Fights You Feel Are Fixed or Fighter Took a Dive

Wilder vs Scott I believe was a prearranged dive job

 

Would have lost on the scorecards. Maybe there was money on a KO.

 

Mickey Rourkes last fight in Russia looked a little odd😉

 

Burger Squad vs.... Nichols and Scott for sure

 

Was Oscar ****ting his pants fake too?

 

No doubt. But I don't think Wilder knew about it. When a dive is setup its best if the other fighter doesn't know about it.

 

Wilder-Scott was definetly fixed and Scott did a terrible acting job.

 

Wlad Purrity

 

Danny Green v Stipe Drews

 

Malik Scot vs Deontay Wilder. These guys are best friends outside the ring. Obvious dive.

 

Wilder was in on it for sure.

 

:rofl

I keep saying that this fight was scripted like a WWE show since it happened..it wasn't even subtile. As soon as I saw this, everyone in my living room understood was just happened and were ****ed that have paid for this ****.

 

I'm certain there's many more, but here's a few interesting ones I haven't seen brought up and have an interesting back story. Tyson-McNeeley, Valuev-Holyfield, Lebedev-Jones, and Kotelnik-Alexander.

Tyson-McNeeley was allegedly a fix, and I buy it. Not for the winner, but for the time to end before the halfway point of the first round. There's a pretty good article about a fight fixer who brings up this fight specifically. The 1:29 DQ call isn't an accident, but a calculated move to get the fight ended in time.

Occasionally, faded "name" fighters are paid to show up and lose with the implied compensation being a good payday and the other guy not going too hard, either. Valuev-Holyfield had all the earmarks of a gentlemen's agreement where Evander got paid to show up and lose on points, and Valuev wouldn't try too hard. Valuev did his job too well and so many call it a robbery today, but I don't buy that the fight was ever on the level. There was nowhere near the urgency or frustration out of either party to justify that there was a title on the line.

If you want an example of one of these gone wrong, look no further than Roy vs Lebedev. Roy was supposed to give the Russian crowd a show, last, and lose on points, and Levedev was supposed to do a bit, but not really go to hurt him. Lebedev was prepared for this to be the case and fought sluggishly until Roy broke script and rocked him in the 9th. The rest is history, with Roy getting a scary knockout for his troubles.

Kotelnik-Alexander was another case of a script flip gone wrong. Kotelnik was supposed to give a game effort, but the bout was supposed to be a home town showcase for Alexander with the big-money Bradley fight already agreed to. Kotelnik didn't follow orders, did too much himself and showed too much weakness in Alexander, and King blackballed him for it. He was forced to move up to Welterweight to eliminate any talks of a rematch, but the switch was just for show- King literally just kept him on ice instead, so many American fans' first exposure to him was also his last.

 

McNeeley wasn't making it out of the first half of round one before the corner jumped in,regardless. He was out on his feet and would have been k.od the next landing punch and into la la land.

 

Absolutely- he was never meant to last long.

Vin Vecchione was a fixer, and also the man who stepped through before the fight could pass the halfway point of the first round. He made it at 1:29.

http://deadspin.com/why-i-fixed-fights-1535114232/all

Here's background on Vin, and the McNeeley fight.