Mijares fans, an interesting bit of nonsense here with the scoring of Mijares bouts.

I saw the Navarro fight and thought it should have been a wide UD win for Mijares and scored accordingly by all 3 judges. He did nothing in that fight to really suggest anything other than a clear UD at the least. Navarro had a few moments but was outclassed period.

 

That will never happen... :-(

The only thing missing now is a Teddy Atlas "We Need a Comission!" rant.

 

Scores a good number of even rounds too in comparison to most judges. For example, I've never seen Lederman score a 10-10 round. But should we count him? His scorecards are garbage.

 

The Navarro fight could've easily been scored 8-4 for Mijares as well. I don't think the consensus was 10-2 or 9-3 really. I scored it either 9-3 or 8-4, it may well have been 8-4. Navarro came on toward the end while Mijares slacked off a bit.

 

I don't think there's any way to figure out what the hell these judges were thinking and why they scored these fights the way they did. At least 50% of scorecards in general are off and a large portion of those are way off.

The only theory that makes sense is what (I believe) you said a long time ago: judges are biased against supernatural fighters. Mijares got ridiculous scores in his fights a number of times. Even though he's still undefeated, Guzman has gotten scores that stain his legacy on paper a little bit as well (the Barrios bull**** and the Beltran close score in particular). Pernell Whitaker got screwed multiple times. Calzaghe nearly got screwed over by the judges last month.

One thing that could be interesting to research is if there's one judge out there who has almost never been way off on a scorecard. Pretty much any name judge that I can think of has pissed me off at one time or another.