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By Cliff Rold - Paulie Malignaggi warned all week the deck was stacked against him. He went out and fought a hell of a fight anyways. Then the scores were read with the best of them saved for last. Gale Van Hoy’s 118-110 score in favor of Juan Diaz is a candidate for worst scorecard of the year if not the decade. After the fight, HBO’s Max Kellerman talked about elements of the marketplace, or the idea of a hometown draw getting the benefit of the doubt in close ones. [details]
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Paul got ripped off.Comment
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i'm from dallas tx. a few friends and i watched the fight, and all of us thought paulie did enough to win. i'm imbarrased to say that this fight happend in texas. if i was a fighter..... i'd never fight here.Comment
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What happened last Saturday is a disgrace for boxing. There are many arguments about boxing is going down and other sport events taking over boxing. Who are the responsible about what is happening? Number one, just to start, too many boxing bodies which are destroying boxer by sucking with high fees, making 2-3 champions in the same weight or category, and not carrying the rules in an objective way, just the way they want in specific day or moment. Another reason is, possible because too many bodies organism, you have champions fighting with taxi drivers and journey men, making events not attractive for the fans. Also boxer which should not be fighting in a ring, refuse to fight another boxers because they know will lose if they fight. Big example about this Gayweather, then the irresponsible boxing writers chooses him to be the best, making less competitive when a boxer can be fighting the best in their weight class. For the last and not less important, we have scrupulous judges that they choose to win those one instructed to them. I do not know what the hell these people are doing in an important position which is to decide the winner of a boxing match. Adding to that then we have the promoters which put pressure to state boxing commission to choose who are going to be the judges for that fight. With that action some people are destroying boxing little by little, destroy the life and the future for a possible father which needs to earn money to raise their children. Texas Boxing Commission can start a positive initiative by calling that Saturday fight under investigation, assign neutral judges from cities not associate with Houston (close), which could decided in an objective weight, who are the real winners for the fight. It’s time to do something for boxing in a positive way, we are humans with brains, which we supposed to think correctly and we can be distinguished with the animal population. Paul Malignaggi won this fight by unanimous decision 115-113, no question about it, just in the eyes of the people of Houston and the three disgraced, miserable and piece of garbage JUDGES. All of them, especially the one scored
118-110 should be banned from working with any state judging any sport events, I believe they do not have any type of healthy cells in the brain
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