I was thinking about Manny and Dlh amd they were robbed, unexpectedly, quite a few times, even though they were the money makers. I guess there is better examples though
Oscar was never robbed. He blew both the Trinidad fight and the Mosley rematch. A ROBBERY was DLH v Sturm. Strum won 8-10 rounds off the Golden Coke Head.
Still, most people tought he won both of these fights. The tito loss is more compréhensible since tito had dk and was pretty popular in his own right, but the mosley loss was weird to say the least
It evens out, because Oscar should have lost to Whitaker, Quartey, and Sturm. He was lucky more often than he was unlucky.
I guess it kinda sorta does but it's pretty strange seeing it happen to the clear #1 "A side" fighter in the entire sport. Had that been Canelo would he have dropped a decision to Trinidad or Mosley in those situations?
Kid Gavilan is remembered for receiving a number of close/debatable split decisions in his career, but he was on the receiving end of a number of egregious robberies. I thought he was clearly robbed against Saxton and Womber (both on film), and his losses to Lester Felton and Peter Waterman were both widely decried as robberies.
Was Pernell Whitaker considered the "A" side when he fought JL Ramirez? Would he be considered as sharing the A side when he fought Chavez?
Definitely not against Chavez. As great as Whitaker was he never really "A side" in terms of selling power.
Putting asses in the seats has always been important but having losses didn't matter as much either at the time.
Nope. Outside of the heavyweight division, he was the second most famous lighter weight fighter of the 50s behind Robinson.
I've read before that he was deemed the most popular none American in all of American sports at one point. People loved him. Hardly surprising, to be fair.
If Delahoya gets the decision in the Tito fight and second Mosley fight, he would be in the talk (rightly or wrongly ) of being amongst the top 20 fighters of all time. No matter what some claim, judges decision have a huge impact on a fighter's legacy and financial earning, no matter how corrupt and inept they are perceived to be.
