Canelo vs Jacobs looked rigged!

I saw just cople of rounds and i thinked the same, GGG talked also about that, but he can't use the word - rigged, that's why he tell it looked like a sparring.

 

“I purposely lost a fight to Billy Fox because they promised me that I would get a shot to fight for the title if I did,” LaMotta said to a Senate subcommittee investigating corruption in boxing.

Tommy Campbell testified in 1956 that he took a dive against Aragon in 1950, and the California State Athletic Commission investigated judges who awarded Aragon a disputed decision over Chuck Davey in 1954.

Willie Pep, who is generally recognized as the greatest featherweight ever and one of the best regardless of weight, almost certainly took a dive against Lulu Perez in 1954.
A ton of late money made Perez a 4-1 favorite, despite Pep’s number-one ranking and the fact that he’d gone 23-1 since his loss to Saddler. Perez stopped him in the second.
In 1981 Sports Illustrated published a story that suggested Pep threw the fight for $16,000. Pep sued for $75-million and lost. The jury deliberated just 15 minutes.

Don Jordan, who reigned briefly as welterweight champion toward the end of the decade, told Heller in 1970 the degree to which the mob was involved in boxing.
“Every fight in the country they were involved in,” Jordan said. “They controlled it from the very beginning. Fights I fought were prearranged, before I even entered the ring. I knew who was going to win and who don’t (sic).”


https://www.ringtv.com/121813-think-boxing-is-corrupt-this-is-nothing-compared-to-50s/

 

You would be naive to think it doesn't go on, but evidence in past fights doesn't tell us whether this fight was rigged.

To me, the more suspicious high profile fight recently was Garcia v Spence, where Spence seemed comfortable banking rounds and Garcia gave a pretence of trying to win whilst staying out of trouble. If it later emerged that there was a mutual agreement that Spence would take the fight and Garcia would be left undamaged with a narrative for each man that allowed them to move on and earn elsewhere then I'd not be surprised. Again though, it's conjecture.

 

I don't think so for a couple of reasons. I'm sure DAZN has a performance clause in Canelo's contract. Also, a loss by Canelo, making him more vulnerable, would make him more watchable for many. Jacobs has looked mediocre in parts of his career. Hell, he barely got by Sulecki, a guy he had a 5" reach advantage over. Jacobs rarely puts up a sustained effort over the course of a fight.

 

Canelo vs Jacobs was fixed, Garcia Spence was not. That was just what happens when you fight an equally skilled but physically bigger guy. You shell up and pick your shots because everything the bigger guy throws really gets to you so you either throw back and risk getting knocked out or you shell up like Garcia did

 

What do you think about jacobs

dont forget the fight vs rocky fielding. Those kock downs looked fake and if you read Rocky’s body language at the post conference interview you can see how awkward the whole situation is for him.

 

Nice alt

 

Good grief...there was no rigging. And at least in this fight, the right guy won.

 

Good to know.

I was on the fence until i read your post.

 

Always happy to help the less informed....