British Boxing is the most corrupt scene in all of sport

[bojangles1987]

O'Connor is awful but he wasn't stopping the fight, he was jumping between the two fighters because the bell was about to go. The commentators tried to claim he was stopping it.

Looked like he was stopping it to me. He jumped in waving his hands, usually that means the fight is getting stopped. It's close enough that you may be right.

[Porter's Dad]

Another one to add to the list

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[Sugar Adam Ali]

everywhere in boxing there is corruption that happens,,

You just cant blame one country,, Its a widespread problem everywhere

[Porter's Dad]

Reactionary nonsense. There is corruption and incompetence everywhere in boxing. There's a reason this **** doesn't surprise me any more. It happens repeatedly and not just here.

Just seen this post.

Reactionary nonsense? **** off. You were the one who was calling everyone in the Kovalev-Cleverley thread before the fight idiots for predicting (correctly as it turns out) that O'Connor would help out Nathan.

Face it. British Boxing is a complete and utter shambles, and makes the American boxing scene look stable and fair in comparison, that's how bad it is.

And the want Andre Ward to come here and fight Froch

[Porter's Dad]

It's not corrupt, that's ******.

It's just our referees are too anxious, it goes back to Watson-Eubank/Benn-McClellan. They jump in far too early, have done for years and it will probably never be resolved. The rhetoric 'better safe than sorry' is one they use regularly.

Dodgy judging is to be expected but I'd say 95% of the bullshit that occurs over here is because of the ref.

Think Groves was right about his image vs Froch's and the fight being stopped 'cause of it.

Funny how the ghosts of Watson and G-Man only come into play when it's the foreign/non-house fighter in trouble. Meanwhile, Khan and Enzo Mac can get rocked around the ring and the refs let it go.

[LacedUp]

So is any fighter going to Oakland to get hugged and headbutted, ask Mikkel Kessler. How about Matthysse get low-blowed all night? Campillo getting robbed against Cloud? Half the big-name fighters across the pond getting caught being on steroids? Smoger hugging and kissing B-Hop while pushing and punishing Murat and pushing him in the face? Cortez allowing all of sorts of ish to go on? Beltran being robbed twice in the US? Dirty test results being "lost"? Fights allowed to go ahead after dirty test results? Injured fighters having to get their own cab to hospital? A fight biting an opponent's ear off? Provodnikov not getting the second k/d called? Al Haymon judges? PEDerson keeping his title after being caught dirty v Khan? The list goes on and on, the ish never ends.

It's boxing's problem, no matter where the fights take place. No one likes their fighters travelling to the 'other' place not because it's any less fair, but because they get done to them the same things they do to others. It's a corrupt and unhealthy sport, it is what it is.

Please end thread on this note.

[Porter's Dad]

everywhere in boxing there is corruption that happens,,

You just cant blame one country,, Its a widespread problem everywhere

I didn't blame just one country. I said one country has it the worst. Out of all the corrupt nations, Britain is the pits.

I'm going to keep adding to this thread. I saw Frank Warren call Howard Foster "one of the best referees in the world" so I'll be well-stocked for new material.

[IronDanHamza]

Funny how the ghosts of Watson and G-Man only come into play when it's the foreign/non-house fighter in trouble. Meanwhile, Khan and Enzo Mac can get rocked around the ring and the refs let it go.

Ref's are pretty quick on Enzo these days.

Especially since the Frenkel fight where the ref let him look like he was about to die.

The whole Philbin thing was ridiculous then of course the early stoppage in the McKenzie fight.

I think a lot of the time you guys aren't really too educated on the fights that take place over here.

Maybe an exception to the rule but what did you think of Ian John Lewis in the McCloskey-Corley fight?

[IronDanHamza]

Kovalev/Cleverly was seriously disgusting. The ref waved the fight off, changed his mind, and carried the guy back to his corner. WTF.

That's every bit as bad as the Froch/Groves stoppage.

That was pretty hilarious. When he carried him to his corner.

Think he was feeling abit sorry for Nath.

[Porter's Dad]

Ref's are pretty quick on Enzo these days.

Especially since the Frenkel fight where the ref let him look like he was about to die.

The whole Philbin thing was ridiculous then of course the early stoppage in the McKenzie fight.

I think a lot of the time you guys aren't really too educated on the fights that take place over here.

Maybe an exception to the rule but what did you think of Ian John Lewis in the McCloskey-Corley fight?

Mcphilbin, I had forgotten about that one

I haven't seen the McKenzie stoppage, so I won't comment on that.

If they're quick on Enzo these days, it's because their is no perceived value left in him anymore.

McCloskey-Corley was a bad stoppage but it's the exception to the rule.

I'm actually a Brit but I generally avoid the British Boxing scene, it is so rotten to me. C'mon Dan, surely you can see what is going on here? Every single biggish fight ends in nonsense. Do you think for a second Andre Ward should risk coming here? I understand the house fighter gets the advantages but it's getting to the point now where it would actually be ****** and reckless for someone like Ward to come and fight Froch here.