Worst home-COUNTRY robberies

This could be renamed the "Sven Ottke thread"

Looks like a lot of people didn't understand the topic of this thread. Only ones I can recall of the top of my head are Macklin-Sturm and Ottke-Reid.

Sturm was given favorable decisions against Macklin and Murray. How many times were they going to save him? There have been plenty of bad decisions in Germany lately. Provetkin vs Huck, and Huck vs Afolabi were both bad decisions, they might not have been robberies, but they were decisions that saved the fighters that saved the losers of those fights. I'm not sure about the 2nd fight you mention, but Povetkin definitely deserved the win over Huck.

USA De la Hoya vs Felix Sturm Bradley vs Pacquiao Holyfield vs Lewis Khan vs Peterson Finland Helenius vs Chisora

Marquez vs John was one of the worst home country robberies IMO. Marquez won that fight comfortably. He landed the cleaner punches, pressed the fight, and just over all out boxed John. Even the ref knew John was losing and he deducted JMM 2 points for borderline body shots. Bad reffing, bad judging, and bad decision on the part of Marquez for taking that fight in Indonesia.

Germany isn't half as bad as it was 5-10 years ago. When was the last "robbery" decision that they had there? Look at Sturm-Geale. Felix Sturm is a beloved German home fighter and he lost a very close fight that could have gone in his favor. If Germany is so bad why didn't he get the decision? Sturm was given favorable decisions against Macklin and Murray. How many times were they going to save him? There have been plenty of bad decisions in Germany lately. Provetkin vs Huck, and Huck vs Afolabi were both bad decisions, they might not have been robberies, but they were decisions that saved the fighters that saved the losers of those fights.

germany no doubts man

I have to say USA. Based on what exactly?

Speaking of appauling hometown officiating. Check this:

I was going to mention this before I saw your post I think it was in round 4 or 5 where the ref warned Reid for landing a clean hook right on Ottke's jaw and Reid was just like WTF? That's a myth. The ref warned Reid for fouling.

:rofl: maybe i've seen this fight, but i don't think so. sounds like a must watch :lol1: I posted the link earlier. It's a great fight. Appauling officiating.

sure it is, man. ask around if you don't believe me. it's notorious for poor decisions and officiating, going back to sven ottke. if theres's an earlier reference that somebody would like to point out i'd be happy to hear it. ottke got the ball rolling on germany's rep, at least in my book. you can get away with stuff like that when you keep your guys/scene local. they've got more "one sided" type events over there. we generally ask for our top earners to fight world level opponents, whereas germans will accept a lesser tier opponent, and enjoy the hell out of it :rofl: i think it's actually getting much better as boxing over there strengthens. hernandez and ross is a good recent example of a robbery. granted, i have only seen the fight once and it was on a stream, but hernandez was rocking around the ring and pretty badly hurt. one of the judges had it 116-112, which was a total joke. I had the Hernandez-Ross fight 114-113 Hernandez. No way that was a robbery. Close fight. Ross could easlily have been DQ'ed for punching Hernandez while he was down BTW. So much for robbery there. RBR thread here: http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=565378

:rofl: maybe i've seen this fight, but i don't think so. sounds like a must watch :lol1: watch the fight and get back to me, the ref help coggi stand up and stop the fight for a while so he could recup

Germany isn't half as bad as it was 5-10 years ago. When was the last "robbery" decision that they had there? Look at Sturm-Geale. Felix Sturm is a beloved German home fighter and he lost a very close fight that could have gone in his favor. If Germany is so bad why didn't he get the decision? You know its pretty bad when we talk about the Sturm-Geale fight like its strays from the usual outcome

whenever the klitschkos fight in germany,everything is in their favour,i remember don charles(chisoras trainer)saying after the fight with vitali that when chisora was getting hand wraps wladimir was standing over him and disrupting everything and when they went to see vitali get his hands wrapped thery were already wrapped and no member of the chisora team was there and only a few officials were there, and the amount of holding wladimir does in the ring to protect his glass chin, i've never seen him get a point deduction and alot of other things and how they give out slave contracts

Argentina Gonzalez vs. Coggi :rofl: maybe i've seen this fight, but i don't think so. sounds like a must watch :lol1:

Argentina Gonzalez vs. Coggi

No it isnt. :rofl: sure it is, man. ask around if you don't believe me. it's notorious for poor decisions and officiating, going back to sven ottke. if theres's an earlier reference that somebody would like to point out i'd be happy to hear it. ottke got the ball rolling on germany's rep, at least in my book. you can get away with stuff like that when you keep your guys/scene local. they've got more "one sided" type events over there. we generally ask for our top earners to fight world level opponents, whereas germans will accept a lesser tier opponent, and enjoy the hell out of it :rofl: i think it's actually getting much better as boxing over there strengthens. hernandez and ross is a good recent example of a robbery. granted, i have only seen the fight once and it was on a stream, but hernandez was rocking around the ring and pretty badly hurt. one of the judges had it 116-112, which was a total joke.

Campillo vs Cloud and Rios vs Abril were disgusting. Reid was repeatedly deducted points for nonexistent fouls and was at one point warned by ref for punching Ottke in the face (that's not a lie, watch the fight, its that outrageous). I think the ref warned after an open-handed shot. Haye-Valuev, Cunnigham-Huck. What do you think of them? Cunningham didn't leave it in the judges hands.

As posted earlier, the worst is Coggi-Gonzalez 1. The most outrageous robbery ever. What is worse than legitimately stopping a guy or winning by DQ THREE times in a round and you are still not awarded the win?