The List: The 10 Worst Decisions in Boxing History

[SBleeder]

8-4 if you're being generous. I had it 9-3 for Pacquiao so yeah it's a robbery, though there have been even worse robberies this year.

Poet

What's your personal threshold for labeling a decision as a "robbery"?

For me, I think the losing fighter has to take 9 rounds of 12 clearly (or 12 rounds of 15).

I gave Chavez 2 rounds against Whitaker, with one round even, and the other 9 to Whitaker without a doubt.

[StarshipTrooper]

What's your personal threshold for labeling a decision as a "robbery"?

For me, I think the losing fighter has to take 9 rounds of 12 clearly (or 12 rounds of 15).

I gave Chavez 2 rounds against Whitaker, with one round even, and the other 9 to Whitaker without a doubt.

My threshold is if one fighter clearly wins and it isn't a close fight then it's a robbery. A fight that could be scored even or a point or two in either direction isn't a robbery.

Poet

[Scott9945]

My threshold is if one fighter clearly wins and it isn't a close fight then it's a robbery. A fight that could be scored even or a point or two in either direction isn't a robbery.

Poet

I think the term "bad decision" or "questionable decision" fits well between reasonable decision and "robbery". Mayweather-Castillo I and Williams-Martinez I were questionable decisions but definitely not robberies. Casamayor-Santa Cruz was an outright robbery.

[IronDanHamza]

I think the term "bad decision" or "questionable decision" fits well between reasonable decision and "robbery". Mayweather-Castillo I and Williams-Martinez I were questionable decisions but definitely not robberies. Casamayor-Santa Cruz was an outright robbery.

I agree.

You have close fights like Mayweather-Castillo 1 and Williams-Martinez 1 where a lot of people feel that the losers (Castillo and Martinez) should have won but it's an obvious close fight that you could argue for the winner.

I personally scored the Castillo-Mayweather fight for Mayweather but I scored Martinez-Williams for Martinez.

I don't consider those robberies.

Even though I gave Bradley 5 rounds on Saturday (Being generous to be honest) I still consider that fight a robbery because I can't see any way you can give him more than 5 rounds. Giving him 5 rounds is being generous and giving him every benefit of the doubt.

On the flipside, it wasn't a crazy, outright robbery where the "loser" of the fight's wins literally 10 of 12 clearly or 13 of 15 clearly like Harold Johnson-Willie Pastrano of Whitaker-Ramirez.

[titanium]

If Augustus-Coutney Burton was a big fight, it might have made the list.

[banburner]

If Augustus-Coutney Burton was a big fight, it might have made the list.

That was horrible, the referee was in on it as well. Warning for showboating.

Atlas' rant at the end was interesting though.