Robberies and bad officiating in boxing

[MoneyMayFan]

The crowds

[Fox McCloud]

I think the theory of "repping out" applies here.

In a lot of fights, judges don't want to be the idiot who scores it incorrectly for the underdog, so they are able to justify a bad decision in their mind by saying that the guy who lost the fight but they scored it for is the better boxer overall, and it's not a big deal, because their careers will inevitably end up where they are supposed to.

Toney-Tiberi for example is deliberate bias. I mean, I can't imagine that the promoters paid off the officials for a fight that Toney was supposed to dominate... if that was the case, they have like no confidence in their prize champion. I think the judges just thought that Toney was the better fighter overall and gave it to him for that reason.

It definitely does not make it right... it's actually pretty disgusting.

[713832281]

all of the above.