Nationality and diversity in choosing judges

No my heart is'nt in Mexico.

Love skill fighters that actually throw effective punches.
Does'nt matter if the fighter comes foward or sits back in countermode.

Loved Chavez because he was both great offensively and defensively.
Great at being right there in your face and still pickoff shots with his gloves and play defense both parrying and with waist movements.

Finito Lopez! What a fighter, technically brilliant and threw punches intended to do damage.

Juan Manuel Marquez goes with out saying, cut from the came cloth of Finito.
All brilliant boxer punchers.

Loved Duran, Hearns, Hagler, Holyfield, Azumah Nelson.
Rooted for Azumah in every fight of his against the Mexican.

The fighters I root against are the cutsies. The type that think boxing is about surviving and not getting hit.
The Leonard's, Whitaker's, Hopkins, Mayweather........fighters that are fully capable but go conservative. Fighters who's jaws drap in disbelief when a decision goes against them in a fight thats all about stalling and not getting hit. Where's the offensive part of the game?
Where are the effective punches?

When I judge a counterpuncher that mainly fights on the backfoot, I ask myself if he's attempting to land meaningful effective punches.
If the answer is no, than that fighter is'nt my cup of tea.
If the answer is yes, my joy is to watch such a fighter dismantle a come foward aggressive fighter being aggressive with his counterpunches as well.

******* will be suprised, but my two favorite fighters of alltime are JC Chavez and Evander Holyfield.
Both those fighters really brought me real joy watching boxing growing up as a young adult.
My third favorite fighter is Alexis Arguello. Actually sometimes he's my favorite. I love all three equally actually.
All truly ATG fighters with actual elite boxing skill who always fought to land effective shots, never stalling a fight.

"These are my fists, I'm going to outbox the crap out of you and hurt you in the process."
That to me is the boxing that brings me joy! :bbb:bbb:bbb

 

Who do you think beat him in American soil and who were the judges???

 

Atta boy let it all out!

 

To many rounds close and up for grabs heading into the final seconds.
I'm on record as stating I wont call such a decision a robbery, but I have a fair beef to say that almost always judges in Nevada will side with the name fighter or the aggressive fighter in rounds that are really close and could be called even.
In this case they did'nt do either. Two of the three American judges sided with the American.

The desicion would have looked alot better had it come from three neutral judges.
In fact I dont think Bradley would have gotten the decision had there been three neutral judges judging.

Same goes for Bradley's decision against Pacquiao.
No way the decision goes against Pacquiao with three neutral judges judging the fight.

 

I beg to differ!
If you're Brazilian, you're likely to judge for a Brazillian in a close fight.
Americans are not better than anyone other nationality, they do the same as any other nationality.
They preach fairness, but when it gets right down to it every nationality carries the pride of their own with them.
I dont think thats a bad thing, but for fairness sake, if you're a boxing commision you see to it that its stacked as fair as possible.

Three American judges judging a fight between an American and a foreigner is not stacking the deck fairly.

 

Dont hold your breath is right.
Honesty amongst humans??? nut:nut

 

Its not called incompetence, its called bias.

Take a close fight between a Mexican and a Puerto Rican that three neutral judges officially ruled a draw.

Take a poll in the streets of Mexico as to who won the fight.
Take the same poll into the streets of Puerto Rico???


Its called bias!

 

I guarantee you that 90% of bad decisions are not based on incompetence but on bias of some kind.

Rarely do you see a bad decision between two unknown Joe Blows.

Its when politics are involved and there's big money or nationalistic pride thats at stake that a bad decision rears its ugly head.