of course, but in terms of prestige.