How much is this going to upset me?

Not sure I heard that about Gibb’s before? Why was he replaced?

 

The Hagler camp actually objected to him, fearing that as a Brit Gibbs might favour the boxer over the brawler. They obviously hadn't watched Joe Frazier vs Joe Bugner, which Gibbs as sole judge (and home town ref) awarded to Frazier.

 

If you add the Hagler scores I posted, plus the draw cards Sugar Ray still has more votes.

The sour gapes for this fight lingers. Another poster had it right. Don't blame the judges, blame Hagler himself for the style and tactics he used.

 

13 for Leonard winning, 12 for him not winning (not including the ones I just mentioned), which is rather less than the 68.4% you were claiming.

 

It's not sour grapes, it's just scoring the fight.
Some of us score it for Hagler, cleanly.
I think all the scores like 118-110, 117-111 and 116-112 for Leonard are preposterous. That's my honest opinion.
I'm not impressed when people start citing or claiming such scores, I can't give those scores any credit whatsoever.

 

6 for Hagler winning, 19 thought Hagler didn't win when you put it that way, a sizable 76%. Of those who picked a winner SRL had more than double the votes of Hagler.

 

He was arguing for a massive consensus for a Leonard win, which isn't the case.

 

118-110, or 117-111 are bad cards. But you can't dismiss all media cards as a group. They just like the judges felt Leonard won it. This fight is not that controversial, I can name robberies. The sour grapes comments stem from the amount of times the Hagler fans act as if the scoring was controversial.

 

Of course the scoring is controversial.


controversy
noun
noun: controversy; plural noun: controversies
prolonged public disagreement or heated discussion.