examples of CLEAR corruption in the sport?

Champs like Dempsey and Jeffries drawing the colour line. The mob controlling the sport for decades. Y'know, what a lot of folks call "the good old days".

 

Most of the career of Emmanuel Agustus. The most robbed man in the history of the sport.

 

WBC, WBA, IBF ..... etc., etc.

 

Doug Beavers , Bob Lee and the IBF taking gifts to lift fighters up through a nonexistent ratings committee..

 

He brought a lot of that on himself with his half assed approach to his career. There were plenty of times where he showed up under-trained, disinterested, or simply tanked it (Vester is the most obvious example of that). When a guy doesnt take his own career seriously it leaves a wide opening for nobody else to either. Those guys get written off easier and robbed easier. To me I thought the worst robbery he got was against Ward. Not because he was so much better than Ward but because the fight was so good nobody seemed to care that the wrong guy won. Ward was like that though. He was so nice nobody ever wanted to admit how limited he was and how his two best wins were gifts. I thought he lost all three to Gatti pretty clearly and thought he lost to Augustus as well. Look how wide the scores were against Augustus, that was ridiculous. Being incredibly generous you could say Ward won a very close, very competitive decision but I thought Augustus took it close but clear.

 

I'll add a Don King fighter who had died rising in the rankings merely by his association with King and Arum paying something like $250,000 to the IBF to get Axel Schulz rated so Foreman could have an easy defense and keep the gravy train rolling then Foreman loses clearly only to win an obviously corrupt gift (Arum pays $250,000 to get a guy ranked but didnt buy off those judges? get real) then when the IBF orders a rematch Foreman ducks the guy that was so bad they had to pay a quarter of a million dollars just to get ranked so he could fight him in the first place. Talk about a joke of a corrupt boxing shell game. I wont even go into how he then hid out for a year and a half before defending his "lineal" title against Crawford Grimsley who nobody had ever heard of who had only defeated two men in his entire career who had winning records and between them they had nearly 30 losses.

 

There have been a lot of incidents in obscure countries where a round ends a minute early, the home guy gets a 20 count, etc.

 

Did he ever go under the name of Emanuel Burton? I'm watching a video where he fought Mayweather and he is introduced as Emmanuel Burton. Is that him?

 

yep

 

Reid V Ottke. Did anything happen to the ref after this?

 

He died.

 

That time Jose Sulaiman, Don King and Mike Tyson tried acting like Tyson had successfully defended the WBC belt against Buster Douglas.

Klompton already mentioned this, but he dead boxer rising up the rankings months after he died was a classic. I can't remember if that was part of the IBF scandal or not.

 

The most frustrating corruption to watch is a biased ref allowing fouls, restricting styles, taking points, all so that his preferred boxer can win. This is especially repugnant to watch when the fighter being helped in that corrupt manner is of the same race or ethnic group as the ref. Even more frustrating is seeing that same ref being assigned to similar fights repeatedly as if he has no supervision or as if those who are supposed to be supervising him don't notice, don't care or approve of his antics.