Which active fighter has been robbed of clear, legit wins more than any other? My bets go on either Emmanuel Augustus or Glen Johnson. Just seen the video for Augustus - Figeroa, and yet again he got sticked. Never seen a robbery worse than Augustus - Burton, with the exception of maybe Reid - Ottke. Glen Johnson seems to a good few losses on his record that he shouldn't, Woods, Dawson, Ottke, Sheika off the top of my head, maybe more.
GOTTA GO WITH JAMEEL Mccline was robbed arguably by peter 3kdowns and the judges still ****ed him, i thought Mccline also beat Byrd but was screwed there also:-( and i thought Jameel also deserved the nod against Calvin Brock but no, some guy's Just keep getting ****ed over and over:twisted:tired:verysad
I have never seen a fighter get ****ed over some many times as Augustus. I swear to god, half his losses should be wins. He has beaten so many guys CLEARLY and then just gets a horrible loss by judges that you know were ****ing paid off, its atrocious. Ive seen him robbed in at least 5 different fights, and thats just the televised ones that I happened to catch.
It's Augustus. Problem with him is that he constantly goes to other fighter's backyards and wins rounds only competitively despite the fact that he could probably dominate and destroy the majority of his opponents. He's just always been too complacent with his career and likes to clown around and go defensive too often. If he had taken his career more seriously right off the bat he would have probably held titles by now instead of becoming the journeyman that looks like a good name on other fighters' resumes.
I'm positive that those judges didn't give him the scores he deserved solely because they would get pissed off when he would do his drunken boxing dancing.
As nice a guy as he is, Jameel McCline really doesn't fit in to this thread. He could have arguably gotten a draw against Byrd as he banked the early rounds, scored a KD, and won a late round, but the truth is that he let that fight slip away and a draw would have kept the belt with Byrd anyway. I don't know anyone that scored for McCline over Brock and there's also this little matter of Samuel Peter winning just about every other round other than the 2 in which he tasted the canvas. You've never seen a guy get knocked down 3 times and win every other round to win on points? Well, Wladimir Klitschko did it against Peter 2 years earlier against one of none other than Samuel Peter. McCline is a victim of his own devices. He's a passive fighter who doesn't open up enough to really take matters into his own hands. Wladimir Klitschko fought him as though he had knives instead of gloves. Imagine if McCline would have just been a little braver. This thread is for hard-luck guys like Glen Johnson, and on a smaller level due to the magnitude of the fights, Luis Collazo.
Glen Johnson's entire promotional campaign is based on calling every close loss a robbery against him. He's been robbed, of course, but he's also lost alot of clean fights that people just chalk up to as robbery whether or not they've actually seen them. Unfortunately for Glen, he was pretty adept at doing just enough to not win. Woods and Gonzalez are the main ones I'd consider dodgy, having never seen the Branco fight. Every other loss was either extremely close or a clean one.
The first Judah fight, a draw, was a robbery. Thankfully, he got the chance to avenge it. I haven't seen the Branco fight either so I can't comment on it. I have read in articles written about Johnson that it was a bad decision but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. A lot of articles are conveniently written without much research done on the topic. Case in point, there was a front page article about Oliver McCall in my local newspaper today that may as well have been written by a little kid. The facts (Samil Sam was a former WBC champ lol) and the implications (McCall is vying to become champion once again - probably so but will never happen) are completely twisted. If you weren't a boxing fan and you came upon the article you'd swear that McCall was still a major player in the heavyweight division. That being said, a journalist who writes an article about Glen Johnson can go on hearsay and lump the Branco fight into a list of the bad decisions that he got without even seeing it.
This may not be a popular choice, but I'd throw Golota in there. He got screwed in both Bowe fights (his own fault), and definitely got jobbed in the Byrd and Ruiz fights.