America or Germany?

[Abe Attell]

Hmmm the UK and Italy are pretty bad as well... I would say ALL countries are bad.. The home town descion is really the MONEY descion.. and THAT knows no borders... However I have still never quite seen anything like the Robin Reid Sven Ottke affair.. THAT could only happen in Germany..

agree: humans all over the world are fallible and bias

[SnoopySmurf]

I went into a lengthy discussion and posted my reasons a while back....as to why America was the worst.

Everyone always cries Germany, but America takes the cake.

Foreman v.s. Briggs
Augustus v.s. Burton
Foreman v.s. Schulz
De La Hoya v.s. Mosley 2
Toney v.s. Peter
Wright v.s. Vargas
Forrest v.s. Mayorga 2

I could go on all day long, all of them IMO flat out robberies.

None of those were as bad decisions as the Valuev vs Larry Donald and the Sven Ottke vs Robbin Reid fight.

[!!! Beowulf !!!]

Hmmm the UK and Italy are pretty bad as well... I would say ALL countries are bad.. The home town descion is really the MONEY descion.. and THAT knows no borders... However I have still never quite seen anything like the Robin Reid Sven Ottke affair.. THAT could only happen in Germany..

I'd suggest that British judges are usually quite good. Its the continentals who get shipped in to judge EBU fights that tend to mess things up (Germans/Austrians and Italians for example).

[RAESAAD]

Well there are many more fights here than there so overall the # of robberies may seem higher but I would have to think % wise half the fights that take place in Germany are contraversial............

[Welter_Skelter]

I'd suggest that British judges are usually quite good. Its the continentals who get shipped in to judge EBU fights that tend to mess things up (Germans/Austrians and Italians for example).

I'll agree UK judging is usually spot on in DOMESTIC tussles

[Guest]

I'll agree UK judging is usually spot on in DOMESTIC tussles

The only UK robbery I can recall off the top of my head is Scott Harrison getting a draw against Victor Polo, though I wasn't scoring the fight accurately. Damaen Kelly this year too.

Oh, and I had Johnson winning 115-113. For OFFICIATING, it's Germany.



Actually, here's the answer: who knows? We only know the American ones because they're high-profile. For all we know all the German fights we never get to see are robberies as well. And yes, I too have seen nothing like Reid-Ottke. That was bizarre.

[We've Got Bush]

They both have there fair share of bad judging.

[Left2body]

I went into a lengthy discussion and posted my reasons a while back....as to why America was the worst.

Everyone always cries Germany, but America takes the cake.

Foreman v.s. Briggs
Augustus v.s. Burton
Foreman v.s. Schulz
De La Hoya v.s. Mosley 2
Toney v.s. Peter
Wright v.s. Vargas
Forrest v.s. Mayorga 2

I could go on all day long, all of them IMO flat out robberies.

Ok, but you also have to take into consideration the amount of Televised fights that you have see that are staged in America as opposed to the number of televised fights you have seen staged in Germany.

Volume of fights to robbery ratio.