IS FIGHTING AT HOME a HUGE ADVANTAGE?

Froch got a gift in his hometown over Dirrel.Ward can do no wrong in Oakland.
**** them both and lets hope for a double ko in a "neutral" site.

 

I think there should be a few more options on than huge and it makes no difference. The answer lies somewhere between.

The fans, on your side, which influences the judges and the referee. Traveling can be disruptive and be very distracting to some fighters. It also depends where the fight is and who exactly is fighting. I think Kessler vs Froch would have been more fairly judged somewhere in England... English fans like kessler.

Germany has been notoriously bad in the past for scoring but i don't know if its true to the same extent as in the past.

 

Yeah just ask Cotto after the Mosley & Clottey fights. :deal

 

"Home field advantage" is over-rated. There are a lot of distractions and temptations at home that you don't have on the road. Sure a friendly crowd can motivate an athlete but so can an unfreindly crowd for someone who relishes the role of the bad guy.

 

I'm a season ticket holder for the Raiders and I just watched them get their ass kicked in Oakland by Miami. Next week they go into San Diego who have not lost a game in December in 5 years and the Raiders dominated them for the win :huh

There can be many distractions playing at home from old friends, relatives and such.

 

I scanned many of the posts and didn't see this point mentioned in any of them that I read. The ones mentioned, I won't expand on.

Fighters in my area, New Orleans, live and train at or below sea level. If a local fighter takes a fight in say, Denver, Colorado, he would have to arrive there a few weeks ahead of the fight to train and try to acclimate to the environment of that altitude or chance being at a distinct disadvantage if arriving closer to the fight date. I can't imagine a fighter being in good enough shape to arrive a day or two before a fight at high altitude from here and be ready to give his all.

 

I get what you're sayign and I voted yest, but Hatton did kinda have a home advantage against Mayweather. The crowd was all Britain, they even booed the national anthem. I have casual boxing fans, who are firends watch the fight and they think it was in the UK

 

that's the thing though. 1 or 2 games don't mean anything. You look at their historical home stats and compare them to their away stats and I'll bet you the home stats are better. I haven't even looked em up, but I'm positive.

 

good point, a good example is Pacquiao and when trains in the Philippines

 

Good pointI watched the world series of boxing last weekend and the memphis team went against Mexico City and the Americans got killed. They all started the first well and won the first looking like the better fighter and then they would gas out quickly afterward in a 5 round fight.
The mexicans were also very good body punchers and that's contributed to it, but I'm sure the altitude was a problem as well

 

Depends where.

In Germany you gotta KO the opponent otherwise they'll trick you, damn pigs.

Makes me wonder what are the boxing organisations doing, there are like letting it be this way. Watch some of the German boxing shows and you'll see what I mean. there is no other place like this.

 

you only have to look at how americans fold like lawn chairs whenever they fight outside of america :rofl

home advantage is huge, if your born american you have a huge advantage because you think that everyone has to come to you. most americans don't even have a passport and are completely ignorant about anything that happens outside their own country :-(

thats why 23 out of 24 american boxing writers tipped jeff lacy to beat calzaghe - absoloutely zero awareness :dead:dead:dead