Damn, I forgot how badly they robbed Castillo.

[5betlight]

Its just like the guy who has the thing about Mosley being robbed against Cotto in his sig. Mosley is my favorite today and I still think he lost a close fight with Cotto. I just watched that again the other day and they both landed the same amount of punches, but Mosley threw 100 some odd punches more, which means Cotto was more accurate. What is the robbery in that? Just because a fighter won or lost a close fight does not mean the other was robbed.

I agree with you completely, but this fight was a robbery. Castillo Threw more, landed more, and he was more accurate. The power punches alone are just disgusting, 173 to only 66, and at a higher percentage as well. Yet all the judges went at least 8-4 for Floyd. That's insane.

[Dirt McGirt]

I actually watched this fight again earlier this week, and it shocks me more and more everytime how bad the scoring was. Castillo won this fight hands down, the scorecards from the judges were some of the worst I've seen. I can understand scores going either way if its a close fight, but seriously who in their right mind could come up with scores like that??

However, before Floyd fans start any bulls**t arguments, the reason Castillo won this fight was most likely due to Mayweather injuring his right arm. Although that wasn't Castillo's problem, and it shouldn't have changed the fact he won this fight.

[Ray*]

**** cant we get a break from dumb threads lke this??

[sweetpea87]

I agree with you completely, but this fight was a robbery. Castillo Threw more, landed more, and he was more accurate. The power punches alone are just disgusting, 173 to only 66, and at a higher percentage as well. Yet all the judges went at least 8-4 for Floyd. That's insane.

I see what you mean. It's like how do some judges still have jobs when they score really close fights like this a one sided victory for one figher. You would think we were still in the old days where fights could be fixed no problem.

[ShermanKlump]

Close fights can never be robberies. What makes them robberies are the scorecards like you just mentioned, they should have been much closer even if they had Mayweather winning. It was just like Diaz-Malignaggi, I had Paulie winning close but wouldn't have argued the decision if the scorecards would have been close, but they were by wide margins just like this fight.

Only one scorecard was off the rest were good, there was only one controversial scorecard.

[dolfan2909]

nah it wasn't all that close actually...i had it 115-111 for floyd...the compubox stats for that fight were so far from reality it's not even funny...they must of been counting castillo's grazing punches or the body punches that floyd was clearly catching...plus castillo was 9 lbs heavier and the supposed bigger puncher yet he looked much more beat up than floyd after the fight not to mention floyd got robbed of a knockdown and that extra point...all in all floyd easily won but castillo fought a really good fight

[-EX-]

Until Floyd retires for good people won't stop bringing this fight up

[el malo]

In Mayweather's first fight with Castillo, I thought they robbed him when I first saw it, but over time I decided it was a close fight that could have gone either way. I just watched it again today, and GODDAMN they robbed him. One of the worst robberies of the decade.

Scores: 116-111 Mayweather | 115-111 Mayweather | 115-111 Mayweather

Punch Stats
Castillo - Landed: 203 Thrown: 506 Pct: 40%
Mayweather - Landed: 157 Thrown: 448 Pct: 35%
Power Punches
Castillo - Landed: 173 Thrown: 377 Pct: 46%
Mayweather - Landed: 66 Thrown: 151 Pct: 44%

yeah that was one of the worse robberies of all time. most people think it was close but with scores like 116-111 Mayweather | 115-111 Mayweather | 115-111 Mayweather it shows how bad of a robbery it was. hbo was protecting their prize fighter back then.

[Bhopreign]

I agree with you completely, but this fight was a robbery. Castillo Threw more, landed more, and he was more accurate. The power punches alone are just disgusting, 173 to only 66, and at a higher percentage as well. Yet all the judges went at least 8-4 for Floyd. That's insane.

If you go by Compubox as your end all you will fail miserably when judging fights. Castillo had numbers like that in other fights too because he was a notorious slow starter and landed more in the later rounds. This was a very close fight.

[ufirst]

I have the fight on tape and have watched it 10 times. Talking about the scoring, I've always thought Castillo should have been disqualified for combination low blows. Its funny how the commentators and I could see it but some people still can't. Not to mention that most of Castillo's body punches were blocked with Floyd's arms and the ones than landed cleanly were landed in clenches. Add to that team Castillo thought they were losing and so they were telling their guy to wrestle & throw Floyd into the corner--a testament to how cleanly they thought Castillo was hitting him; and add to that, if you want the fact that Floyd finished with one hand. Don't even know why I responded to this foolishness; Give it a rest, Floyd beat him twice...