Has boxing ever been more corrupt than it is now?

[DuckAdonis]

this guy cant be serious. every single ranking and title used to be bought and sold. the mob controlled every title for decades. judges used to be picked and paid by the promoter instead of the commission. boxing used to be wayyyyy worse.

Sounds alot like today

[MONGOOSE66]

Its kinda like a cross between politics and WWE. Lol. Where ever u have greedy humans. Youll have corruption.

[BennyBlanco]

as long as the lead promoter continues to choose and pay the judges it will continue to be corrupt. the only real risk is getting ko'd and a lot of a-side guys make sure they don't take risks so it hurts the entertainment value as well. it also makes the best fights harder to make because guys know without that a-side control the chances of losing skyrocket so you see wilder trying to get joshua over to be on his show or joshua trying to get wilder over on his show.

Great point...except that the promoter does NOT choose and pay the judges. The sanctioning body chooses the judges, and they are paid by the athletic commission.

[alexguiness]

Boxing id still corrupt, but its more around drugs in the modern era.

When the mob ran boxing you could enter the ring with a pair of chainsaws and still lose a UD...

[MUNG]

its depressingly bad these days, scorecards are constantly manipulated to engineer the desired outcome, they roll out the same BS officials for years on end in some towns (vegas), someone is getting rich

[SHOOTALLCLOWNS]

i cant speak for the rest of the world, but that ended in the US a very long time ago.

there's a new mafia in town lol

[Richard G]

WHY DO PEOPLE STILL WATCH BOXING, if its so corrupt, commentators, trainers, commentators, the sound (for those that have to have mute on.............)
THEY LOVE TO PLAY THE VICTIM

Could be, something like that has to be part of it.

[Richard G]

Horn had a 10 percent connect rate and landed half the punches pacquiao did but got a decision in Australia. Thats a perfect example. None of revelateds 'breakdown' changes them facts.

Another example of picking one part of a complex situation and saying in effect that the rest of that situation is irrelevant. Thanks for providing an example in support of what I was saying.

[Madison Boxing]

Another example of picking one part of a complex situation and saying in effect that the rest of that situation is irrelevant. Thanks for providing an example in support of what I was saying.

What is there really to analyse, this is the problem with a lot of you pseudo experts, try and over complicate things to try and sound clever and justify dumb scoring. He landed 1 of every 10 shots thrown and landed half the punches of his opponent, sorry if i sound like a casual in your eyes but its 'hit and not get hit' well horn didnt hit and he got hit twice as much. Things like ring generalship etc dont matter if u land half the damn punches of your opponent.

[Richard G]

What is there really to analyse, this is the problem with a lot of you pseudo experts, try and over complicate things to try and sound clever and justify dumb scoring. He landed 1 of every 10 shots thrown and landed half the punches of his opponent, sorry if i sound like a casual in your eyes but its 'hit and not get hit' well horn didnt hit and he got hit twice as much. Things like ring generalship etc dont matter if u land half the damn punches of your opponent.

Where do your figures come from? One persons opinion? We are talking about pro boxing too not amateur where the number of punches is more definitive. Sorry, like it or not scoring can be complex and I'd prefer the final determination involving a significant number of officials with no obvious bias. Even if the decision was against my pick.