Many years of watching boxing and I have seen some really horrible decisions. It has become an expected part of the sport for people to cross their fingers and hope for a win, even if there is an obvious, deserved winner. Despite the common knowledge of crappy judges and robbery decisions, why do I see the same names popping up time and again? Who are these guys and how do they become judges? Who are they accountable to? Are they regulated in anyway? Not only are there bad decisions, but some of the margins can be impossible. Then we have the odd istuation where the tally is counted wrong and a decision changed.....how ****ing hard can it be???
I been watching boxing at a hardcore level for over 20 yrs. and I haven't even been able to count my ten fingers on what I feel were true robberies. While many fans believe they have seen a robbery a more every single week. Commentator's leading the viewers to believe they have seen a robbery is what I feel the real problem is. You cannot commentate on a fight and accurately judge it at the same time, the concentration lost while speaking inherently makes for very poor judging. There is a reason judges sit quietly, judge, and are never heard from. Judging fights is very difficult, there's no way you can be speaking and judging, it's a 100% concentration thing. That's not even including commentator's with a bias, like maybe he called a certain fighter to win and doesn't want to be wrong. Then you have fighter's, trainer's who are commentator's with vendetta's or admiration for certain fighter's in the ring etc. the list goes on...
I can count a few robberies: 1) Lewis/Holyfield I 2) Lara/Williams 3) 114-114 by CJ Ross for Canelo/Mayweather 4) Pac/Bradley I, complete robbery 5) Whitaker/Chavez 6) Paulie Ayala/Hugo Dianzo That's just off the top of my head.
I see you stretched it all the way back to Whitaker-Chavez and still only came up with 6, doesn't that say something?
i guess you could call pac brad a robbery. i had it only by 2 rounds to pac.. though it was clear to me pac won the fight. lara williams was ****ing disgraceful... martinez cintron ? that was a robbery an just plain wierd..
