I don't dislike Paul smith. I like him I think he is a good boxer and he seems an alright guy. What I do dislike is the situation where Paul smith beat up on 3 tomato cans and then suddenly got the chance to fight for the wbo title
It was a disgrace he ever got a title shot. But, he did win the first fight, will probably get KOd in the rematch.
TBH I like. Paul Smith, and have known him years but I'm not sure how he got his first shot without beating anyone above British level really. Performed really well in the first AA fight. The shocking scoring of 1 judge led to an outcry and distracted the general public from the fact that the right result was given. I am not sure how anyone could have justified his ranking to have gotten the shot when he's struggling to be in British top 5. Still not his fault 2 cracking pay days and another couple afterwards. Boxings flawed but that's not. Paul's fault
Nobody can believe he got the first shot, but at the end of the day he did. When he got in the ring with AA, he put in a real career high performance and in a lot of people's eyes won the fight. It was a close fight, one that could have gone either way, but the score cards were an absolute farce. For how long is this going to continue? If someone is going to get a shot - no matter how they go there - at least allow them a fair crack of the whip. Something seriously needs to be done about the judging, too many fighters pushing themselves to the limit in training, leaving there families for weeks and then putting there bodies on the line only for people who have never stepped foot in a ring to **** them over. Teddy Atlas was going off his rocker about this the other day, daylight robbery in the fight between Tyson Cave & Oscar Escandon.