Biggest Robberies in Boxing History

[dde91]

"Those fights in no way could be called "Robberies" They were both close fights that could have gone either way."



but you cant just give Taylor the belt because it was close. That BullSh#t. The champion should have kept the belts or it should have been a tie.

[Thread Stealer]

One of the things that has hurt boxing is highway robberies, especially when the local boy or a major name is involved. These are the 10 worst decisions that I have seen:
1. Pintor-Zarate(first horrible decision I saw as a kid. I gave Zarate 10 rounds, plus he decked Pintor).
2. Jesse Burnett-Leon Spinks(blatant robbery as Spinks had just move to the Crusierweight division)
3. Dave Tiberi-James Toney(Toney second worst performance of his career. Just a plain bad decision).
4 & 5. Toney-Montell Griffin I & II.(I thought Toney dominated both fights and got robbed)
6. Emanuel Augustus-Courtney Burton(Augustus totally dominated Burton and the decision was ridiculous!!!!!!!!!).
7. Rocky Lockridge-Wilfredo Gomez(Lockridge beat Gomez from pillar to poat for the first 7-8 rounds and while Gomez was the aggressor down the stretch, his offense was pathetic).
8. Lewis-Holyfield I(Gave Lewis 8 rounds and to this day still can't believe this fight was a draw)
9. Whitaker-Ramirez I(Whitaker boxed his pants off and the decision was a disgrace)
10. Felix Sturm-De La Hoya(Sturm beat Oscar's ass with a jab all day long. Worse than when De La Hoya was robbed against Trinidad)

If you can, try to watch the first fight between Juan Coggi and Eder Gonzalez.

That is worse than all of the above, because Coggi was actually KO'd or stopped (or DQ'd) three times in one round, but managed to win the fight.

Lewis-Holyfield I was god-awful, as Holyfield won 2-3 rounds.

Escalera-Everett was terrible. Everett got done, in his hometown, like a ******. I gave Escalera 4 of the 15 rounds.

And there's of course, Mexican Joe Rivers and Ad Wolgast.

[Grand Champ]

Holyfield vs. Lewis I

Holyfield is one of my all time greats.. But come on..

[TheGreatA]

The crowd reaction is priceless.

Personally, Floyd Patterson's decision loss to Jimmy Ellis for the WBA heavyweight title was the worst. The fight was held in Sweden where only the referee was allowed to judge the bout.

It was a great effort by an aging Patterson, the two unofficial judges on the ringside gave the fight to Patterson but the referee gave it to Ellis.

[Silencers]

Considering how highly regarded the heavyweight title was back then, Louis-Walcott 1 was one of the worst robberies in history.

[Yogi]

7. Rocky Lockridge-Wilfredo Gomez(Lockridge beat Gomez from pillar to poat for the first 7-8 rounds and while Gomez was the aggressor down the stretch, his offense was pathetic).

I watched that live when it happened, and I got to say that I've always been a little bit suprised when that fight comes up in discussions like this. I mean, sure I thought the great work Lockridge did over the first half (and some) fight should have been enough to gain him the decision win, but I thought Gomez closed it up pretty good in nearly sweeping the last five or six rounds when a tired Lockridge basically did not much at all when compared to what Gomez was doing late in the fight. I never did score it, but in a nutshell, I probably would view that as around a 9-6 type (or 8-6-1 or something) of fight for Lockridge, which wouldn't exactly standout to me as one of the worst 'hometown decisions' I've ever seen.

Ah, I don't know...Maybe it had to do with the fact that I enjoyed the fight so much (especially the first half of it, which was crazy) which sidetracks how I view that fight. Or maybe it was Lockridge's own postfight comments, which were quite classy, where he said that he thought he won, but wouldn't complain about the decision because he felt Gomez better adjusted to the heat and outclassed him late. I don't know, but as far as robberies go, I never really thought it was that bad.

[Yogi]

Evander Holyfield LDis Kevin Barry in the Olympics

But the all time worse was Roy Jones not getting the Gold medal.

I'm not sure I'd ever call the Holyfield DQ a "robbery" per se, Terry, because of the fact that the referee issued two clearly audible commands to "stop!", with Holyfield hitting Barry just as the second one was issued. If he heard the first one, then yeah, there was definate grounds to disqualify Holyfield in that fight, without question, as there was with Barry who also continued to hold and hit Holyfield after the first referee's command. Maybe the fairest decision would have been to disqualify both fighters from that fight, especially considering the nature of the fight with it being such a dirty one, including both fighters being warned on four previous occasions each for holding and hitting after the referee commanded them to break.

And the Roy Jones fight? Ah, there's been quite a few boxing decisions in the Olympics that were just as bad as that one, if not worse...Bachfeld over Gamarro in '76 was so bad that it nearly caused a riot, as did Tregubov's decision over Reggie Jones in '72. 1972 also saw the horrible robbery in Munich with Kottysch getting a ridiculous decision over Alan Minter. Albert Robinson getting DQ'd in '68 in the finals for a phantom headbutt against the host country's fighter. Sivko over Tanabe in 1960. Even 1984 had a few bad ones, including the one that was the predecessor to Roy's in '88 (Page over Kim Dong-Kil)...Lots of bad ones throughout the history of Olympic boxing, and some that were just as bad as Roy's.

[Kid McCoy]

Not the biggest robbery, but it almost was. The attempts by Don King and his underlings at the the WBC to strip Buster Douglas of the heavyweight title after beating Tyson, on the grounds of the alleged "long count" which Douglas got. They only backed down after pubic uproar and a threatened revolt among the WBC's member nations.

[Nick Fury]

Man I've noticed Emanuel Augustus gets robbed pretty often. I think he was robbed in his last fight. It's gotta be his style....but it seems people usually have trouble fighting the dude. He's like a ****ing snake.

[JulioCesaChavez]

Jmm did the impossible when he picked himself off the floor 3 times and won 11 rounds in a row clearly V Pacman. The judges that night were either gay or blind, maybe both. JMM outboxed him and exposed him clearly just like Morales did before he was shot. Pacman falls over with his left hand like some kina handicapped kid in the gym. He was in the right place at the right time V Barrera and V Morales in a rematch. I wish the Prince came back to give the bum his third KO!!! Viva Mexico.