I half-heartedly watched the HBO boxing telecast Saturday night and am perplexed by all the post fight buzz the Paulie-Diaz match is getting. Perhaps I should clarify: by "half-heartedly" means i was losing on Pokerstars while watching. Was it really that bad of a decision? I personally don't care if I ever see PM again due to his extraordinary lack of "pop" in his punch. During the broadcast I received a text from my brother: "Juan Diaz is f****** garbage." This was followed by "This **** is gay (sic) boxing is gay." I happened to be watching the bout a bit time delayed and was barely at the 7th round by the time I received these. I responded back and asked him what happened. He said for me to just watch and see what happens. Once the decision was read the first thing I wondered was "Whats so shocking about that?" :smoke I've watched boxing for the better part of a decade and was grudgingly used to absurd decisions and blatant robberies. This was nothing new to me on any level. Am I, or was I happy about this? F*** no... I love boxing. Passionately. Anyways I rambling. Ultimately the reason I am here is to ask you all a question. How hard is it to "fix" a fight honestly? I mean couldn't somebody have said "Hey Gale, give the fight to the Bull... but make it close. Don't wanna raise any eyebrows ya know what I'm saying..." Wink, wink, case closed. Or something to that effect. I mean these are multi-billion and million dollar entities were talking about here. Anybody know who HBO's parent company is? Exactly. Not saying they are directly involved, but one would think that the mastermind behind these sorts of incidents would be a little more efficient in his craft. I mean, why so obvious? Any thoughts on this subject would be greatly appreciated. It makes me wonder if people are intentionally trying to sabotage the sport. You think Dana got to Van Hoye? Caiz? Why did KP agree to fight PW only to pull out coincidentally close to the official announcement? With staph infection? Really? You didn't have that **** a week or so before when you agreed to fight? N**** please. Anyways, I've rambled and vented enough.
I have a feeling Van de la Hoye got wind of Malignaggi's comments on his judging and his reaction was "I'll show you biased judging you Yankie ******"
what makes this situation worse, is all the past week paulie said texas was known for bull**** like this.....and turns out he was right.... and the 118-110 score was mainly i think personal animosity against paulie's comments in the middle of the week..... and the ring was the size of a 1940's coffee table and paulie by most observers gave diaz a boxing lesson.... that is why there is so much controversy IMO
It was a close fight. It's the fact that Paulie didn't get a fair shake is the reason it pissed me off. The guy could've legitimately won that fight 9-3 or 10-2 and still come off with a draw or lost a split decision by the looks of the judging. I hear what your saying about the fixing part though. If you're gonna rob someone why not do it 115-113 and save yourself the attention an outrageous score-card attracts. Raul Caiz style!
Paulie has pulled off the same kind of **** against his opponents in the past. He gets no sympathy for me. Although from a sport perspective it does **** me off
this is the other thing people are failing to mention was the big discrepancies between raul caiz and gale van hoy.....the 2 judges paulie mentioned earlier in the week..... one ruled it close and the other ruled it wide.......to me this says they were slapping paulie in the face, but instead it backfired on them big time....that **** was planned....
First off, I'd think that boxing wouldn't announce judges for a particular fight. If on a given night that 4 or more fights are going off they need a bunch of judges. They should send a few extra judges and only tell them 10 minutes prior to the fights which ones they are judging. That way no one could potentially get to a judge. At least it would make it harder. While, I don't believe that more then a handful of judges are corrupt so these steps probably aren't necessary but it would eliminated that doubt for many people. I doubt Dana White or anyone else would bother. Boxing is destroying itself quite well all by itself.
Paulie had nothing to lose by saying the judges would go against him. It was a win win situation for him. Yes, sorry to tell you but obviously Diaz got to choose the ring size, if Malignaggi didn't like it he didn't have to take the fight. Many people think Diaz one. Again CompuBox had Malignaggi landing 14 more punches 43 less power shots while throwing 300 more punches. People that claim that Malignaggi won easily a deluded.
actually few people have diaz winning that fight.....most accounts paulie won......and diaz face tell the story.....a jab counts the same as a "diaz power shot".....sorry to break it to you...i had it 116-112 paulie, close o nthe cards but in reality it wasnt a close fight....and the few observers scoring for diaz are awarding his agression and so called "effective" punching when in fact the malignaggi jab was the cleanest and effective punch of the fight, diaz face tells that story their, anlong with out throwing diaz by 300, he was the busier of the 2 fighters....you have to be mexican, living in houston, or blind to say honestly diaz won that fight...
His face, what the nasty cut from one of 12 to 15 elbows malignaggi threw? Watch a bunch of the middle rounds that people gave to Malignaggi, He didn't even open the cut back up and any punch would have opened that cut up. Like it was in the 10th and 11th rounds. Which I scored for Malignaggi.
the first cut was caused by a malignaggi uppercut....and hbo replay confirmed it, and you could tell something was up, when the ref, laurence loser cole turned at asked the judges if it was a punch or a headbutt....and lederman and kellerman both said that's a no-no, the ref is not supposed to ask the judges that.....right there should tell you something was up
Diaz did look terrible; guy totally falls apart when cut. I love the idea about having judges find out which fight on fight night. Beautiful. You got 4 fights? Lets have 12 judges show up, draw from a hat which fight they are getting. This portion could even be televised for cryin out loud!! The truly sad part is that in all the greed and corruption, the fools failed to realize that if they went legit they would literally make money hand over fist. Who wouldn't want to watch the world's best compete on a continuous basis.
I respect the fact that Malignaggi spoke his mind. Who isn't sick of getting ripped off from the system. He won the fight. He deserves the decision. End of conversation. What made it worse was he called it before hand. HBO aired that then they should have backed him up when the ripoff went down. ODH, Bernard, and Shane are fighters, they shouldn't just be the same scumbags that have robbed fighters since the beginning. HBO should put their foot down, without them the promoters are screwed. Diaz is done. Paulie put on a nice boxing exhibition.
