The ridiculous cries of robbery

It was too close of a fight to be called a robbery ..A draw was a fair decision ..

 

People are stupid in general but when it comes to boxing everything is magnified 1000x's. People just love screaming bloody murder if things don't go exactly the way they think it should have gone.

 

atsch It was still a Robbery. In my eyes it was 115 - 112 for Hopkins. The man is 45 years old. Jean Pascal is only 28. Hopkins won that fight and should be given credit for being the oldest boxer to win a major title.
Its the same as being in school. You have a test. You get three more points then your classmate but he gets a 4 and you get a 3 cos the teacher doesn't like you as much. :tired

 

Exactly people seem to conveniently forget the two knock downs!!! it's unreal!!! The way these folk would have you believe is that Hopkins won everything from start to finish. I was totally unsure that Pascal had done enough to get the win, and I did feel Hopkins may get it, but knowing that there had been two KDs by Pascal, meant it was always gonna be close on the cards unless Hopkins scored a KD of his own, which he didn't.

No robbery here folks. If you you wanna see a robbery, go watch Huck V Lebedev.

 

This is professional boxing not a old people's charity. What is his age got to do with the scoring of the fight? people keep bringing that up, yes Hopkins fought a hell of a fight for a 45 year old. Should we give him the win because of that? HELL NO.

 

I agree, after two knockdowns, the mathematics are no longer in your favor. A draw is a far decision under the 10 point must system. I know people are disappointed Hokpkins didn't set the record, but the decision was far from a robbery.

 

Christ since when did age matter when scoring in boxing. If that was the case Barrera v Khan would have been stopped by cut due to Khan being a young thug.

 

You are off in your calculations here. That would mean that if he won 2 of the next 10, he had 4 rounds overall with two knockdowns and Hopkins had 8 rounds. So that would be 116-112, minus 2 extra points for knockdowns and it would be 114-112 Hopkins still. He needed 3 for the draw and 4 to win.

 

Hopkins got robbed.

 

with is so difficult to understand about it b-hop won 8 rounds he won the fight simple, it isnt a big robbery but almost everyone has him a clear winner and a few have it a draw.

 

this is also exactly what happened by the way

 

Pascal DID win 2 out of 10 rounds!
Making it 114-112 HOPKINS!

he would have to win 3 out of the other 10 for a draw.
no way in hell did he win 3

 

I haven't seen the replay but should Hopkins have scored a knockdown late on in the fight.

 

I thought it was close too - I guess everyone did - and I wouldn't have been to surprised with a decision either way.

Watching at home, I get somewhat influenced by the crowd and I figure others are too, but I hope the judges aren't as much.

I don't have a problem with fighters genuinely feeling like they won a fight that was very close.