All this talk about "six knockdowns" to make Lucky Pac look better than he was

I mean, isn't it pretty much commonsense? The guy goes into the fight with plan. he goes down from a slip, a push, another slip and possibly another push....but the ref is calling them all KDs! Now the fight is halfway over and he's behind by NINE points! Of course it's gonna affect his strategy. His whole strategy is based on winning by decision over 12 rounds. but you can't win on points if there's 6 rounds to go and you're already behind by 9 points...you know it's gonna affect him mentally. he's gonna have to do some things that he normally wouldn't do....he basically has to try for the KO which leaves him MORE VULNERABLE to KDs.

But the thing is, it doesn't just affect algieri....it also affects pac. because now pac doesn't have to press the action and take chances. he's already got the fight in the bag. and if if algieri goes looking to mix it up pac knows he can handle him with ease. so, pac can take his foot off the gas and preserve his energy for the late rounds

...if the first three KDs are not called, we go into the last half of the fight with algieri possibly winning the 5th and very likely able to start winning rounds...then the pressure falls back on pac to start taking chances in order to keep his lead, especially if he's starting to fade. that plays into algieri's hands...a very different fight.

it was the ref who determined the outcome of this fight more than anybody....this is why boxing needs some serious reform.

 

but notice how NOBODY is even talking about the slips...or the push. every article you read, it's like pac was steamrolling the guy. none of the articles I've read even MENTION except in passing about the fact that 3 and possibly four of those KDs were wrongful. This is because they want to push for a pacman-fmj fight. just like you said...they want pac to look better than he really was. and to me, he didn't look that good. but it's all part of the corruptness of this sport. it's like this sport has zero integrity....i jsuspect a lotta fight fans probably don't even know how to SPELL integrity. so, the promoters and the officials get away with this kind of fiasco.

I just don't like how everybody from the media to the promoters to the officials treats this sport like some kind of toilet.

I remember a couple of years ago, the NFL officials went on strike, they got these replacement guys...and the replacements made a couple of bad calls in two games ...and the NFL sports fans threw a fit....and that was it, the league paid the real officals to come backto work. that would never happen in boxing because the promoters and managers know boxing fans are too ignorant, uneducated and have such low expectations and standards they would never demand better.

 

well, it's attitudes such as yours that makes it easy for the corruption in boxing to happen. if this had been, say, pac vs canelo, and canelo had slipped and they ref called it a KD, then it happened with a push and another slip, i think the mexican fan base would be up in arms right now tearing HBO, the ref and the promoters a new a-hole...but because it's algieri and he was "expected to lose" people will let anything slide even if it's clearly an injustice.