Often times you'll hear people defend what's perceived as a bad decision by pointing out that the correct score-card should've been 7-5 in favor of the person who was on the losing end of the bad decision. And so the argument is, well in reality he only won by one round and so although the judges got it wrong, it was only a matter one or two rounds so the decision is forgivable. But often times, there's simply not 7 rounds you can reasonably award to the fighter on the winning end of the bad decision, and so the decision can accurately be called a robbery. What examples of cases like these can you think of? Do you think Diaz/Maligniaggi is a good example?
Felix Sturm vs. Oscar de La Hoya is the most blatant recent example, because Sturm kicked the fuckin shit out of DLH in the last two rounds, but lost five of six on the scorecards, so Oscar could get the needed 115-113 (3x) UD to set up the super unification bout.
Axel Schultz - George Foreman. You could give Foreman up to five rounds (from what I recall anything between 3-5 is reasonable) but Schultz definitely won seven rounds
I'll have to watch that one again. I thought most of the rounds were close though so in my mind it's not a good example, but I'll watch it again. I've heard other people claim that Vargas/Wright was a 7-5 robbery but it's another one that I think had a lot of close rounds and so I'm not sure it qualifies. I know it's been debated to death but I think PBF/Castillo I is a good example. I thought Castillo won 7 rounds clearly and probably 8. And so I can't live with the argument that it could've gone either way just because it was close in rounds.
Not 7-5, because it was only a ten rounder, but Ward-Gatti I seemed like a pretty easy fight to score watching on television, with most of the rounds being relatively straight forward. I don't remember the exact score I had, for the fight but whatever the case, there seemed to be more or less a consensus that Gatti appeared to have won the fight...even though that discussion was avoided by a lot of people, feeling it would take away from the fight, I guess.
I consider Quartey-Forrest a bigger robbery than Diaz-Paulie. Respect to the late Forrest, but he lost to Ike clearly. God only knows how they gave him the fight.
:nono: Yeah right,.. when he got the decision, you were one of the ones that 'wished he was dead' were your precise words, ....so, happy now?.
No one has said MAB-Morales II. Many left that fight believing Morales won just as many thought MAB won the first fight.
De La Hoya-Quartey No way did DLH win 7 rounds. He needs 6 to win and that takes extreme, extreme generousity to him given how easy most of the rounds were to score.
That's fine. You have history on your side, but I still think Evander did enough to win, or at least keep his title.
