How close was Jones vs Hopkins 1?

[markusmod]

What if the judge wasn't on the take and was just a sucky judge? We've seen plenty of fights where there were horrible decisions, everyone knew it and nobody in charge of boxing did anything about it. So why not do something about it when it's obvious someone did a crappy job. In any other profession when someone does a crappy job, they get punished by being suspended and eventually fired, so why not when it comes to judging fights?

It's been happening a bit now, with judges being suspended.

[Willie Pep 229]

What if the judge wasn't on the take and was just a sucky judge? We've seen plenty of fights where there were horrible decisions, everyone knew it and nobody in charge of boxing did anything about it. So why not do something about it when it's obvious someone did a crappy job. In any other profession when someone does a crappy job, they get punished by being suspended and eventually fired, so why not when it comes to judging fights?

That I agree with - get rd of them - but no other sport reverses decisions -- a few years back where a basketball red admitted he took money to levy fouls -- they didn't couldn't change the results.

we agree about all of the problem I just can't see any realistic way to reverse a decision.

Our current sense of humanity rules out the only guaranteed fixes - fights to the fnish or make ******** illegal.

Right! Neither will ever happen again in our lufetime.

[Anthony342]

That I agree with - get rd of them - but no other sport reverses decisions -- a few years back where a basketball red admitted he took money to levy fouls -- they didn't couldn't change the results.

we agree about all of the problem I just can't see any realistic way to reverse a decision.

Our current sense of humanity rules out the only guaranteed fixes - fights to the fnish or make ******** illegal.

Right! Neither will ever happen again in our lifetime.

But if there was some shenanigans in a horse race, a decision is changed. Ben Johnson has his gold medal taken away in the Olympics. Do the same for the pros. Again, just do the right thing. There is a realistic way. If one fighter clearly was screwed. Have a commission overturn a crappy decision and get rid of that judge, like in Holyfield-Lewis 1. Or even all the judges involved. Like that pitcher who got screwed out of a perfect game on that crappy first base call where the umpire clearly got it wrong. Jim Joyce the umpire even admitted to getting the call wrong later. Bud Selig, the commissioner at the time refused to overturn the call when he had the power to do so. It seems to get down to nobody having any balls and wanting to be first the one to make the change. So while it won't happen again, my point is it should.

[QueensburyRules]

- -Olympics as crooked as it gets...

[Dr. Z]

Roy won easy he was too fast for Hopkins.

[LeOoze]

Didn't find this fight close at all

[OctoberRed]

Didn't find this fight close at all

Neither did I.

[Willie Pep 229]

Neither did I.

H-J 1 put me sleep - never saw two fighters spend so much time posing in front of each other without fighting. A stinker!

Early on Hopkins found Jones too fast and too strong so he refuse to engage. Jones then chose to accept the decision, and refused to move forward. That was in the fourth round. So we got eight rounds of two posers posing in front of each other refusing to fight.

[QueensburyRules]

H-J 1 put me sleep - never saw two fighters spend so much time posing in front of each other without fighting. A stinker!

Early on Hopkins found Jones too fast and too strong so he refuse to engage. Jones then chose to accept the decision, and refused to move forward. That was in the fourth round. So we got eight rounds of two posers posing in front of each other refusing to fight.

- - Roy broke his hand and beat Poppy one handed.

Poppy ducked the timely rematch before backing out yet again of gentlemen's agreement to fight the winner of Green/Jones to somehow look even more worse and sissy when he squalled and bawled his way through Jones. Guess Poppy must be p4p #1 Sissy in boxing history.

[Nash out]

It was a boring fight. Hopkins was a late bloomer, and we saw when he developed that he schooled RJJ in the rematch. Calzaghe deserved more credit for beating absolute prime Bernard Hopkins in an absolute classic war. Nash out.