Was Dirrell-Froch the biggest robbery of 2009?

[The_Demon]

This is what you Brits will never understand. You don't have to TAKE the title from the champion. You have to win more rounds than him. When the bell rings, it doesn't matter who the champion is. When the bell rings, pretend like you are watching two identical twins fighting each other. If you did that, 10 times out of 10 you'd see Dirrell as the winner. And please don't talk to me about holding, you are after all the country that spawned Ricky "The Hugman" Hatton.

Dirrell 116-111. 9 rounds to 3.

god bless america!

you ****in prat,making the decent fans on here look bad

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Benoist's bad score still doesn't constitute a robbery in itself, because it can be argued that neither man clearly won the fight. If, however, it was clear that Martinez had a shutout (which wasn't the case), and Williams instead got the decision, then it would be a robbery.

A true robbery is when the obvious winner of the fight doesn't get the decision. Funeka is the absolute best example of this from '09.

Sums it up

[letsgobrady]

You didn't think that was close? Come on, realistically it couldn't have gone more than a round or two either way. That's not a robbery. The scores were bad, but they could just as well have been too wide for Malignaggi as well.

i don't think that there was no way diaz won that fight the best he could have gotten imo was a draw

[FloydTBE]

The biggest robbery of 2009 in boxing was Ali FUneka-Joan Guzman fight. It was judged to be a Majority Draw. In my view, Funeka clearly won 8 rounds if not more.

Froch-Dirrell was not a good fight at all, dirrell was just running way from froch, and froch was trying to chase him down. I can gurantee that Froch-Kessler and Dirrell-Abraham will be two epic fights.

[icantbox]

Martinez/Cintron=Robbed of a UD and a KO in the same fight. No argument.

Paulie/Diaz 1= a fairly close fight that was ridiculously scored. I can't find a way a person can't score at least 6 rounds for paulie

Arnaoutis/Coleman=Bullcrap decision that was swept under the rug.

Funeka/Guzman=I scored it a draw and didn't remember how. Fact is I did and so did the judges.

Froch/Dirrell=One guy trying to fight (and doing well on the inside) one gay that avoided exchanges and fell to the floor when he was getting hit inside. How is that a robbery? If you listen to Gus Johnson call the fight, you might say robbery, if you didn't listen to Gus call it it was easy to score it for Froch.

[warp1432]

Martinez Cintron was worse then this. Guzman Funeka was worse then that too

[PittyPat]

i don't think that there was no way diaz won that fight the best he could have gotten imo was a draw

Well there you go. A draw is not a robbery, if it really was that close. Diaz-Malignaggi, whilst going to the wrong man IMO, was still close enough not to be called a robbery (although Van Hoy's score in itself was obviously screwin'). Malignaggi barely sc****d it, so he wasn't "robbed".

Funeka/Guzman=I scored it a draw and didn't remember how. Fact is I did and so did the judges.

Guzman being the rightful winner of that fight is the only fact going. Anyone who scores it even remotely close is blind.

[donkim]

There were three awful decisions that stood out last year.Martinez vs Cintron,funeka vs Guzman and froch vs Dirrell.


You will never hear a convincing argument as to how froch somehow deserved the decision because it's impossible to make without sounding like a moron.


Have you noticed how the froch apologists will only point to Dirrell's "negative" style and what he did wrong rather than what froch himself did right?


Anyody who can score a fight(and it's not difficult) would have scored it in Dirrell's favour by a wide margin due to Dirrell's clean effective punching.



froch was not an effective aggressor and he was not throwing or landing clean effective punches.

Diaz vs Malinaggi I for me.

You have no clue what you're talking about.Had Malignaggi not acted like a crybaby,and had the scorecards not been so ridiculously wide,you would never have had the nerve to have claimed that fight to have been a robbery.



Please do tell us how many and which rounds Malignaggi won and how he won this fight so decisively

I did score the fight for Dirrell and it's my opinion that he should have fought the whole fight like that last two rounds.

Why should he have? He outboxed froch throughout the entire fight throwing and landing the far cleaner,more effective punches.



Quite amazing that anyone would have the nerve to claim that the Dirrell-froch fight was just while completely discrediting Juan Diaz's effort in which he did actually land punches

[FloydTBE]

Funeka-Guzman was the biggest robbery in 2009

[icantbox]

Well there you go. A draw is not a robbery, if it really was that close. Diaz-Malignaggi, whilst going to the wrong man IMO, was still close enough not to be called a robbery (although Van Hoy's score in itself was obviously screwin'). Malignaggi barely sc****d it, so he wasn't "robbed".



Guzman being the rightful winner of that fight is the only fact going. Anyone who scores it even remotely close is blind.

I think you mean Funeka as the winner.

As I remember it, I scored 3 of the rounds that most scored for Funeka to Guzman based on effective body punching. He was landing solid shots to the body, but nobody ever talked about it.