What's a boxing conspiracy theory you will go to your grave defending?

So why did Byrd have Khan ahead of Canelo?
Why did Moretti score the first Golovkin fight for Golovkin?

Why did Moretti and Weisfeld score the Jacobs fight 7-5?

Why did Feldman score the Golovkin rematch a draw but scored the Jacobs fight 8-4 for Alvarez?

 

Malik Scott took a dive against wilder. He winked before going down from a slap.

Canelo was on the juice. It wasn't the beef. He had 10x the amount of PEDs in his system than someone who consumed tainted beef.

 

That Tyson fury is not innocent of ped use, and that the story of wild boar is just absolutely ludicrous, I wonder if he will ever admit it, maybe one day I could see it tormenting him enough to own up eventually

 

Actually I agree with this, most of the dodgy cards are enabled by "elbow grease" as you put it. They favour the "right" fighter and build cozy relationships, and in return are chosen for more/bigger fights and other favours, not because there is an explicit transaction of money to produce the desired outcome of one particular fight. Where fights are fixed it is usually the B-side fighter / journeyman who gets paid to take a dive.

 

I don't think it is problematic, when people give stats like "64 out of 70 ringside observers saw it for fighter A, 4 saw it a draw, 1 saw it for fighter B"

We can't say the person who thought fighter B won is corrupt, they just see it differently.

 

Bob arum was in on the plaster in antonios gloves felt bad he got caught an rewarded him a massive paycheck with pacman fight . which again back fired cuz manny messed his eye up for good

 

Canelo vs chavez was a big mexican pay day. It was just preparation for ggg fight. An they got paid for it chavez was just meant to be a bigger guy an go some rounds

 

I think this was always pretty known rather than a conspiracy theory.

 

I agree, particular for fight 49. Holmes could’ve bludgeoned Tex Cobb in a rematch that night and he still would’ve lost by decision.

 

I get it. I think it qualifies.

 

Foreman took a dive against Ali or was sabotaged by his corner.

 

I think that’s more common sense rather than a conspiracy theory.

Actually I don’t think it’s ‘all’ or anything like that, I just think it’s pretty prevalent and has been for a long time all over sports.

I can’t really think of any conspiracy theories I have. I did have one earlier regarding Don King wanting Tyson to go to prison and giving him a “tax lawyer” so he would get convicted. It’s agreed upon that the defense didn’t do a good job defending him, but that whole “Tyson got defended by a tax lawyer” thing isn’t true. Vincent Fuller defended Tyson, and he got John Hinckley found not guilty (he recently got out of the mental hospital now) of trying to kill President Reagan. They changed criminal laws regarding insanity after that. Hard to have more success as a criminal lawyer than getting a would-be presidential assassin off.

So now I don’t really think I have any conspiracy theories.

 

Your comments are flat out true.