Comments Thread For: Mauricio Herrera – The Shoulda Been Fighter of the Year

[UTEP]

He'd definitely be in the running for Fighter Of The Year if the judges would have scored the Garcia and Benavidas fights correctly. Herrera clearly won those fights.

[IronDanHamza]

The most common score on boxingscene was 8-4. on top of only 11% having it for Garcia in the larger poll of 455. With those type of margins, it absolutely is a robbery. You can have your own educated opinion on the scoring, which is perfectly fine, but you can't as an individual decide if a fight was a robbery or not. I think it's up to the collective opinion to decide what fight is deemed as a robbery in the history books. Even if only 40% thought the winner actually won, I could almost live with that not being called a robbery. But 10%? Fuck no. That's a robbery not matter what you personally think.

Another 10% had it a draw.

And plenty had it 7-5.

Bradley-Pacquaio 1, 1% had Pacquaio not winning and most of the scores were 9-3, very few were 7-5.

That's a robbery.

[DoktorSleepless]

Another 10% had it a draw.

And plenty had it 7-5.

Bradley-Pacquaio 1, 1% had Pacquaio not winning and most of the scores were 9-3, very few were 7-5.

That's a robbery.

10% draw doesn't change the magnitude of the lopsidedness of public opinion. Needing 99% agreement is a ridiculous standard.

Imagine if every fight on HBO next year had scorecards where only 10% of the public agreed with. You'd argue there's no problem with judging and all is well. No need to investigate. Nothing to see here.

[Beercules]

I really feel for Herrera. The guy can't catch a damn break.

Goes to PR and woops Dannys ass.

Goes to Vegas and woops what's his names ass, and gets robbed twice.

[Ringlife]

I really do feel for this guy, he needs to be rewarded with good payday's this year from his promoter Hoya.

[tjones1989]

In all honesty Herrera is not a marketable fighter. His fights are legit boring snooze fest half the time. I see why he got robbed, he's like 35. How much longer does he have left in the game? A couple more years at most? He won these fights but its a shame how the politics work sometimes.

[IronDanHamza]

10% draw doesn't change the magnitude of the lopsidedness of public opinion. Needing 99% agreement is a ridiculous standard.

Imagine if every fight on HBO next year had scorecards where only 10% of the public agreed with. You'd argue there's no problem with judging and all is well. No need to investigate. Nothing to see here.

10% draw adds to the fact that it was a close fight.

20% didn't have Herrera winning and a good portion had it 7-5.

Which if anything indicates it was a close fight. Which obviously it was. Just happens most leaned on Herrera.

Herrera didn't even clearly win 4 rounds, let alone 7.

[StopCrying...]

Herrera's jab doe. So crafty doe. Fans love a soft tough doe.

[MASTER1454]

He didn't clearly win either fight.

You can't complain about being robbed if you didn't clearly win

Exactly.

I had Danny edging him.

Thought he beat Benavidez but that was razor close aswell.

Neither were robberies. He was on the wrong end d a close decision both times.

FOTY? Please.

Not FOTY, but he was robbed in BOTH fights. Danny & Benevidez had no answer for Herrera's workman pace.

In all honesty Herrera is not a marketable fighter. His fights are legit boring snooze fest half the time. I see why he got robbed, he's like 35. How much longer does he have left in the game? A couple more years at most? He won these fights but its a shame how the politics work sometimes.

So, if he's not a "marketable" fighter, that means it's ok for him to get robbed when he ACTUALLY won? How do you sound?

[Weebler I]

The most common score on boxingscene was 8-4. on top of only 11% having it for Garcia in the larger poll of 455. With those type of margins, it absolutely is a robbery. You can have your own educated opinion on the scoring, which is perfectly fine, but you can't as an individual decide if a fight was a robbery or not. I think it's up to the collective opinion to decide what fight is deemed as a robbery in the history books. Even if only 40% thought the winner actually won, I could almost live with that not being called a robbery. But 10%? Fuck no. That's a robbery not matter what you personally think.

Some people can only accept their own opinions when it comes to scoring fights, even against the overwhelming majority who disagree with them. Ultimately you just have to leave them be in their minority position.