Fightnews released the official scorecards and Barrovecchio scored rounds 11+12 for Froch. This is on the level of the scandalous scoring of rounds 11+12 of the DLH/Sturm fight. I´m sorry this can not happen. Maybe you can get there like DvdW, but the Italian´s scorecard is very suspicious. On a side note DvdW has scored none of the first five rounds like his colleagues.
Like I wrote in another thread I'm pretty sure Dirrells 2 big rds were the 10th and 11th not the 11th and the 12th. I'm going off of memory so maybe I'm wrong. Can someone double check this?
It is no fix. It is a punitive effort by the judges to let Dirrell know what a complete and utter disgrace he is.
The Belgian guy on the left seems to have it about right IMHO, except I'm struggling to work out how ANYONE won the first round... MTF
:: Excellent case of the judge 'most' agreeing with who would get slammed on a majority rating system which is often proposed when the topic comes up, i.e. how often the judge scores in the majority each round. I'd guess Dirrell/Froch had aspects justifying ringside judges seeing it differently than tv viewers.
I hope you aren't implying that Germany doesn't deserve its reputation of complete and utter corruption. I am not a flag waiver either. The USA has plenty of bad decisions. Strum/DLH was one of the worst I have seen. Arthur Abraham gets a point deduction from his opponents in most of hi sfights. Arthur Abraham got his jaw broken and was FUCKING treated in the ring and allowed to continue.Abraham was stopped and given 5 point deductions, one for a "Fro"butt. Lamon Brewster had to knock out Luan Krasniqi two times in the same fight. We won't even get into the judging.I can't think of fights like these in the USA. Abraham and Krasniqui were both stopped and allowed to continue. German= corrupt refs, corrupt officials. If your point is that Germany is not alone, I agree. Texas is a corrupt state. Germany stands alone in the depth and breadth of its corruption in boxing. It is a farce. Please see Ottke, Sven
I like how Germany gets blamed for corrupt refs and corrupt officials when it is never German refs or German judges who get criticized. Hell, a lot of times it is USA officials in Germany that are used to show Germa bias which shows how ridiculous it is. In the USA, otoh, it is almost always USA judges and refs who fuck up when a foreigner gets screwed over. Of course, in the USA, if the fight is in Florida and the judge is from New York, we consider that to be good enough to avoid any sense of bias.
I still remember Lopez v Ayala. Thats the best example I can remember of a fighting having to be KOed multiple times to finally get an L.
