The List: The 10 Worst Decisions in Boxing History

[Scott9945]

Ali - Young could get a mention.

Yes, that was a bad decision. But I think Young's negative style cost him a lot of sympathy for it.

[SBleeder]

Author of that link hasn't watched boxing before 1990 apparently. Plenty of worse decisions from the older times.

[IronDanHamza]

No mention of Johnson-Pastrano

Kaydo have you rewatched the fight yet?

[SCtrojansbaby]

It's even harder to win a fight when you are being outlanded 10-1 and you never come close to hurting your opponent. Backwards or forwards, effective punching is always the bottom line.

Whitaker certainly landed more but they were mostly jabs and body punches very few clean power punches to the head and the few that he did land didn't have any effect. If you want to win a round decisively you're going to need to need to hurt your opponent or at least stand your ground.

[JAB5239]

Whitaker certainly landed more but they were mostly jabs and body punches very few clean power punches to the head and the few that he did land didn't have any effect. If you want to win a round decisively you're going to need to need to hurt your opponent or at least stand your ground.

Ramirez never hurt Whitaker,and it was Pea showing all the ring generalship which IS a criteria to judging a fight....NOT "standing your ground".

[SCtrojansbaby]

That's not true and I have no idea where the hell you took it from. Look at the rules instead of making up your own.

Thats just how judges score fights. Its extremly difficult to win going back every second of the fight

[IronDanHamza]

That's not true and I have no idea where the hell you took it from. Look at the rules instead of making up your own.

Great post.

People always make up their own judging criteria when there is set criteria.

Fights are judged on - Ring generalship, effective aggression, clean effective punching and defense. That's what It's judged on, nothing else.

How many times do you hear people say "Well I judge off this" or "The way I judge it", the way YOU judge things is irrelevant. There is set criteria's on what to judge on.

[Scott9945]

Whitaker certainly landed more but they were mostly jabs and body punches very few clean power punches to the head and the few that he did land didn't have any effect. If you want to win a round decisively you're going to need to need to hurt your opponent or at least stand your ground.

And he clearly outscored Ramirez in everyone of those rounds. If Ramirez had any effective offense at all, then it would have been a different story. But he didn't.

[Killer Angel]

How about the Larry Holmes Vs Michael Spinks fight,especially the second one?I think that Holmes really got robbed in tat fight.

[StarshipTrooper]

Body punches all of a sudden don't count in scoring?

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