What do u think was tha biggest robbery in boxing history?
I am still a teen so i never watched boxin in tha old days
but i wanna know what u people think
Was it Dempsey - Tunney II
or hagler-leonard
or trinidad-dlh
sturm-dlh
augustus-burton
marques-pacquiao
How is Tito vs. DLH, and Hagler vs. Leonard both a robbery? Makes no sense.
bc DLH schooled him. beat that crap out of him. made him look so bad. he out boxed tito in everyway possible. thats how its a robbery. also the RJJ in 88. how does roy win all 3 rounds and even beat the dude so bad the ref gave him a standing 8 count and roy still loses. beyond me. lewis holy 1 that was a robbery as much as i like holy lewis tore him up. DLH mosley 2 was a huge robbery. how they gave that fight to shane was beyond me. ruiz over golota. ruiz was down twice in the fight and really didnt win any rounds but still somehow some way won that fight. not a notible robbery but come on everyone wanted ruiz out of the HW pic bc he has to be the most boring fighter ever so thats a robbery bc that kept him around.
Worse robbery in the modern boxing. Whitaker science was sweet. The robbery left a bitter taste to the sweet science.Yeah, one of the really bad ones, pal.
Most observers believe judges Mickey Vann and Franz Marti were the culprit. They both scored it even, 115-115. The third judge, Jack Woodruff, had it for Whitaker, 115-113.
Vann was quoted by London's Daily Star after the fight as having said, "I deducted one point from Whitaker for an appalingly low blow in the sixth round. The referee did not issue a formal penalty, but I took the point from him anyway."
He apparently forgot the limits of the powers of boxing judges.
He later denied having said anything about deducting the point. The official scorecards show that it was only Vann who scored the 6th 10-9 for Chavez. The two others had it 10-9 for Whitaker.
Finally somebody got to ask this? Would there be any worst robbery in boxing history than when a judge and the ref both commited blunders to deny the rightful winner the victory with two belts and titles at stake? :D
Would you honestly believe that at the Pac/JMM fight . . . a judge can misscore a round and the ref didn't deduct a point after so many low blow warnings? Until now I'm still shock that the boxing bodies and boxing commision involve didn't lift a finger to correct that result and infact denied the protest from
team Pac for "lack of merit". :D :p
The degree of worseness depends on what is at stake in the fight . . . I believe.
Watch out for the idiot dude
:p
wenever Lamotta lost against Robinson it was a robbery, fuckin guy would knock robinson down numerous times and lamotta would never feel the canvas but would still lose :@:@:@:@
Hearns /Leonard
Whitaker/ChavezAbout Whitaker-Chavez:
"There was a general let down; Julio did not live up to expectations. He was supposed to lose three or four rounds and then wipe the guy out. In Mexico, seven out of ten newspapers agreed that Whitaker was robbed, and maybe eight of ten people believe Whitaker won." --Fernando Paramo of the Los Angeles-based La Opinion, quoted in an article written by Steve Farhood, The Ring, January 1994.
The Ring scored the fight: 117-111, Whitaker, giving Whitaker rounds 2 to 8, as well as the 10th and 11th.
i agree with some of you that a close fight is not "robbery"....someone is always going to see something opposite of what you see....no one agrees in boxing...just face it
Interesting to see what you guys believe constitutes a "robbery"....De La Hoya vs. Tito was a close fight which I had Oscar winning by 2 rounds, easily there is room for conflict being so that the fight was a Majority Decision for Tito, bottom line a close fight is not a robbery....As for Leonard vs. Hagler, I had Leonard winning by 1 round and that fight too was a split decision so if I can find 6 or 7 rounds to give to Leonard i'm sure another human being who judges for a profession can do the same......Robbery is Jones vs. Si-Hun (amateurs) and how about Ricardo Williams vs. Abdullaev in the gold medal bout in 2000, maybe 10-15 punches weren't even counted for Williams Jr., professional robbery was Sturm vs. De La Hoya in which Sturm could have won 9 rounds in anybody's view, also in my opinion I believe that Whitaker vs. De La Hoya was highway robbery but that was aided by the dumbest WBC rule in the history of sports rule where the fighter who is uncut after an accidental headbutt gets a point taken away.
Though I have not seen the fight.....those who witnessed it say that TYRONE EVERETT-ALFREDO ESCALERA is the worst decision in boxing history.
Everett won at least 10 of the 15 rds....& really clowned & battered Escalera. Only to get jobbed.
You all should Google their names...see if you find anything.