Stick'em Up!!!! The Greatest Boxing Robberies of All Time!

[merce77]

Made this thread to post, discuss and debate, highway robberies and close decisions. As UpgradeDave pointed out in the Mosley/Mayweather thread, there is a difference, so when you post, please differentiate. Oh and if possible, post a link to the fight.

Let's start with a couple of fairly recent ones. Oh and I got a couple of these from this dudes blog here:

http://thedailysportsherald.blogspot.com/2008/11/greatest-boxing-robberies-of-last.html



LENNOX LEWIS V. EVANDER HOLYFIELD I (HEAVYWEIGHT) - 1999 (Draw)

This fight defined what a robbery is for me. Lennox Lewis arguably won every round and a minimum of 9 out of 12. Holyfied was totally outclassed and the fight was not competitive at all. Lewis outlanded Holyfield by an incredible 348 to 130, and landed almost at will with a 57% connect rate to 34% for Holyfield. Lewis was shockingly dominant and after that night who could fail to understand why Ridick Bowe and most other legitimate heavyweights had ducked him for years. Overnight Lewis dashed his reputation as a protected "foreign" fighter and was on his way to being the most underrated heavyweight champion of all time.

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Disgusting robbery, even the most die hard Holyfield fan, as I was, could see that Holy at best won 3 rounds in that fight, just terrible.
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FELIX TRINIDAD v. OSCAR DE LA HOYA (WELTERWEIGHT) - 1999 (Majority Decision)

De La Hoya outlanded Trinidad 263 to 116 by CompuBox numbers in the fight, and that includes the last three rounds in which he barely threw a punch. De La Hoya won a minimum of 7 out of the first 9 rounds before coasting the last 3 rounds. Yes, we all wish Oscar had been more aggressive at the end, but basic math should have precluded Trinidad from winning this fight which was the biggest Welterweight Fight since Leonard v. Hearns in 1981. The magnitude of this event only increases the tragedy of the result. Only the die-hard Trinidad fan can argue that this fight did anything but clearly establish De La Hoya as the better fighter.

the link says Pac/Barrera but it's actually Oscar vs Tito:
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Oscar did this one to himself but Tito won 4 rounds of this fight imho.
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FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR. V. JOSE LUIS CASTILLO I (LIGHTWEIGHT)- 2004(Unanimous Decision)

Mayweather won a ridiculously lopsided unanimous decision, 116-111, 115-111, and 115-111. Castillo landed 46 more total punches (203 to 147) and was more accurate (40% to 30%) according to CompuBox. On power punches he had a huge advantage (173 to 66) and seemed to dictate the bout with his inside fighting. HBO's Harold Lederman had it 115-111 for Castillo. Castillo cut through the usually brilliant Mayweather defense with an assault to the body in a way no one had and no one has since.

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I'm convinced Bob Arum's withered evil old hand was responsible for this fuckery. Floyd is 39-1. Much props to Floyd for the rematch performance but only the biggest Floyd rider could call this a victory, Floyd clearly lost.
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SHANE MOSLEY v OSCAR DE LA HOYA II (JR. MIDDLEWEIGHT) - 2003 (Unanimous Decision)

Nobody was more surprised by this decision than Shane Mosley himself. Anyone who watched that fight could see that absolute shock on his face before he began celebrating. He knew, as most did, that De La Hoya had soundly beaten him on this night. The fight was not nearly as action-packed as their first clash, but the tactical dominance was established. Again, we are dealing with a 12-round fight, and there is no way you can find 7 rounds for Mosley. De La Hoya outlanded Mosley 221 to 127 with a 36% to 26% accuracy advantage. Mosley landed a pathetic 12% of his jabs and it showed.

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Watched this a few weeks back and had Mosley winning 4 rounds at best. This fight proved my theory that Oscar would have beaten Shane in their first fight had he boxed and hadn't been so obsessed with redeeming himself to the public(after those last three rounds in the Tito fight) by standing flatfooted and trading with Shane. Shane got a boxing lesson this time around. Floyd should study that tape. Payback to Oscar for the Whitaker fight I guess.

 

[merce77]

OSCAR DE LA HOYA v. FELIX STURM (MIDDLEWEIGHT) - 2004 (Unanimous Decision)

In the greatest gift decision in the Golden Boy's career, the judges seemed intent on making sure the De La Hoya-Hopkins match would happen with all three scoring the bout 115-113. Sturm outlanded De La Hoya 234 to 188 with a significantly better connect percentage. De La Hoya looked slow and sluggish for three quarters of the fight and Sturm simply outworked him. Even the few good moments for De La Hoya in the second half of the fight were more flashy than effective.

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This shit was such an obvious robbery, to sweep aside Felix Sturm and set up the big money bout with Hopkins. Sturm won this handily.

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FERNANDO VARGAS V. WINKY WRIGHT (JR. MIDDLEWEIGHT) - 1999 (Majority Decision)

A sad injustice for Winky that set his career back for several years. Based on this bad decision many people were deceived into believing Fernando Vargas was a much better fighter than he was. Wright outlanded Vargas and looked the better boxer. It wasn't a blow out, but it was clear enough who the better fighter was.

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Bullshit decision. Wink took some lumps but clearly won this fight.

 

[merce77]

This is from the '93 issue of Sports Illustrated:

Twenty-two stories above the streets of San Antonio, high above the scene of the crime played out in the city's Alamodome the night before, Pernell Whitaker faced with resignation the world he had so wanted to embrace in celebration on this first morning of his reign as boxing's king.

"I knew this might happen," Whitaker said quietly. "But still it was like a bad dream. Last night it was like someone put a knife in me and twisted it." Now, from the balcony of his hotel room, in the clear light of a new day, the man they call Sweet Pea had only to hope that the message he had delivered 12 hours earlier was as unmistakable as he had intended it to be.

He then waved a hand at everyone beyond the balcony railing and said, "I want to tell the world that I beat the unbeatable. From now on they're all going to look at me and say, 'There's the guy who beat Julio César Chávez. He has been beaten. Pernell Whitaker beat him up.' I'm not a tormentor; I'm not a tormentor. But I whipped his ass last night. And easily. I mentally and physically beat him. I put an old-fashioned project beating on him. A housing authority beating. A ghetto beating. Everyone tried to build him up, but I condemned the building. Pound for pound, Pernell Whitaker is the best fighter in the world. I'm not just a runner; I can fight. Give me credit. Give me the respect I deserve. Give I me this one!"

Last Friday night Whitaker put on one of the most dazzling ring performances in recent years. Yet, within minutes, two of the three judges reduced this magnificent show to a mockery by scoring the 12-round bout a draw. The third judge gave the fight to Whitaker, but the official result was declared a "majority draw"—a judgment so violently in contempt of plausibility that even a number of Chávez's partisans in the largely Mexican-American crowd of 65,000 appeared embarrassed as they quietly left the arena.

Whitaker's boxing exhibition was a tactical and technical virtuosity that at times led Chávez on a bewildered, groping circuit of the ring, as if Chávez were chasing wisps of ringside smoke. That Whitaker, in a perverse reward for his brilliance, needed to plead for respect and recognition underscored how badly justice had been served. Expressions of outrage from Whitaker's camp were immediate and to the point. "The rat bastards!" said Lou Duva, Whitaker's co-trainer, as he plunged headlong for the exit. "I told you we were going to whip him. Then they stole the fight from us."

What doubly damned the outcome, and heightened the damage it inflicted on a wounded and dispirited sport, was the sheer importance of the fight. In the last few years, as his record built to 87-0, with 75 knockouts, Chávez had emerged as the reigning king of the prize ring—a hard-punching bull with a killing body attack, a relentless style and the chin of your average tugboat. The 31-year-old Chávez has held five world titles in three weight divisions (after the draw he remained the WBC'S super lightweight champion), and according to the consensus, he held the mythical title of the greatest fighter, pound for pound, in the world.

Facing him was the 29-year-old Whitaker, with a record of 32-l with 15 KOs, the one loss the product of a dubious bit of ringside sleight of hand. He was the stylistic antithesis of Chávez—a southpaw, clever and quick-footed, with a bobbing, crouching, mobile style that made him an elusive target. Whitaker has also held five titles in three weight classes (he retained his WBC welterweight crown as dubious consolation for this draw), and his 12-round decision over Buddy McGirt on March 6 set up the match with Chávez. On Friday they were fighting for Whitaker's title, with a 145-pound weight ceiling—two below the customary welter-weight limit—set to accommodate the lighter Chávez, but there was a good deal more at stake. "This is for the best fighter, pound for pound," said Whitaker, a U.S. Olympic gold medal winner in 1984. "We may be fighting for my title, but that's not what everyone is talking about. This is like going for the gold again."

It was the ideal prizefight, the best boxing match in years. Chávez would earn as much as $5 million, by far the largest purse of his career, and Whitaker $3 million. Most everyone envisioned Chávez chasing the wisp through most of the fight, wearing Whitaker down with body shots—especially to the liver—until finally catching him in a late round with one of those sustained, devastating Hurries on the ropes. This was not even remotely what happened. For most of the 12 rounds Whitaker gave Chávez a lesson on movement, on fighting at angles and in circles, that simply confounded Chávez. Whitaker spun, ducked, crouched, dipped, weaved and slipped in and out of Chávez's effective range, and he fairly stunned the house by mauling and out-muscling Chávez on the ropes.

Chávez came out pressing the attack, and in the first two rounds Whitaker backpedaled to his right and popped the occasional right jab, keeping Chávez out of tempo. Roars went up whenever Chávez landed a punch, and throughout the vast dome the crowds waved the red, white and green flag of Mexico. Chávez was already having difficulty solving Whitaker's elusive movement, and here Duva made an adjustment that would make it even harder for Chávez.

"You're moving too fast. Pete," Duva said after Round 2. "Slow down! Double up on the jab. Don't be afraid to throw the left hand. Start letting him get a little closer. Turn him! Set the tempo."

Whitaker felt a surge of confidence. He came out for the third with a crisper, sharper jab, nailing a pursuing Chávez with three stingers in a row. At once he settled into what he called his "sleeping style," a kind of slippery, loosey-goosey way of carrying himself that made it harder for Chávez to get to him. By the fourth round Whitaker was in control of the fight as Chávez grew increasingly frustrated with his opponent's style.

In the fifth Chávez's corner began yelling at him to renew the attack, and he charged back to score one of his best rounds of the bout. In one flurry he landed two sharp right-hand leads, another left to the body and a third right that had Whitaker, for the only time in the fight, looking chastened and doubtful in the middle of the ring.

Yet Whitaker clearly won the sixth through the eighth, as the crowd fell ominously silent and the flags stopped fluttering. Whitaker had done what he had promised to do: "I like to go on the road and take the hometown fans out of it," he had said earlier in the week.

In the sixth Whitaker accidentally caught Chávez with a low left to the groin. Referee Joe Cortez stopped the fight to give Chávez a minute to kick away the pain, but Chávez needed more than that to shake off the larger effect Whitaker was having on him. Whitaker had taken away most of Chávez's arsenal of punches, save for the occasional right-hand lead, and Chávez had nothing close to Whitaker's jab. Chávez never mounted a sustained attack to the body, and he began to appear not only feckless and confused but also desperate and despondent as the rounds rolled by. He was losing the fight, and he couldn't come up with anything to turn it around. Chávez did win the ninth, scoring several times with left hooks and right hands.

After that round a frantic Duva exhorted Whitaker to make adjustments. "Pete, where's that jab?" Duva cried. "Where's that left hook? And get that uppercut going as soon as you see him get set."

Still, by the late rounds Whitaker appeared to be on his way to a win, but his strength trainer, Bob Wareing, knew better. Standing at ringside, he watched as José Sulaimán, the president of the WBC, collected the judges' scorecards at the end of each round. Wareing was astonished. "I'm watching one fight and seeing something else on the scorecards," he said later. Incredibly, at the start of the 10th Whitaker was behind 86-85 on the card of judge Jack Woodruff of Dallas, and even with Chávez, at 86-86, on the cards of Franz Marti of Switzerland and Mickey Vann of England. Wareing yelled at Duva, "Lou, we got to win two of the last three rounds to win the fight."

Duva barked the message in Whitaker's ear. Chávez came out fast, but Whitaker blunted his attack with sharp lefts, and by the round's closing moments Chávez seemed to be underwater. Whitaker won it. He took the 11th even more easily, and for most of the final round he moved and backpedaled out of harm's way while a tired Chávez chased after him. At the bell, looking perplexed, Chávez raised his arms in a wishful gesture.

A check of veteran fight observers revealed that most of them had it eight rounds to four for Whitaker—SI had Whitaker nine rounds to three. Yet Chávez nearly got his wish. Everyone knew, going in, that Whitaker was in hostile territory, and all that remained to speculate about was how bald-faced the larceny would be if Chávez were to take a licking. It went as far as it could go without someone actually calling the police. Marti and Vann arc fixtures at fights sanctioned by the WBC, an organization synonymous with Don King, Chávez's promoter and the man who put on the San Antonio show. Woodruff was assigned to the fight by Texas officials. None of the judges covered himself with glory in this affair, though Woodruff gave Whitaker the last three rounds, awarding him the light 115-113. But how he had Whitaker losing by a point after nine rounds is a mystery.

Marti and Vann disagreed about what they were watching—they scored six of the 12 rounds differently—but they both came out with even scores, 115-115, and so carried the day for the WBC with the majority-draw decision. "I don't think there was an outcry," said Vann the morning after the outcry. "Some people thought one guy won; some people thought the other did. Who's right? We're right. I got it right, and that's it." Asked what he saw that others might not have seen, Vann said, "Attack. That's what Chávez did: Attack!" So much for the boxer's art. According to Marti, who said he saw Chávez dominating the fight, the criticism nettled him not. "Not everybody knows how to score a professional fight," he said. Marti provides the proof of that.

It was also left to the impartial observers at ringside to ponder how Dan Duva, Whitaker's promoter, could have yielded so thoroughly to King and the WBC in the selection of the judges, especially knowing, as he must have, that his man was not likely to win by a knockout. In fact, says Duva, after much heated negotiation Texas officials assembled a pool of five judges who had worked fights for the WBC, and he and King were allowed to strike one each. A reasonable compromise? Hardly, says Duva. "It was clear to me that the five were not among the best in the world," he says. "Early on I had suggested getting Jerry Roth of Nevada, the guy who is recognized as the best." But, says Duva, the Chávez camp did not want Roth. "My opinion," says Duva, "is that he was turned down because he had Meldrick Taylor ahead when Taylor fought Chávez." In that 1990 fight Chávez KO'd Taylor when referee Richard Steele stopped the fight with two seconds remaining in the final round.

Last Friday night, says Duva, a number of WBC officials approached him with strange expressions of condolence. "They said to me, 'What arc you complaining about? This is the perfect result. Everyone wins,' " says Duva. "That's just sickening. On the day of the fight everyone who knows me knows that I had one fear: that Pernell would get robbed. That these people, for their own political interest, would deny him his victory."

In the end, of course, it is the fighters who suffer the most. The Chávez record now bears a tainted gift that is far worse than any defeat. No one in the spoil has lived a more definitive life between the ropes than Chávez—it is all there, in black and white, in black and blue—and now there is this nettlesome ambiguity, this grayness that will never go away. Better that he should have lost and gone on. So the events of last Friday night were as unfair to him, and all he has meant to the sport, as they were to Whitaker.

"I feel a little bit beat up," Chávez said quietly, laughing, the morning after the fight and a night of partying. "It was a difficult fight. Unfortunately, I couldn't do anything better. I still think that I forced the fight, I kept going forward. There was something I kept doing wrong...." It was nothing more than meeting the first man in his life that he could not handle.

That man was left treading the same murky waters. Whitaker knew he had won, but the record books will say he didn't. He was left talking to the world beyond the balcony, as though trying to convince himself of something of which he was sure yet not quite sure. "Deep down I know I won it," Sweet Pea said. "Deep down you know it. Deep down...."

Just where those judges left it.

Pernell Whitaker vs. Julio Cesar Chavez (191 MB)
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[Spectrum]

[FLASH]http://www.youtube.com/v/JZSaeqVI4q8[/FLASH]

 

[Spectrum]

This is from the '93 issue of Sports Illustrated:

This shit still pisses me off

 

[Rollie_Fingaz]

This shit still pisses me off

Meldrick Taylor put a foot in his ass too and got robbed..

 

[Spectrum]

Meldrick Taylor put a foot in his ass too and got robbed..

2 fucking seconds left in the fight

 

[merce77]

Thomas Hearns vs. Sugar Ray Leonard II

Their first fight having been an all-time classic, there were heavy expectations for this fight although both men at this point were considered slightly past their best. The action started cautiously with both men landing several good shots but nothing telling. It continued that way for the first 2 rounds with Hearns seeming to control the pace of the fight with his long jab. Hearns dropped Leonard in round 3, and again in round 11. But Leonard hurt Hearns in round 5, and a barrage of punches by Leonard late in round 12 had Hearns reeling against the ropes. After 12 rounds, the judges scored the fight a draw. The decision was highly controversial. Most felt that Hearns had done enough to get the decision. (In fact, within a few seconds of the announcement that the match was a draw, the crowd was chanting, "Bullshit! Bullshit!" loudly and clearly enough to be heard on TV.) Leonard has even said that in his mind, he and Hearns are one and one. Following this rematch, both men continued to box, and in 1991 they squared off against younger opponents, with opposite results. Hearns once again recaptured a championship belt by defeating Virgil Hill, while Leonard was soundly beaten by Terry Norris.

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[Dallas Bueller 2010]

good lookin merce.

 

[Upgrade Dave]

This is from the '93 issue of Sports Illustrated:

Pernell Whitaker vs. Julio Cesar Chavez (191 MB)
http://www.megarotic.com/?d=HB1WJTFA

Thomas Hearns vs. Sugar Ray Leonard II

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After these two and the Holyfield-Lewis I "draws", boxing should have done away with even numbered round fights and demand every round has a winner(10-9, 10-8, or even 9-8).

 

[cheyisrameyah]

bump

 

[PinoleroNicoya-]

FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR. V. JOSE LUIS CASTILLO I (LIGHTWEIGHT)- 2004(Unanimous Decision)

Mayweather won a ridiculously lopsided unanimous decision, 116-111, 115-111, and 115-111. Castillo landed 46 more total punches (203 to 147) and was more accurate (40% to 30%) according to CompuBox. On power punches he had a huge advantage (173 to 66) and seemed to dictate the bout with his inside fighting. HBO's Harold Lederman had it 115-111 for Castillo. Castillo cut through the usually brilliant Mayweather defense with an assault to the body in a way no one had and no one has since.

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I'm convinced Bob Arum's withered evil old hand was responsible for this fuckery. Floyd is 39-1. Much props to Floyd for the rematch performance but only the biggest Floyd rider could call this a victory, Floyd clearly lost.

People get pissed when this is brought up.

 

[TJervey]

This is shaping up to be possibly the greatest boxing thread ever on BGOL. The mosley/oscar fight and the mayweather/castillo fight to me should be 1 and 1a. The disparity in the numbers were rediculous and it wasn't based on a few big rounds either but consistent round by round domination...

 

[TJervey]

This is shaping up to be possibly the greatest boxing thread ever on BGOL. The mosley/oscar fight and the mayweather/castillo fight to me should be 1 and 1a. The disparity in the numbers were rediculous and it wasn't based on a few big rounds either but consistent round by round domination...

 

[merce77]

This is shaping up to be possibly the greatest boxing thread ever on BGOL. The mosley/oscar fight and the mayweather/castillo fight to me should be 1 and 1a. The disparity in the numbers were rediculous and it wasn't based on a few big rounds either but consistent round by round domination...

Glen Johnson should have at least one fight up here, as many times as they've robbed poor old Glencoffe

 

[TJervey]

Glen Johnson should have at least one fight up here, as many times as they've robbed poor old Glencoffe

Glens ass deserves a lifetime achevement award for getting robbed! Vegas needs to come up with an odds of getting robbed category for his ass !

 

[merce77]

Glens ass deserves a lifetime achevement award for getting robbed! Vegas needs to come up with an odds of getting robbed category for his ass !

 

[Upgrade Dave]

I noticed that a lot of these fights didn't have rematches. A couple were rematches but you would think Winky Wright or Pernell Whitaker would have gotten another shot at the guys that robbed them.

 

[Gtkid]

Gotta disagree with the Mayweather fight being in this thread. I just watched the whole fight again on youtube and this is how i see it.

Rounds 1-4 Mayweather won all of these rounds. Castillo landed single digit punches thru the 1st 3 rounds while Mayweather landed the jab consistently and landed several counter punches. He controlled the ring and when/where the action took place in the ring.

Round 8 Mayweather controlled this round and landed several clean, effective counter punches while Castillo was pursing and missing with shots.

Round 10 Mayweather took this round also with clean punching and counter punching. Castillo just didn't do enough to take this round.

*The points taken from both fighters cancel each other*

A few rounds (I think round 5 could have went to Mayweather. It was very close round and round 9 could have went to either boxer ) were close, but Castillo won the other rounds for sure. Let us just assume that Castillo won all the other rounds. At worst, this fight ends in a draw and Castillo retains his belts. Also, Mayweather stated that his left was injuried, but since he decided to step in the ring with the injury, that is his problem. Ultimately, none of this matters though, because the judges scored the fight. It isn't the first time they have been way off with the scores, but i don't think this should be listed with the greatest robberies of all time. And FYI for all you Pacmanfans, Floyd is a better boxer than Pac and once/if Roger get straight, he is gonna beat that man up like he snitched to the IRS about Floyds extra earnings.

 

[Brother Blues]

Meldrick Taylor put a foot in his ass too and got robbed..

Referee Richard Steal,err Steele....will be in on more than one of these jobs.

 

[FJP]

Meldrick robbed his own dumb ass self by not staying away. Man but HUGE props on that Felix Sturm fight. Thats possibly the biggest robbery I've ever seen. When I bring that fight up people be like "who"? That fight was supposed to be Oscars middleweight tuneup for Hopkins. He cleary beat the shit out of Oscar, its just that Hopkins fight was already set and it was too big for them to have Oscar lose. As long as he finished on his feet, Oscar was gonna win that fight.

 

[merce77]

Gotta disagree with the Mayweather fight being in this thread. I just watched the whole fight again on youtube and this is how i see it.

Rounds 1-4 Mayweather won all of these rounds. Castillo landed single digit punches thru the 1st 3 rounds while Mayweather landed the jab consistently and landed several counter punches. He controlled the ring and when/where the action took place in the ring.

Round 8 Mayweather controlled this round and landed several clean, effective counter punches while Castillo was pursing and missing with shots.

Round 10 Mayweather took this round also with clean punching and counter punching. Castillo just didn't do enough to take this round.

*The points taken from both fighters cancel each other*

A few rounds (I think round 5 could have went to Mayweather. It was very close round and round 9 could have went to either boxer ) were close, but Castillo won the other rounds for sure. Let us just assume that Castillo won all the other rounds. At worst, this fight ends in a draw and Castillo retains his belts. Also, Mayweather stated that his left was injuried, but since he decided to step in the ring with the injury, that is his problem. Ultimately, none of this matters though, because the judges scored the fight. It isn't the first time they have been way off with the scores, but i don't think this should be listed with the greatest robberies of all time. And FYI for all you Pacmanfans, Floyd is a better boxer than Pac and once/if Roger get straight, he is gonna beat that man up like he snitched to the IRS about Floyds extra earnings.

That's how you see it, most Mayweather fans do. Most boxing fans saw Castillo get robbed. The disparity in power punches was ridiculous, Floyd landed using mostly his jab the whole fight, jabs don't win fights. Floyd lost, stop trying to turn it into something it's not, just be content in knowing he shut Castillo down in the rematch. And stop caping for Floyd, we don't wanna hear about Floyd and Pac in a thread that has nothing to do with that shit, go on one of the other threads where we beat that topic to death.

 

[Alaskanredman]

That's how you see it, most Mayweather fans do. Most boxing fans saw Castillo get robbed. The disparity in power punches was ridiculous, Floyd landed using mostly his jab the whole fight, jabs don't win fights. Floyd lost, stop trying to turn it into something it's not, just be content in knowing he shut Castillo down in the rematch. And stop caping for Floyd, we don't wanna hear about Floyd and Pac in a thread that has nothing to do with that shit, go on one of the other threads where we beat that topic to death.

The fight was close but I think Castillo bested him in the first one, but there were way worse robberies.

like Toney v Peter I

 

[Zeferino]

I never saw the Oscar/Tito fight as a robbery. I know people love to say Oscar just dominated rounds 1 through 8 or 9 easily but that's bullshit. Watch the fight again. Rounds 1 through 4 were toss up rounds and could have gone to either guy. Yes, Oscar definitely took over from rounds 5 through 8 and possibly 9. Oscar virtually gave 10, 11, and 12 away. The only rounds that were not clear for either guy were those first four rounds and to me those decided the fight. I personally scored the fight a draw.

 

[merce77]

The fight was close but I think Castillo bested him in the first one, but there were way worse robberies.

like Toney v Peter I

Or all of Toney's fights against Montell Griffin, what bullshit decisions those were. Or how Mike McCallum got robbed against Toney in both those fights.
But Floyd is a high profile fighter who banks on being "undefeated". And this list was actually a "worst robberies of the last decade" list. But this whole thread is about robberies. If you guys can think of any more, feel free to add them.

 

[patscorpio]

nah the biggest robbery to me was robin reid vs sven ottke....this personified the corruptness is german boxing....guaranteed to have you be like

 

[callbacc]

Anyone got the password on the FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR. V. JOSE LUIS CASTILLO I

 

[SmoothD]

This has to be Number 1. Boxing Roy Jones Jr vs Park Si-Hun 1988 Olympic Final. Don't know why the video is showing up twice

 

[Zeferino]

Derrick James vs Spock Lucas was probably one of the greatest robberies ever.

 

[Bones]

Good thread

DLH beat Mosley and Tito, Oscar stays getting robbed or robbing people damn

 

[Jim_Browski]

Meldrick Taylor put a foot in his ass too and got robbed..

I triple dog dare Richard Steele to try to post up in the Blue Horizon at some fight card...just because.

No...I take that back. I honestly don't think Richard Steele would get a fair shake anywhere in the Delaware Valley.