A Petition to End Boxing Robberies! Finally.

Sorry, it won't work. This is do-gooder/feel-good type of pie in the sky type of thing. As long as humans, corrupt or otherwise, judge fights, then boxing will be subject to bad decisions. They're as inherent to the sport of boxing, as in it's DNA as anything else, unfortunately.

 

LOL, why does the sport think there is a simple answer to this alleged problem?

Do you not think if there was a simple answer, the problem would of been solved years ago?

And as I mentioned, this is an alleged problem. Controversial decisions are as much part of our glorious sport's history as the great fights with clear winners, and the great champs. Something would be lost if everyone agreed over every fight, for starters why bother with boxing forums?

Controversy is very, very important to the sport, it gives the oxygen of publicity and helps make everyone involved money.

 

Boxing has been corrupt long before the guy that wrote this was a zygote.

Love him for trying, but he's in over his head.

 

I suppose in Lewis Holyfiled I every one thought Lewis won outside of the 3 judges lol.


Nothing is going to happen over this. Boxing has had bad judgeing for over 100 years. As long as some promoter like Don King wants/needs a fighter to win, it will always happen.

 

It's like getting a petition signed to stop a dictator. You think they care? The promoters put the money on the table, and buy the judges.

 

What is the problem? Boxing has always been like this, and it probably always will be. Petitions have been signed before. I am not being funny, but if the glare from superfights like Holyfield/LewisI (which I never really had a problem with, as I had Lewis edging it, thus a draw seems fair) or Chavez/Whitaker, which was worldwide did nothing to change the sport, do you really think this will do anything?

Sit back, enjoy the ride and accept the sport for what is, rather than what you want it to be, it is ultimately far more fun that way. And when something good happens, you can be pleasantly surprised rather than protesting that, that should be the norm.

To misquote DK: Only in boxing...

 

It won't hurt, but it won't help.

Controversy is endemic to boxing, because a small group of people have the money to make the sport turn round.

Boxing is an EXPENSIVE sport, and the promoters who put it on aren't poor. They buy and pay for just about everything, including the occassional judge or referee. Does it suck sometimes? Yes. Will it ever change? No.

The world of MMA is a BIT better(Not quite as many bad decisions and bad ref calls per fight, it would appear to me), but even they have problems. Why? Because in the end, its subjective. A judge will see what he sees, and more often then not, mark it down. Why should he be subject to discipline just because fans watching from TV(Not live, looks entirely different ringside) disagree with him? He's corrupt, he's bought, he's paid for, you will scream, clearly he was influenced. Prove it. Innocent until proven guilty.

At some point, a boxing fan needs to own up to the fact that he, actually, doesn't know boxing better than the people who devote their lives to the business. Corruption will never go away because the sport will never be financed corporately, and bad decisions and calls will never go away because humans aren't robots, they make errors, and have perspective.

Its a fools errand.

 

goldenboy promotions just announced they want to make floyd v khan mega fight in 2013

your next fix will be khan v peterson

 

Ironically the sport arguably was at its most popular when it was most corrupt.

The sport is probably as clean as it has ever been, but is as unpopular as it has been in a century.

So you are right, there is a correlation between popularity and corruption, in a perverse way the more corrupt the sport is, the more popular it is.

This maybe because when the right fighter wins a promoter can create the matches that make them money, and generally us the fancy, happy.

There is little evidence to suggest a totally clean sport would be for the greater good, indeed the opposite is suggested.

Which is what already happens!

As great a tool as the Internet could be, the problem is when everyone shouts, no one can here anything.

Anyway this might be of interest to you (KO March 1995) Bernard Fernandez insight into the workings of being a judge:

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For the cathartic value alone, I understand and applaud how signing this petition must feel like you've done a good deed, at least.

 

It all starts by banning bowties on referees.