It has to with its being a racial insult. Anyway, Taylor was HBOs latest "up and comer" and neither Hopkins or Wright has ever been particularly popular with the boxing establishment. The injustice done to Hopkins in the first fight is particularly glaring, and it is pretty clear that the boxing powers that be wanted to get rid of him. Taylor just isn't that good. He can't seem to beat ANYONE concincingly. Even guys coming up from lighter weights. Pavlik is really gonna expose WHY this guy has had to get decisions handed to him to "win" fights.:yep
I'm gonna go ahead and say you don't know what you're talking about. I was rooting big time for Nard. However, Hopkins barley threw any punches in the first half of the fight. He came on strong at the end, however his slow start cost him the fight. There was no robbery, I have no Idea why people keep saying this
Get 'em cleaned pal. Linton won that fight clear as day and here's the scores 92-97, 91-98, 91-98 all for Green. The judges made sure there would be no old vet upsetting a younger undefeated prospect on their watch. = Gift
Have we not learned time and time again that there is always 1 judge with a wild score card. PLEASE tell me how in the world Hopkins won 8 rounds in either fight.
I'm with you man, the people who say Hopkins are robbed are insane. They probably only watched the last 3 rounds of both fights atsch How you can call them GIFT decisions is beyond me!! All of Taylor's fights has been close, and he hasn't won convingly, but there is a huge difference between a gift decision and a fight which could of gone either way, as someone has already stated previously in this thread.
No he didn't. If Oscar deserved to win the Ike fight, it was because of the 12th, and even then, it's giving him the benefit of the doubt. That was one of the easiest of the controversial DLH fights to score.
Are you ever going to provide actual evidence for these claims? Just saying it doesn't make it true. I guess Hopkins and Winky weren't that good either since those fights were all very close even if you had Taylor losing all of them. Strange considering most people had them in the top 3 P4P when Taylor fought them.
A very close fight and difficult to score. No gift, the only problem I had was that the judges had Oscar so far ahead, one having it 9-3. I would think you're talking about the rematch. Yeah, Chavez got a gift. Both were close fights, especially the Hatton-Collazo fight.
No the biggest myth would be that you have even seen the fight. Sweet Pea SCHOOOOOOOOLLED Chavez. The fight was not close. I would LOVE to hear how this wasnt a robbery?
Sweet Pea vs Jose Luis Ramirez 1 Pathetic scoring Sweet Pea vs Chavez (hearing the scores read out still makes me sick) Lewis - Holyfield 1 Oscar vs Trinidad i had it 8-4 (When the annoucers read the score cards i pointed at the tv and gave Oscar a Nelson HA - Ha laugh).
Fights i've saw, and robberies only: Forbes-Hopkins Lewis-Holyfield 1 Byrd-Oquendo Tarver-Johnson 1 Burton-Augustus 1 Tua-Rahman 2