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August 24, 12:48 PMNY Boxing ExaminerMichael Marley
What city has so much shame in its game?
When it comes to boxing, I’d have to rank Houston as the home of the dumbest fight fans.
They take the cake, I’m talking about all 50 states.
The 7,000 or so folks who gathered at the Toyota Cernter Saturday to hero worship hometown boy Juan “Baby Bull” Diaz wouldn’t know a left hook from a fish hook.
And these cheerleaders posing as boxing fans proved it by their lack of cheers and idiotic jeers for Brooklyn’s Paulie Malignaggi after he gave them a great show with his jabbing, prancing and dancing effort against the always overrated Diaz.
Talk about sportsmanship, talk about showing some class...these imbeciles, and I hate to insult imbeciles, showed zero in either department.
Imagine what these chumps would've done had Malignaggi gotten the decision.
Malignaggi’s rectal area was sore after he caught the short end of a ridiculous decision, particularly the lopsided 118-110 vote by veteran judge Gale Van Hoy.
Read my exclusive interview with the 75 year old Texas arbiter who freely admits that his 8-4 in rounds tally for Diaz was off the mark.
Human error, Van Hoy says. Oscar de la Hoya’s criticism of me was not wrong, I was, says Van Hoy. I’m not infallible, says Van Hoy.
Give Van Hoy credit for facing the music but I blame Texas commission chief ****ie Cole for being a stubborn mule and installing his son Laurence Cole as referee in two of the three TV bouts and bringing in Raul Caiz Sr. from California and Dave Sutherland of next door Oklahoma to work the Diaz bout.
Old King Cole played the donkey role despite preflight warnings of a stacked deck by Maliganggi. The New Yorker cried before the officiating milk was spilled.
Caiz’s score of 115-113 Diaz matched mine but he, too, should not have been selected due to Malignaggi’s preflight complaints. Sutherland at 116-112 Diaz was slightly askew but he dropped the ball bigtime in the Ishe Smith-Danny Jacobs bout, turning in a total 10 round shutout for Jacobs when Smith clearly won two or three rounds.
None are so blind as…
Real fight fans would’ve hooted at that 118-110 score.
Real fight fans would’ve saluted and cheered visitor Malignaggi for a gutsy, noble effort.
Once again the case for a national or federal boxing commission has been made. Given the depressed economic conditions we’re in, I doubt we will ever see such an august body formed.
Van Hoy, who was criticized by name by Malignaggi, before the fight, turned in an extremely dumb scorecard.
But, next to those clowns who came to the arena disguised as boxing fans, he looks like an Everlast Einstein.
At least Van Hoy admits he was wrong.
Do you know the difference between H-Town boxing fans and a box of rocks?
Neither do I.
If Diaz wants to man up, he’ll give Malignaggi a rematch instead of looking to fight the completely shot Ricky Hatton.
I doubt Diaz and his enablers will ever want that, knowing Malignaggi would do better and Diaz would do worse.
If, by some miracle (HBO insists?) it happens, I can think of 49 states it might be held.
After this show and past cards with odious decisions, I’m calling it the Lone Scar State.
What city has so much shame in its game?
When it comes to boxing, I’d have to rank Houston as the home of the dumbest fight fans.
They take the cake, I’m talking about all 50 states.
The 7,000 or so folks who gathered at the Toyota Cernter Saturday to hero worship hometown boy Juan “Baby Bull” Diaz wouldn’t know a left hook from a fish hook.
And these cheerleaders posing as boxing fans proved it by their lack of cheers and idiotic jeers for Brooklyn’s Paulie Malignaggi after he gave them a great show with his jabbing, prancing and dancing effort against the always overrated Diaz.
Talk about sportsmanship, talk about showing some class...these imbeciles, and I hate to insult imbeciles, showed zero in either department.
Imagine what these chumps would've done had Malignaggi gotten the decision.
Malignaggi’s rectal area was sore after he caught the short end of a ridiculous decision, particularly the lopsided 118-110 vote by veteran judge Gale Van Hoy.
Read my exclusive interview with the 75 year old Texas arbiter who freely admits that his 8-4 in rounds tally for Diaz was off the mark.
Human error, Van Hoy says. Oscar de la Hoya’s criticism of me was not wrong, I was, says Van Hoy. I’m not infallible, says Van Hoy.
Give Van Hoy credit for facing the music but I blame Texas commission chief ****ie Cole for being a stubborn mule and installing his son Laurence Cole as referee in two of the three TV bouts and bringing in Raul Caiz Sr. from California and Dave Sutherland of next door Oklahoma to work the Diaz bout.
Old King Cole played the donkey role despite preflight warnings of a stacked deck by Maliganggi. The New Yorker cried before the officiating milk was spilled.
Caiz’s score of 115-113 Diaz matched mine but he, too, should not have been selected due to Malignaggi’s preflight complaints. Sutherland at 116-112 Diaz was slightly askew but he dropped the ball bigtime in the Ishe Smith-Danny Jacobs bout, turning in a total 10 round shutout for Jacobs when Smith clearly won two or three rounds.
None are so blind as…
Real fight fans would’ve hooted at that 118-110 score.
Real fight fans would’ve saluted and cheered visitor Malignaggi for a gutsy, noble effort.
Once again the case for a national or federal boxing commission has been made. Given the depressed economic conditions we’re in, I doubt we will ever see such an august body formed.
Van Hoy, who was criticized by name by Malignaggi, before the fight, turned in an extremely dumb scorecard.
But, next to those clowns who came to the arena disguised as boxing fans, he looks like an Everlast Einstein.
At least Van Hoy admits he was wrong.
Do you know the difference between H-Town boxing fans and a box of rocks?
Neither do I.
If Diaz wants to man up, he’ll give Malignaggi a rematch instead of looking to fight the completely shot Ricky Hatton.
I doubt Diaz and his enablers will ever want that, knowing Malignaggi would do better and Diaz would do worse.
If, by some miracle (HBO insists?) it happens, I can think of 49 states it might be held.
After this show and past cards with odious decisions, I’m calling it the Lone Scar State.
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