Fixed fights?

I don't tend to give this subject much credence - maybe it's just the fight fan in me that wants to believe my sport is on the up and up, but one revisited fight recently came to light that really smelled. If anyone ever watched the Dwight Qawi-Ossie Ocasio fight from '87, you probably said, "What a **** decision" and thought nothing else. That's what I thought when I saw it live back then, but rewatching it recently made my mind wander. First of all, if you listen to Ferdie Pacheco, he ranted and raved, which was good. It's our duty as fight fans to rant and rave at a bad decision. Ferdie had it 10-0 for Qawi and they gave Ocasio the fight. Watching it again - not paying attention to Ferdie's opinion - I had it 6-3-1 Qawi. A rank decision, but that's not what made me wonder. Somewhere during the bout Ferdie mentions how he can't understand how Ocasio is suddenly ranked #2 in the world. OK, now he's getting somewhere. I looked up Ocasio's record and in late '84 he loses his cruiser title and between then and 2 1/2 years later when he fights Qawi he only has one fight, a 10 round decision against some clubfighter, which was 14 months before the Qawi fight. How is he suddenly elevated to #2, then cops a bad decision over Qawi and gets a title fight against Holyfield? It's obvious only a KO could've prevented his date with destiny and as he fought safety first (or ran like a thief if you prefer), this wasn't going to happen. It does appear the judges were 'talked to'.

 

Good post.

 

Seldon-Tyson, screamed fix, that fight stunk out the joint so bad, it reeked of ugliness...

 

It was suss. Seldon went down from a punch that clearly missed.

 

Don't say that, the nuthuggers will scream Seldon did it just because he was afraid of Tyson, why fight the ****er then....

 

, Good one...