The Definition of a "Robbery"

Robbery is any high stakes fight that isn't scored properly, if the wrong guy won or drew that's wrong robbery either way.

I have 3 ways of viewing when a decision doesn't match my scorecard In some cases, a fight is so close, that it could easily go either way. In these fights, I just accept the official result. For example, I had JMM edging Pac in II and III (BTW I had Pac winning I). I just accept the official result. If I think a result is clear, than I consider it a bad decision, and do not accept the result in my head. I would say Kovalev - Ward to be a bad decision -- almost a robbery. I mean conceivably, if you gave all the close rounds to Ward, you could get to 114-113 Ward, but I just cant accept it. A robbery to me is when there is just no way the decision is possible. Pac - Bradley I was a robbery. I thought Oscar - Tito was a robbery too, even I despise Oscar and was a big Tito fan.

A robbery is when the guy daggum wants to win, takes an L

Do people consider Oscar vs Tito to be a robbery? Borderline probably. I do. I remember watching that, rooting for Tito Trinidad (because I hated Oscar) and STILL thinking that Oscar won like 9 rounds This statement contradicts the next. Do you understand why Bradley even got close to beating Manny, much less beating him? It's quite simple, and anyone who really watched it saw the same. In 7 of the rounds Manny basically didn't show up until like the last minute of the round. The first two, he was coasting and largely inactive. Tentative. It's the same thing that cost him the fight against TBE. This is a guy who literally swarmed Miguel Cotto. Who danced around Margacheato. Where was that guy? That fight wasn't a robbery. It was a joke - because Manny didn't show up. Now, let's see some REAL robbery examples. Soto/Lorenzo 1 Lewis/Holyfield 1 Broner/Malignaggi Lara/Williams Garcia/Hererra Hopkins/Calzaghe (arguably) Only the last one is debatable. The rest are CLEAR examples of robberies. Especially Lara/Williams. There's simply no other answer on that one. It wasn't a contradiction, maybe you misunderstood what I was saying, or I worded it wrong. What I was saying is that, unless a guy basically dominates a 10 or 12 round fight winning the overwhelming majority of rounds, which would be 7 rounds (in a 10 round fight) or 8 rounds (in a 12 round fight), then it's not a robbery. I didn't mean that you had to literally win 10 or 12 rounds in order for it to be a definitive robbery

This statement contradicts the next. Do you understand why Bradley even got close to beating Manny, much less beating him? It's quite simple, and anyone who really watched it saw the same. In 7 of the rounds Manny basically didn't show up until like the last minute of the round. The first two, he was coasting and largely inactive. Tentative. It's the same thing that cost him the fight against TBE. This is a guy who literally swarmed Miguel Cotto. Who danced around Margacheato. Where was that guy? That fight wasn't a robbery. It was a joke - because Manny didn't show up. Now, let's see some REAL robbery examples. Soto/Lorenzo 1 Lewis/Holyfield 1 Broner/Malignaggi Lara/Williams Garcia/Hererra Hopkins/Calzaghe (arguably) Only the last one is debatable. The rest are CLEAR examples of robberies. Especially Lara/Williams. There's simply no other answer on that one. manny didn't show up until the last minute where he bludgeoned bradley who had done nothing the first 2 minutes...round to bradley? Why?

I must say boxing is getting better at disguising their robberies. You could tell by the commentary who they're favoring. Then there is the skewed compubox stats. Probably the only real robberies I saw in the last few years was Lara/Williams followed by a distant Garcia/Herrera.

On NSB a robbery is when a fighter you want to win a fight loses, regardless of how ridiculous it sounds.....thread/

From a boxing perspective a robbery is a fight where one man clearly wins a lopsided fight but the opponent is given a draw or the win. On NSB certain posters call it a robbery anytime someone named Ward, Floyd or Broner pulls out a close win no matter who the opponent is. Sweet Pea v Ramirez is a robbery. Ward kov isn't a robbery.

Do people consider Oscar vs Tito to be a robbery? Borderline probably.

i think it's pretty simple. if you can't make a coherent argument that a fighter scored enough points to get the W, and he gets the W, it's a robbery.

Walters-Sosa is a prime example of a robbery, Walters won every round but it was ruled a draw

If the fighter you wanted to win loses by decision. Thats a robbery.