Apparently the scorecards were fair. People watching and commenting on Twitter were nervous throughout Johnson may lose, and he did...and from the sound of it this wasn't numerable among the many questionable decisions he suffered on the wrong end of in his career. Another one bites the dust. Toney and Johnson essentially shamed into retirement within a week by way of losses to a club fighter and novice respectively. Tarver held to a draw with Cunningham last night keeps him alive, for now, and supposedly Hopkins plans to fight on even after letting Kovalev outbox and dominate him, but time is running out for the Roy Jones pre-Lebedev opponent club. (Danny Green is slated to face Roberto Bolonti next week, but otherwise everyone is retired: all of the 90's challengers at MW & LHW, as well as John Ruiz, Anthony Hanshaw, Felix Trinidad, Omar Sheika, Jeff Lacy, Joe Calzaghe...)
What's crazy is just nine months ago Johnson had enough left to have outfought unbeaten Swedish prospect Erik Skoglund and pick up one more robbery for the road before he ambles into the bingo parlor.
I guess Yildirim at least did rep Turkey @ the Olympics, so this isn't as bad as losing to just any 5-0 scrub.
Yildrin looked really promising, very busy and strong....could be worth keeping an eye on him as he's REALLY been fast tracked
I can't remember Skoglund Vs Johnson, but Yildrim looks...pretty damned good, I'd take him over Skoglund with fair judging
You do have to take into consideration Skoglund suffered a pretty serious back injury in the run up to the match, it was so ba he needed surgery on it afterward and has been out of the ring 7 months now. So maybe "he just had a bad night" excuse is legit in that case.
