I have confirmed what a few posters are saying. That Paulie Malignaggi's rants on how he was going to get robbed and how the whole world was against him played a psychological role in the minds of all of you. There is a mad outcry going around not only on the judges score cards, but on how Diaz definitely, positively lost that fight. This is a fight that was supposed to be able to go either way, a close fight, but people are saying it was a robbery. The only thing that was a robbery were the judges score cards of 118-110 and maybe 116-112. But the fight itself? I dont know how you can argue that it was a closely contested bout.
This fight reminds me of the Cotto-Clottey fight. And there was not this much fuss about this fight, not this many people saying Cotto definitely lost, not this much outcry for an investigation, there are people asking if Paulie can file a lawsuit. Should Clottey have taken the Malignaggi route and speak loudly and openly enough to reach ears and hearts of people all over the world? Why not this much backing up of Clottey? He should learn from Malignaggi and throw a fit before and after his next fight because if it ends up being a close fight and he is on the losing end, at least he will have the people on his side.
Cotto vs Clottey punch stats:
Cotto- landed 179 of 723(25%)
Clottey- landed 222 of 622 (36%)
Clottey outlands Cotto by 43 punches.
Diaz vs Malignaggi punch stats:
Malignaggi- landed 191 of 949
Diaz- landed 178 of 663
Malignaggi outlands Diaz by 13 punches(if you want to call them that);
And one more thing, Cotto had a tougher time than Diaz did.
Many more people (on this site specifically) thought Cotto did enough to warrant the decision going his way and felt Clottey gave away a winnable fight.
Several people here had plenty to say about the Cotto/Clottey decision too, but overall there was less remorse for Joshua because most could see that Clottey didn't close the show properly. I had Cotto winning 114-113 FYI and couldn't really see him winning more than 6 rounds in that particular fight. The rounds Clottey won he won BIG, so I believe that made it seem like more of a landslide and led to some folk being very outraged with the decision.
I enjoy watching Diaz fight and dislike watching Malignaggi, but I felt he was the clear winner and 100% correct in everything he said after the fight. Just a bad, bad decision.
because it was clottey's fault that he lsot, he should of put more pressure on miguel especially in the last 3 rounds but he didn't and for that reason most people gave cotto the last 3 or 4 rounds giving cotto a close decision win
Cuz Clottey suffered a 1st rd flash and let the 12th rd go. Even at that, there were still mad people who felt he got a raw deal. And he did, at least accordin to the scores they gave. But the decision was ok.
I'm a huge Cotto fanatic and i always said that Clottey deserved a rematch but Cotto won. I scored it 115-113, with a huge disadvantage( a cut big like a homo's ass hole), Cotto afforded to win the most important rounds and to land big. Clottey, even though he was much more accurate, was too cautious and didn't take risks to win the important rounds. As a consequence Cotto stole rounds landing big when he was behind. That happened a lot of times( at least in 3 or 4 rounds).
SD for Cotto is not robbery by any means. 118-110 for Diaz is highway robbery. Alot of people thought Cotto won. The majority here think Malignaggi won.
The fight with Cotto alot of people scored it to cotto, and it wasnt the judges who gave the fight to Cotto it was Clottey who gave the fight to Cotto. Idk if Clottey was better than Cotto that night or if it was just the fact that Cotto was cut so early and had difficulty seeing, but Clottey shoulda won that fight but he didnt. He gave it away, Cotto knocked him down, worked the body more, and landed the harder shots! Clottey didnt push it at the end, he coulda hurt cotto but never did.
I felt wow Cotto got the decision the day before the PR parade in NY but I felt that fight was closer and thought Clottey edged it. Not to mention at least it WAS a split decision even though the other 2 cards were a bit hard to swallow. Paulie clearly won and the 2 cards were unreasonable.