http://thedailysportsherald.blogspot.com/2008/11/greatest-boxing-robberies-of-last.html here is the top 4 biggest robbery according to the list.. LEWIS v. HOLYFIELD I (HEAVYWEIGHT) - 1999 (Draw) MOSLEY v. DE LA HOYA (WELTERWEIGHT) - 1999 (Unanimous Decision) TRINIDAD v. DE LA HOYA (WELTERWEIGHT) - 1999 (Majority Decision) MAYWEATHER JR. V. CASTILLO I (LIGHTWEIGHT)- 2004 (Unanimous Decision) which fight do you think is the biggest robbery?
Sturm-De La Hoya, Holyfield-Valuev, Lewis-Holyfield 1 (well, it's another decade), Santa Cruz-Casamayor, all bigger than your suggestions IMO.
Holyfield-Lewis I was more than a decade ago at this point. To call some of those fights named in the article robberies is ridiculous though. Close fights, sure. Controversial fights, sure. But half the fights named in that article were far from being robberies. Anyway, my vote would go to Sturm-DLH. The fact that the author had Mosley-DLH higher than Sturm-DLH highlights that the author has no idea what a robbery is.
What? Lewis/Holyfield by a long shot. I damn near shitted on myself when the results were read. Plus - I had money on that fight and walked away with nothing because of it. Still makes me mad when I think about it. De la Hoya/Strum was pretty bad. All of that - just for him to crawl on the floor from a B-Hop Body shot. That's what you call "For the Love of Money!"
Out of those 4 fight's I'd have to say the Lewis fight is the least imortant (legacy wise) Those 2 De La Hoya fight's & the JLC fight were defo fight's that would have changed boxing history had it gone the other way, alot of big fight's made or not made cause of the results of those outcomes.
That is a terrible list. Mayweather vs. Castillo was far from a "robbery". And what about Ruiz vs. Holyfield 1 back in 2000? One of the worst decisions I have ever seen.
I agree with PBF...close fight FARRRR from a robbery???? figueroa over augustus was the biggest I have seen lately