We all know that Boxing is an honest sport and no-one involved in it at any level would seek to gain unfair advantage. So this is a purely hypothetical argument, imagining a world where boxing was actually very, very corrupt indeed. In that world, imagine for a second that a fight has not gone the way that the powers that be wished it to. An expensive outcome for both the losing fighter's team but also their backers, the money guys who have big plans that are now at risk. Let's suppose that the judges of this hypothetical fight wanted to help, out of the goodness of their hearts. Obviously if the scorecards don't reflect the fight everyone watched there could be a problem. However, when the three scorecards at the end of the fight were called in, what would happen if one of the scorecards would be ridiculous? Not just bad, not even really bad, but so bad as to be ridiculous. To defy credibility. To make one question whether the judge in question even saw the fight? What would be the effect of such a card? Would it inevitably draw the lions share of anger once the decision was revealed? Would the other two cards, which are also not reflective of the fight that everyone just watched be almost ignored as the attention was fixed on the one crazy card? Would that card in fact help to make the other two cards look better, more plausible? Maybe the official bodies that protect the sport would conveniently choose to focus their attention on the crazy card, citing that as the major point of concern? Rather than the decision itself? Maybe that crazy card stratagem would be a good way of deflecting attention and allowing the same crooked process to go on time after time as only one judge out of three would be damaged by any enquiry? If that judge is already nearing retirement age anyway so much the better! Of course this wouldn't happen in boxing, but in the hypothetical world of corrupt boxing maybe the crazy card wouldn't actually be so crazy after all?
It's very far fedged, things like that happening in one of the fairest sports on earth, but it's thoeretically possible. What if it went even deeper, and they perform this hypothetical trick in an undercard fight to draw attention away from the main event. Now that would really be as far fedged as diabolical.
Indeed so. In the UK we're lucky to have a very vigilant board of control that would very quickly stamp out any such practices.
What amazes me the most is that some people think boxing is corrupt over a few mil/few hundred grand here and there but can't admit to themselves that they've been conned over the whole covid narrative which has seen billions and trillions of dollars being stolen from the middle and working classes. If judges, promoters and sanctioning bodies will lie through their teeth to protect someone that isn't a cash cow, imagine what others would do to gain unimaginable wealth and power
Thankfully there's currently a global disclosure program in place to educate people on this using sport as the medium. Hence the increasingly bizarre VAR calls in soccer, the blatant manipulation in the finale of last seasons Grand Prix championship etc etc. All of which are carefully calibrated to reveal the corruption that runs through the entire edifice that we call reality. Boxing is seen as having done more than it's part in this operation.
The Chocolate Teapot that is the BBoC has wielded it's power over Boxing: 'In a statement, the board said: "Having considered Mr Ian John-Lewis' explanation, the Stewards of the Board decided to downgrade Mr John-Lewis from an A Star Class to an A Class Official.' Tremble ye mighty and despair!
