Wow, I'm very surprised at so many people agreeing that Valuev wasn't robbed. Albeit I watched the fight on an internet stream (thank you so much whoever it was on this forum for pointing it out!). So the video at times was a little jerky. Maybe Chagaev was lightening fast and I just missed his punches.
According to my scorecard he won 3 rounds. As I wrote in my round by round, he was 2, 3 or 10 weight divisions too small to be competitive in this fight. Was my stream that bad where I barely saw Chagaev land any punches at all in at least 6-7 of the rounds? Then just far fewer in 2-3 of them? Wasn't Chagaev hurt in the final seconds of the bout?
I actually thought it was amusing that Chagaev was trying to attack for much of the 12th round. As if he had a realistic chance of knocking Valuev out or winning. What was interesting to me was Don King at the end of the fight. Right after they finished and well before the scores were tallied, Don King said, "that was a GOOD fight, well deserved." And then he stopped himself short. I felt he knew the outcome already and was trying to pretend it wasn't a robbery. It was actually that statement, not the blatantly fake theatrics by Chagaev, that caused me to think we might be in for a robbery here.
But so many people don't think this was a robbery. So it was either the internet stream quality or my eyes that probably failed me. Maybe both...
yes squealpiggy I agree that having 7 close rounds could lead to large variances in scoring. But to me I didn't see 7 close rounds. I saw maybe 5, 2 I gave to valuev and 3 to chagaev. The rest were clearly Valuev's. Even 5 close rounds were stretching it. I thought it was very easy to score, I was never thinking too much after a round about who to give it to.
Wasn't Chagaev the one in trouble by the end of the fight? To me it seemed just that Chagaev was out of his league. Not in talent sense, but he was just fighting someone way too big.