Home Cooking--Worst Thing in Boxing

[physiker]

If you are a German, or Eastern European fighting in Germany, you can hardly lose unless your opponent KOs you (especially if you hold a belt). Hell was that Robin Reid that was told not to throw punches against Ottke?

If you are fighting a British belt-holder in Britain, you cannot win unless you KO him. You can have a massive cut like Barrera against Khan and they will let it go on, and a minor cut like McCloskey will have different rules if it happens in a later round.

Ward makes sure to fight in his home base in Cauli-fornia. He can head butt you to death there.

Bute and Pascal in Canada. Bute v Andrade I with what the ref did was a travesty.

Home cooking may be fun for the fans in the seats there, but on TV for the rest of the world, it sullies boxing.

Home cooking is probably the worst thing in boxing today.

Can it be countered by the opponent insisiting on foreign refs and judges?

Or does money talk?

[physiker]

A related matter is that people blame boxers for not wanting to travel to fight.

SInce they know the home cooking they would face, how can we blame them?
It is the system that has prevented some great fights from happening.

[The Hammer]

The worst current example of this is the one you didn't mention: Andre Ward, who needs crooked home California Boxing Commission referees like Jack Reiss who allow him to hit while holding, hit on the break, and DELIBERATELY headbutt his opponents.

[physiker]

The worst current example of this is the one you didn't mention: Andre Ward, who needs crooked home California Boxing Commission referees like Jack Reiss who allow him to hit while holding, hit on the break, and DELIBERATELY headbutt his opponents.

Thanks. But it is there: "Ward makes sure to fight in his home base in Cauli-fornia. He can head butt you to death there."