Which victim of a score card robbery did you feel most sorry for ?

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Whittaker vs Chavez.

Should have been the defining victory for Whittaker, who utterly showed Chavez up.

The fact that a draw comes across as a robbery shows you how bad it was.

 

Jose Armando Santa Cruz vs. Joel Casamayor


Santa Cruz won that fight by a lot....8 or 9 rounds easily...but got robbed.


I would pick a more meaningful fight or elite fighters, but those guys would fight on and have other chances to be champions or make millions $$$...but Santa Cruz fought the fight of his life won it easily...just to get rob.

 

Norton crying after the third Ali fight is one that sticks in my mind- I'm just not sure he was robbed ::

 

Dale Brown/O'Neil Bell... just because I know and really like Dale. We have talked about that fight a few times and even though he tries to brush it off, you can tell how badly he was hurt by not winning that belt.

 

Navarro/Kawashima, for the same reasons.

 

Glen Johnson (pick the fight) for similar reasons.

 

Yeah, but in retrospect, I don't feel as bad for Glen because he'll always be able to say he's the former light heavyweight champion.

Guys like Dale and Jose will never get that chance. It was stolen from them and it's over now. That's gotta be tough to swallow.

 

Fine, be that way.

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Fine. Glen Johnson, too.

 

Ali felt he was.

 

Roy Jones at the Olympics.

end of thread.

 

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agREED...

Having LOSELY Dabbled in the BUSINESS Side of Boxing, REED Now has an Idea of just How Much Even ONE World Title or MEANINGFUL Win Can Do for a Guy FINANCIALLY...In Particular, Spending Time w/Emanuel Augustus, who is Completely OBLIVIOUS to How Well RESPECTED he is in Boxing Circles...When REED Tried to Elaborate on the Level of TRUE Fandom he had, Augustus Politely Thanked REED but Quickly Reminded that Love, Respect, Fandom & Adoration Did NATHAN for his Wallet...

Bringing it Back to Your Point, Santa Cruz DOMINATED Casa, yet the Record Books NOR Santa Cruz's WALLET Will EVER Reflect it...

Boxing's a Beautifully SHITTY Business Sometimes...


REED:mj:

 

Eubank-Watson. If Watson had been given the W in the first fight as he should have done, the second fight (and all that came with it) arguably never happens...

MTF

 

this. that was just ridiculous.

santa cruz/casa was pretty bad, too.

 

I love Emanuel, but isn't this the same guy who's a self-professed heavy duty pothead, and took a dive one time over in Europe?

He's as much to blame for his lack of success as anybody.

 

By the way, I felt pretty bad for Augustus after the Micky Ward fight.

Not the fact that he lost, because it was close and could have gone either way..........but after hearing the scorecards and knowing he was given absolutely no chance to win going into the fight.

 

Tiberi against Toney

Brodie against Jorrin

Medina against Tapia

 

I can understand Dale Brown - but Navarro had four shots at winning a belt and came up empty. Not really one and the same - and not helping matters is that for all of DiBella's bellyaching, he didn't have any problem continuing to send him overseas and collecting his promoter's cut for basically delivering an opponent.

 

I know this sounds kinda crazy - but DLH against Tito. Yes, he brought it on himself - and I agree - but that's kinda what made me feel sorry for him. You can see the mixture of 'oh fuck what have I done' along with the outrage. He knew that not only had he been robbed but he'd sacrificed allot of his reputation while winning. The worst moments are when you know you've really done something stupid and alienated people.

 

I was glad Tito won (was rooting for him) but Oscar was slightly robbed to be fair. At the very least, even if Oscar didn't actually win 7 rounds, he was the better fighter that night. Trinidad didn't do shit but follow him around.

 

Which is the story of Trinidad against every elite fighter he faced :kidcool:

As for the topic.

Hmm, gotta say Roy in the olympics. Utterly insane decision. The other guy barely won 10 seconds of any round, most bizarre thing I've ever seen. How can corruption be so blatant with no repercussions?

There have been quite a few fighters more recently that I've felt sorry for after getting robbed, I just can't think who ::

 

I think there were repercussions for the judges in that case from what I remember.

Corrupt Korean Cunts! issed:

 

Lennox against Holy. After all those years of being mocked and sidelined he would have deserved the ultimate revenge. The sympathy he got world over didn't make up for it

 

dianzo vs ayala

glen johnson vs daniel judah was shitty, in a winner take all fight.

 

Funny...I'm a big Lewis fan and rooted for him to beat Holy but I wasn't sad that he was robbed.

That was a boring stinker of a fight. Neither fighter deserved to win that snoozefest.

 

True. My point basically is Navarro can never call himself a former title holder. He earned the right to do so.

But yeah, I really only care because he's the first fighter and first person I ever interviewed, and I was in touch with his team quite a bit for a few years there.

 

Even as a longtime Joan Guzman apologist, I genuinely felt bad for how everything turned out for Ali Funeka. His testing positive for diuretics in the rematch helped cushion the blow, but he was outright jerked in their first fight and even Guzman's people thought the fight should've been stopped in the 10th, never mind that the fight resulted in a draw.