I like the following quote regarding the card you wrote about William Nack called Polatti's scorecard "a monument to indecision."
The card that had Tyson ahead when Douglas knocked him out. And one of the cards in Wilder-Fury 1 had Wilder by 4 pts! Then there's also the draw on one card in Floyd-Canelo and the card that had him over GGG in their first was also very bad. Similar to the wide card in Leonard's favour against Hagler.
Harold Valan of Patterson-Ellis fame was also allowed to be sole arbiter whenever he was in New Jersey. In '73 he reffed Ernie Terrell v Chuck Wepner and scored the bout 7-5 for Wepner. Now, admittedly, I never saw the bout, but all media outlets screamed robbery. Indeed, Ring mag scored it 9-3 Terrell. Just think what that one momentous lousy decision caused. Terrell was rated, which broke Wepner into the #10 rating of Ring Mag. His management steered him safely through a nest of ordinary opposition retaining that #10 ranking. His one bout against a decent fighter was Randy Neumann, who was winning the bout, until stopped - ironically - on a cut win for Wepner. By this time, Ali had regained the title and was looking for a soft 1st title defense and lighted on Wepner. A top-dog against a no-hoper. And who is in the audience but a young Sylvester Stallone who gets the idea for that 100-1 shot. Thus, Rocky is born and all his sequels. And to think, it all started due to Harold Valan's bad decision.
The 119-110 card in the first Williams vs Martinez fight. I don’t think I’ve seen that one mentioned here yet.
She even gave the 5th round to Evander, which was the most one sided round of all of the 24 they fought. Holyfield was on the ropes getting beaten and the ref warned him to throw something or else he might stop it. Her excuse was something like “oh I couldn’t really see the action from my angle”. Although everyone else in the arena and on TV could see that Lewis won that round easily.
Came here to mention this. In a one-point either way type fight that was absurd. Eugenia Williams’ Holyfield over Lewis was appalling as was Adelaide Byrd(brains) 118-110 for Canelo over GGG. The 118-110 in Leonard-Hagler was farcical top of course.
I've never seen a convincing argument for Wilfredo Gomez beating Rocky Lockridge. It doesn't make them the worst scorecards ever but they were pretty blatantly biased.
Tyson Fury v John McDermott in 2009 where referee Terry McDermott scored the fight 98-92 in favour of Fury when it should have been clearly the other way round. Pundits, promoters and all boxing fans were stunned when the result was announced.
Larry Layton and Calvin Claxton having Briggs beating Foreman 117-113, 116-112 The third judge, Steve Weisfeld's score of 114-114 was saner, but still pretty bad
Billy Hardy was on the wrong end of a 2-0-10 (118-120 by Walter Schall) scorecard in his bout with Belcastro. Four months later in another Euro title fight he scored Rocchigiani/Lefeber 119-118. And generally, looking at his record, they seem influenced by home fighters: https://boxrec.com/en/judge/404747
For what it's worth, the AP writeup of the fight reported the 100-76 score at the time (by judge Jack Durham).
I don't have a problem with the judges who score lots of even rounds. I never understood the argument that it's wrong to score rounds even, that somehow it's better to force yourself into making a choice, even when the round was evenly contested.
