Top 5 Worst Robberies? (In order of significance)

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  1. Bavarian

    Bavarian New Member Full Member

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    Pacquiao Bradley I deserves to be mentioned but it lacks significance for top 5…
     
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  2. Turnip mk3

    Turnip mk3 Active Member Full Member

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    Pick any Sven Oakcake fight .
     
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  3. HDmexiqtioner

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    Going through some fun rewatches at some "Robberies" that are mentioned. Interesting stuff. Any others yall would say is the biggest?
     
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  4. Tonto62

    Tonto62 Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    How did Hearn manage to do that?
     
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  5. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    HD, if you're checking them out, check out the first fight between Curtis Parker and Mustafa Hamsho (I had it 6-2-2 for Parker) and the 10 rounder between Dwight Qawi and Ossie Ocasio (I had it 6-3-1 for Qawi). In both fights the decision went to whom I deemed lost. They were disgraceful.
     
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  6. HDmexiqtioner

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    Yeah, I am going to do a watch and basically dissect if it was a "robbery" imo and what the impact was. Keeping my own score and such.
    Basically I will rank from 0-5 in regards to robbery. Like 0 is like naw, fair score/decision, and 5 is like "this made a part of boxing die a bit" (hyperbolic, but there are some decisions like that tbh)

     
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  7. Cobra33

    Cobra33 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Great list and I always thought Spinks never beat Holmes. I am actually surprised nobody mentions Lewis vs Holy 2 as I didn't think either man won that one.
     
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  8. OP_TheJawBreaker

    OP_TheJawBreaker NOBODY hit like that guy! Full Member

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    Dave Tiberi vs James Toney comes to mind
     
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  9. johnmaff36

    johnmaff36 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    i dont think some folk have read the title of the thread. It says ROBBERIES not 'close fights where you think the other guy won'. Theres a world of difference
     
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  10. Boxing2019

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    I get It as perfect draw. However if Holy had won, he wouldnt have robbed nothing ti none.
     
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  11. Blaxx

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    Sweet Pea MD Chavez
    This is the worst for me - it's the top two P4P boxers in the world at the time and one of the biggest fights that could be made post Fab 4. Pernell schooled him bad and I've never managed to score more than 3 rounds for Chavez (usually two).
    In most of the other robberies I feel the benefitting fighter had moments here and there but Pernell didn't allow Chavez even his patented body work, school was in session from around Rd 3 right to the end.
     
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  12. michael mullen

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  13. HDmexiqtioner

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    Thanks for the submissions everyone, this is the list that I have thus far (In parenthesis is the number of times it was referenced):

    Ali vs Norton III (IIII)
    Holmes vs Spinks I (I
    Holmes vs Spinks II (III)
    Lewis vs Holyfield I (II)
    Lewis vs Holyfield II (II)
    Fury vs Wilder I
    Foreman vs Briggs (II)
    Lewis vs Mercer
    Usyk vs Joshua
    Lara vs Williams (II)
    Foreman vs Schultz (IIII)
    De La Hoya vs Sturm
    Young vs Ali
    Hagler vs Antuofermo I ( II)
    Fighting Harada vs Johnny Famechon I (II)
    Louis vs Walcott I (III)
    Mosley vs De La Hoya
    Casmiero vs Rigodeaux
    Marquez vs Pacquiao III
    Hagler vs Leonard (II)
    Whitaker vs Chavez (II)
    Whitaker vs Ramirez
    Canelo vs Golovkin I (IIII)
    Canelo vs Golovkin II
    Kovalev vs Ward I
    Reid vs Ottke
    Nelson vs Fenech I (III)
    Holyfield vs Valuev
    Patterson vs Ellis (II)
    Parlov vs Conteh
    Coggi vs Gonzalez I
    Napole vs Muniz I
    Escalera vs Everett
    Leonard vs Hearns II
    Johnson vs Hart
    Griffith vs Rodriguez IV
    Kobayashi vs Amaya
    Jones Jr vs Si Hun (Olympic Gold Contest)
    Boudreax vs Ledoux
    Terrell vs Wepner
    Pacquiao vs Bradley I
    Parker vs Hamsho
    Qawi vs Ocasio
    Tiberi vs Toney


    MOST MENTIONED ROBBERIES: George Foreman vs Axel Schulz AND Gennady Golovkin vs Canelo Alverez AND Muhammad Ali vs Ken Norton III with 4 mentions.

    Interesting stuff. :)
     
    HDmexiqtioner, Jan 6, 2022
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  14. johnmaff36

    johnmaff36 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    How on gods green earth can usyk v joshua be classed as a robbery? Can somebody please explain this?
     
    johnmaff36, Jan 6, 2022
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  15. ETM

    ETM I thought I did enough to win. Full Member

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    Holmes certainly should have regained his title. That was personal.
     
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