Sorry but Sylvester-Karmazin was not a f*cking robbery. Why are you people constantly calling every close fight a robbery? BS! And Ottke-Reid was in 2003. Jones-DM would have been between 1998 and 2000 ... get your facts straight.
Rocchigiani was one of the more popular boxers over here. My fave of the German fighters of the 90s btw. And Jones ducked him btw. The fight was even agreed, Rocky was even already in the states to fight him. Jones didn´t show up. Rocky sued the WBS and won.
Listen, I am an advocate for protesting that; when people call close fights robberies. I wailed out when people said it about Berto v Collazo, or Mares v Perez. But in my opinion, it was not close. It was clear, I can't see how you can make a case for Sylvester winning. What do you mean get your facts straight? I never said it wasn't in 2003, stop trying to try and put one over on me over stuff I never even said or was never even talking about. You are clearly butt-hurt because you know I'm right, your boy never showed any interest in the fight either, otherwise he would have got his arse out of Germany to where the big fights really were.
You think he believes that? Why would he keep on fighting then? Why would he go and take on the likes of Calzaghe and Hopkins when he's struggling with the likes of Anthony Hanshaw and getting knocked out by Danny Green? He knows he's in the twi-light of his career. He had EVERYTHING to lose in his prime, and getting jobbed out of a decision should it have been anything but one-sided was a probability.
Sylvester landed the cleaner, harder punches - look at Karmazin´s face afterwards - and showed the better defense by a big margin. Karmazin did more but was ineffective and did **** to Sylvester - who gets cut in every fight and his face looks like a mess after every fight - and dictated the pace. Depends what you like, hard to score. A draw is the perfect result for a fight like this where neither fighter proved he is suprior to the other. A rematch should be mandatory. My boy was Rocky who got robbed by DM himself with his acting job. So, I´m not biased towards DM. I call it like I see it. If you don´t like it, your problem not mine. Aside of that, DM made big money in Germany, he´s still rich today. Nobody knew him in the US and he would have to start from the bottom. Again. Why would he do so when he is the champ?
No, it was not. Look at Hill who beat Maske, the most popular German fighter since Bubi Scholz in the 50s/60s, in his last fight. In Germany. Not more of a probability as DM getting robbed in the US.
That is completely wrong. Jones didn't want to defend his title against Nunn and was stripped, and Rocchigiani and Nunn fought for the vacant belt. Jones fought Hill in April, and in May - when he announced his intention to fight WBA champion Lou Del Valle - they reinstated him as champion because they wanted a unification fight, and instead listed Rocchigiani as interim champion. He won a law-suit against the WBC because they stripped him of his title and gave him an interim title, giving his belt back to Jones.
I believe Jones didn't defend against Nunn because he was going to fight Buster Douglas at HW and vacated the belt. I think the contract was already signed when Roy Sr told Roy to pull out of the fight.
DM won 3 of the 4 major titles. He never lost them in the ring yet somehow Roy later on paraded them around!
http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Graciano_Rocchigiani_vs._Michael_Nunn http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/05/sports/plus-boxing-jones-douglas-is-off.html What the **** is so funny?atsch This is a well documented case, I am not talking out of my ass. If you watched boxing back in 98 you would probably remember this, i remembered it and found it right away when I looked it up.
Yep but the fight between Jones and Rocky for the full belt as already on. Rocchigiani was already in the US. Jones pulled out and the WBC did still keep him as the champ. Then Rocky sued them.