The WORST crowd ever! Big fights shouldn’t happen in Saudi!

[dan-b]

But this crowd clearly don’t care about boxing so why do they get these big fights ahead of YOU AND ME who have paid so much money towards these fighters.

Plus the crowd atmosphere is part of the occasion and the fight.

How do you know they "clearly don't care"? It's the same in Japan and they have a thriving boxing tradition. Most of the "atmosphere" in UK and US crowds come from drunken ignoramuses whooping and hollering.

[Mr Giggles]

How do you know they "clearly don't care"? It's the same in Japan and they have a thriving boxing tradition. Most of the "atmosphere" in UK and US crowds come from drunken ignoramuses whooping and hollering.

Where’s the noise, where’s the PASSION. If that round 9 and 10 happened here in the uk that arena would have been electric.

And there was no sweet Caroline before the fight, which gets everyone pumped up and builds the fight adrenaline

I was at the first fight and the atmosphere was ELECTRIC, now I’ll have to spend hundreds and hundreds to fly over to UAE and just sit there casually making no noise

[Tom Joad]

There was a lot of problems with the fights in that country last night - a 4 minute round, slippery ring, bad judging - tho that last one is the rule not the exception in boxing.

[Tom Joad]

I like it when the crowd isn't loud. It helps me score the rounds better and I'm sure it helps the judges as well. Besides the atmosphere just feels calmer without a crowd.

No, it didn't help the judges.

Charlie Zelenoff!?

[dan-b]

There was a lot of problems with the fights in that country last night - a 4 minute round, slippery ring, bad judging - tho that last one is the rule not the exception in boxing.

The slippery ring problem became obviously early, but they failed to start drying it between each round until late in the card. They need to be more proactive in future rather than waiting until it becomes a problem.

[Tom Joad]

Clearly it didn’t help the judges as one had it for AJ, one of the worst scorecards ever

Also Popeye the Sailor Man Perez was robbed. And the first fight, the Saudi fighter vs the Argentine, premature stoppage if not a dive.

[Tom Joad]

The slippery ring problem became obviously early, but they failed to start drying it between each round until late in the card. They need to be more proactive in future rather than waiting until it becomes a problem.

Zhang could have been seriously hurt the way he fell. It was the slippery big lettering they put on the floor that was causing it.

[Charlie Zelenoff]

No, it didn't help the judges.

Charlie Zelenoff!?

Yeah. Hearn clearly bout off one of the judges.