Comments Thread For: Why Do Boxing Robberies Continue To Happen?

[BoxHec]

I don't care to read about all this crying about robberies : publish an article were these judges are suspended, under investigation or at the very least try to interview these crooks and ask the tough questions please.

Yep, always the same critics but nobody do something against that, boxing journalists (or even some boxing fans who have time) should make a ranking about the worst judges, they can have all the bouts' details on BoxRec, if a judge made bad pointing in many fights so maybe he know nuts about boxing or maybe he's corrupted, a top-10 worst boxing referees (with stats and proofs) will be interesting and funny to see

[angkag]

Bad judging makes my blood boil, but I look at the Murata/D'Dam fight and the judges have my sympathy.

Murata hardly threw anything for large parts of the fight. He threw 2 punches in the first round ? A jab and one at the very end ? Then N'Dam was throwing a lot, but landing almost nothing. That was a judges nightmare.

However, there were a couple of occasions where N'Dam was knocked backwards from a clean punch and would clearly have gone down but for the ropes. In my understanding these should have been called knockdowns by the ref, which would have given a couple more 10-8 rounds to Murata if called correctly (5th and 7th I think), which would mean N'Dam having to then win 8 of the other 9 rounds to get a points decision, which I doubt. If any of the judges gave N'Dam either the 5th or the 7th where he should have got a 10-8 against him, then thats where the robbery would be.

[Steven Mccowan]

and in the meantime ndam would be landing what? nothing clean so why should murata lose? he landed the clean shots, covered up and barely got hit clean then landed some more shots. boxing? it seems like because he had so much success you expected him to have more and when he didnt you just gave it to the other guy

Haha yep. I tell ya its funny to read some of these ppl comments who think they can judge. Def a robbery.

[neoz]

What a bloody robbery.
Ndam ****ing hit nothing but glove all night and 2nd half of the fight ran like a chicken.
No wonder I hardly watch boxing anymore, so much blind ****er judges.

[ceylon mooney]

CORRECTION:

ndam-murata was NOT for the vacant middleweights strap. its not vacant. jacobs just challenged golovkin for the WBA middleweight championship, and golovkin is STILL the WBA champ.

the "regular" and "interim" and assistant and
diamond and silver and whatever are
NOT the world middleweight championship.

holding one of these belts means youvarr
DEFINITELY NOT world
champion.

aint u guys got a journalist
on staff? or an editor
or
fact
checker? somemof
the writin is good, and the volume of
content is fantastic, but christ
hire
an editor.

[aboutfkntime]

CORRECTION:

ndam-murata was NOT for the vacant middleweights strap. its not vacant. jacobs just challenged golovkin for the WBA middleweight championship, and golovkin is STILL the WBA champ.

the "regular" and "interim" and assistant and
diamond and silver and whatever are
NOT the world middleweight championship.

holding one of these belts means youvarr
DEFINITELY NOT world
champion.

aint u guys got a journalist
on staff? or an editor
or
fact
checker? somemof
the writin is good, and the volume of
content is fantastic, but christ
hire
an editor.

that is the same belt Golovkin defended 11 times in his current string of defences

[aboutfkntime]

because judges are sometimes style fans.

yep, imagine Lampley and Merchant as judges

[iamboxing]

yep, imagine Lampley and Merchant as judges

yep merchant would score the fight to the fighter who was more aggressive regardless if he landed...merchant was a strictly phone booth guy, lampley was more into the background story of a fighter...the sadder the more chance he has of winning

[MDPopescu]

By Corey Erdman - If boxing is considered to be a form of physical art, then perhaps it stands to reason that the work of its artists are all too often misinterpreted and unappreciated. On Saturday, two high level boxing matches ended in robberies-that is, that when it came time for the judges to pick a winner...
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... I didn't watch the Barthelemy fight too closely, because I felt the Cuban is getting beaten easily...

... But I closely watched the Murata fight and commented here (rbr)... It was funny as ****!!! Murata kept flooring N'dam at times, but Pabon failed to notice anything! ... And I even wrote here that N'dam may get a 'decision" (as long as Pabon doesn't keep track of KDs...)... and he did, ffs!!! What a fucking shame!!!

[ruedboy]

Bad judging makes my blood boil, but I look at the Murata/D'Dam fight and the judges have my sympathy.

Murata hardly threw anything for large parts of the fight. He threw 2 punches in the first round ? A jab and one at the very end ? Then N'Dam was throwing a lot, but landing almost nothing. That was a judges nightmare.

However, there were a couple of occasions where N'Dam was knocked backwards from a clean punch and would clearly have gone down but for the ropes. In my understanding these should have been called knockdowns by the ref, which would have given a couple more 10-8 rounds to Murata if called correctly (5th and 7th I think), which would mean N'Dam having to then win 8 of the other 9 rounds to get a points decision, which I doubt. If any of the judges gave N'Dam either the 5th or the 7th where he should have got a 10-8 against him, then thats where the robbery would be.

I thought the same thing about N'dam being held up by the ropes but I checked and the WBA doesn't have that rule.