Who Received The Most Hometown Decisions?

paule ayala won alot of fights that where controversial. his fight with a mexican fighter named hugo danzo was a horrible decision that i thought hugo won.

 

Didnt Danzo floor Ayala a few times in that bout and still lost?

 

Eubanks got some close ones.

 

The whole Ottke thing is a bit of a myth..its has some truth but it gets blown out of proportion. Too many still thing that every fight of his that went the rounds was automatically controversial.

I have put myself through a lot of Ottke fights..I dont recommend it but I needed to make my own mind up about it.
I thought these fights were controversial:

Reid...absolute robbery in every sense of the word..terrible referring, a fight that I get angry even talking about

Brewer I...I thought Charles landed the harder blows and had Ottke under wraps for most the fight..not wide but I thought he won it clearly. The second fight wasnt controversial in my eyes however.

Larsen...Absolute snoozer, to a degree I thought Mads blew it a little because he seemed to fight like he needed the KO for large chunks of the fight, when I thought he could outbox Ottke from range when he wanted to. I still saw it for Mads in the end though.

The first Tate fight certainly had some element of controversy to it...I have only seen a highlights package of the fight itself but Thomas felt pretty hard down by at the time.

The Johnson fight I didnt think was controversial, I thought it was a clear and fair 7-5 verdict, but I have only seen it once...Glenn was far more raw back then.

For the sake of this thread though..Ottke is a good choice...He probably wouldnt have had the career he had if he had been fighting anywhere else.

 

All of Willie Jorrin's world title success was down to poor judging.

 

Paulie Ayala for me.

 

Ottke epitomizes the hometown decision IMO.

 

From what I have seen and other reports I have read..someone like Kingpetch seems to have benefited greatly from hometown cooking.

Considering the huge career defining wins he has over true greats, that essentially are difference between him being remembered and forgotten..At least two I know were robberies and others I have heard were aswell.

Sven certainly did aswell..but from I have seen myself most of the gifts he received were late in his career after most of his best work had been done.

 

koki kameda

 

ottke!

 

Eubank
Ali
Ottke

...are obvious ones. Karl Mildenberger was meant have benefited from some howlers too.

 

How about the Tapia fights? Tapia dominated in the rematch & still "lost" the decision! Incredible!

 

He didn't benefit from too many out and out robberies, but Emile Griffith got plenty of decisions go his way which could have easily gone to the other guy at MSG.