Holy ****. I have seriously been losing respect for Dwyer over the last year or so, but this is nuts. He gave the fight to Williams based on the fact that (in his words) he didnt get knocked down, walked forward, and threw a lot. He also says not to be fooled by HBO's bias towards accurate fighters. Wow...someone with a youtube log in should link him to our "Who won the fight?" poll.
"HBO is biased towards accurate fighters"
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i bet if lampley was there he would have made it seem like williams was beating the crap out of lara. "hard left hand by williams and lara holds on to survive! how do you have it harold?"
"jim i gotta tell you paul williams gets off first every time. 8 rounds to 1 for paul the punisher williams!"
Calzaghe is white. I think Dwyer is showing favoritism for African fighters. Reminds me of a poster from Detroit here. Lara might be black but he isn't African I don't think. He's a black Cuban right? Would make more sense if Dwyer had Calzaghe beating Hopkins seeing how Calz/Hops landed few punches. Williams/Lara was like Calzaghe/Hopkins except Lara clearly lands alot of his punches.
hopkins did land a lot of clean shots compared to calzaghe at least.compared to gatti/ward no he didn't land that much but in boxing all you have to do is be better than your opponent on that night and he was.
it was basically the same fight stylistically just hopkins/calz was more boring. williams and calzaghe came forward throwing a ton but not landing anything clean. lara and hopkins picked their spots and played good defense by deflecting everything then resetting.
the differences were that hopkins got tired towards the end so that made it closer and calzaghe had the entire crowd screaming for him the entire fight every time he hit air. that makes a big difference in perception and obviously influenced the judges and commentators. if the crowd was screaming every time williams threw a lot of people would think it was a much closer fight.
Holy ****. I have seriously been losing respect for Dwyer over the last year or so, but this is nuts. He gave the fight to Williams based on the fact that (in his words) he didnt get knocked down, walked forward, and threw a lot. He also says not to be fooled by HBO's bias towards accurate fighters. Wow...someone with a youtube log in should link him to our "Who won the fight?" poll.
This guy gives black dudes a lot of love for obvious reasons.
If anyone hasn't seen the Week of Fight video for Wlad vs Haye you really need to go have a look. He compares Haye to Ali and Gandhi. He also blamed Wlad for not doing enough in the post fight video.
Some of the sh1t he said didn't make sense to me. He said something like "Williams is the favorite in Atlantic City" so he should take the close/tied rounds. I'm maybe accept that close rounds should go to the champion but the favorite or hometown favorite. Judging should be objective and unbiased; this premise is clearly not..
Lara I feel is gonna have a very good career with this performance. There are quite a few fights ahead for him considering that he was ROBBED like this.
14y ago
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