Sweet Pea vs Chavez

Whitaker clearly won that fight but Don King and his judges didnt let his cash cow lose his 0.

 

Sound or no sound it was obvious Whitaker won. I had Chavez winning two rounds. Absolute robbery.

 

Same reason why Holy drew with Lennox Lewis. DON KING

 

I don't think Whitaker walked over Chavez, but he definitely won the fight. This Chavez winding down facing Whitaker who was peaking. It was a terrific performance by Sweet Pea. Amazing.

 

I have not scored the fight since around the time it happened. I watched in on ppv, and scored it that night. I taped the fight, watched it numerous times, and scored it later. I basically had the same score card watching it live, and while watching it later.

I gave Chavez rounds 1,2,5, and 9. The rest were Whitaker's by a 10-9 margin.

 

From the standpoint of an 8-4 scoring for Pea, a couple of the close rounds (they did transpire) could conceivably have been given to Chávez, thus producing a 6-6 draw.

Mr. Marvel has said it well: a victory, but no cakewalk for Pea by any means.

But Pea won that night. Period.

 

Agreed.

I don't agree with those who score it 10-2 or 9-3 for Pea; I had it more like 8-4 or 7-4-1. Chavez was definitely lucky to get the draw, but I've seen even worse decisions than that (unfortunately).

 

What's funny is that the Chavez fight is not even the worst robbery of Whitaker's career, the first Jose Ramirez fight is because they gave the fight to Ramirez. I guess fans don't bring that up as often because a rematch was made and Whitaker won the fight clearly again.

 

Masterclass from Whitaker (considering the opposition), hard to give Julio any more than 4 rds TBH. Bad decision.

Rds 3, 7 & 8 were like man v boy in Pea`s favour, lots of close rds tho but the fact JCC never won a single rd in a clear fashion tells the story of the fight.

Ps. Im a big fan of both so Im definitely not being biased.

:good

 

Whitaker was nowhere near peaking. He peaked three years earlier against Nelson. He was at his peak as a welterweight but was past his prime as a fighter overall.

His best days were at lightweight.

 

116:112 Whitaker

 

Unique perspective. But okay.

I think most people recognize that he was still a bit green at lightweight. His physical powers and experience converged in his welterweight career.

 

I am agnostic on this fight. I thought Whitaker won that fight, but he ran too much and really stunk up the place.

With Chavez, he outfoxed his opponent without running.

I don't know where people got this idea that boxing was running.