Comments Thread For: “Fighting Words” – Bad For Boxing, Great For Business

[PacquiaoATG]

http://www.change.org/petitions/the-...o-bradley-bout

This is the official (link above) of the on-line petition to the Nevada Governor of Nevada, started by Americans. Sign in to appeal the decision of the Pacquiao-Bradley fight.

[edgarg]

yeah u gotta figure arum had the fight fixed.Who else would ave done it?

Jimmy McNutty the new conspiracy loonie on the block. Isn't it most astonishing that nobody...NOBODY except BoxingScene posters, and assorted other site drek is able to see what a low-life, fixer, briber, conniver, crook that Bob Arum is; and right in the open, under everyone's noses...... The guy is known all over the civilised world at the top promoter in boxing and yet nobody but "us-little-chickens...know about his "DARK" side...... Doing things which could have him imprisoned for 10 lifetimes....... and/or entered in The Guinness Book Of Records.....

Amazing.......

[edgarg]

About The Report From Windy City.

I always enjoy reading Greisman's work.

Not me, too repetitive, regurgitating all the news we've already seen, and far, far too alliterative. Not to mention it seems to get longer, and longer and windier every week. One thing, the "10 count" is enjoyable to me, gives news which we wouldn't ordinarily hear about, and forgets the alliteration which can rarely be used profitably more than ONCE, so every week is just ghastly.

A little bit of history' in the old days, at the beginning of the famous Pulp Magazines, threadbare writers, who were only paid 1/2 cent a word, OR LESS, used to fill up empty space with the same sort of windy verbiage to try for a decent paycheck. The editors had to be ruthless......

David is a first class reporter, probably the best on the site, erudite and accurate, but a TURGID article writer. Unfortunately, it seems that his ambition is to emit unending essays, rather than what he's good at, which is, again, reporting and data collecting.

[edgarg]

I think Bradley only connecting at a 19 % seems to have missed far more punches than Pacquiao did. Since you lack intellegence it means Bradley missed 81% of his punches

A very interesting quote has been read just now by me. Duane Ford, one of the judges said, when interviewed, than "Bradley gave Pacquiao a boxing lesson'.....

This seems to mean that the "boxing lesson"was only worth a 115-113 score. What sort of boxing lesson could that have been. This sounds like a quickly made up excuse to justify himself in full light of the aftermath of booing and hooting. Like Joe Cortez, doesn't want to admit he made a bad mistake and was in "another world, seeing other things" during the fight.

[mathed]

You forgot Bradley was in a wheelchair after the fight. LMAO!

[Dave Rado]

http://www.change.org/petitions/the-...o-bradley-bout

This is the official (link above) of the on-line petition to the Nevada Governor of Nevada, started by Americans. Sign in to appeal the decision of the Pacquiao-Bradley fight.

Unfortunately only Americans are allowed to sign. (It has a drop-down list of States and you have to pick one.)

[Dave Rado]

Com on man. This was Bradley first multi million dollars fight and all of a sudden he has the cash to pay off two judges??? Please!!! That's makes absolutely no sense what so ever. One of the judges has since stated that he felt Bradley gave your idol a boxing lesson. He also stated that Pacquiao was wild and that he missed on alot of punches which is true. I think I will go with the opinion of the professionals rather than you butt hurt pacfarts anyday. Cong**** Bradley!!

Bradley missed a far higher percentage of his punches than Pacquiao did. Bradley threw a lot more punches than Pacquiao, yet landed far less. And Pacquiao's punches were cleaner and harder than Bradley's. And the vast majority of professional boxing experts thought Pacquiao won at least 9 rounds.

Bradley showed a lot of heart and a lot of skill but you are just being silly.

[Corelone]

Vegas has always soaked suckers, that's how it works. Any time the odds are stacked on a fighter, like on Pac, and the fight is close (or not), the fix is in. The house wins and the favorite becomes a casualty of buisiness. Why would Vegas give a ref a house to work there, unless he was "paying" them back some how? Vegas has certain goals and keeping the money is high on the list. Almost everyone agrees, Pac won, but the money was too much for Vegas to pass up, so they said "screw him". It's about the money.

[b Murphington]

I didn't get a chance to see the fight, but judging from the majority's reaction as to how this fight was a robbery. I would have to say that boxing needs change.

I understand that boxing is subjective, it has to be, but that's also it's greatest weakness, as shown by the number of robberies that have occurred in recent years. I think a system should be implemented by the commission that keeps bad decisions from happening.

it should be something like a court. when a boxer feels he has been robbed of a decision, he can take it to a "court" type boxing trial and present his case, and if he can "prove" that he was robbed, the decision be overturned.

If not that, then we should increase the number of judges judging a single fight from 3 to 5. this way, there's less chance of a bad decision. u can have 2 bad scores and still have the right guy winning. this would require a larger number of judges in circulation, which could increase incompetence, but proper training can decrease this from happening.

this is just me offering some ideas as to what can be done to stop the issue with bad judging. its really not fair to the fighters, who put their lives on the line in a fight, only to be handed a loss when they've done everything right. its like what do they have to do to win? hopefully, the top guys in boxing, the commissioners and rule makers have the sense to offer some changes to the sport, cuz the way i see it, the system is broken.

[heavyhands702]

I'm a boxing fan and I don't care if other fans get turned off just because their hero gets beat. I had Bradley winning 115-113. If fans don't like it, stop watching. It's that simple. But please don't say this was a robbery.

Go back and look at round one. Manny only landed three meaningful punches at the end of the round, but the announcers say he won that round. That's ridiculous. Bradley also won rounds 2, 5, 7, 10, 11, and 12 on my scorecard.

Two two judges saw it exactly as I saw it. But to Pacfans I'm an idiot because I had Manny losing the fight. To them, everyone is an idiot if they don't see the fight as Pacfans do. My answer: just stop watching and you won't have anything to complain about.

Sorry marvin But either your blind and need glasses or one of those people that rogers says "don't know **** about boxing". It was a robbery and i'm not a pacquiao fan but a friend of the mayweather team and family.