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Tainted love
Adam Smith relives some of the cons, the controversies and the calamities thet keep us coming back for more.
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Adam Smith relives some of the cons, the controversies and the calamities thet keep us coming back for more.
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Lee Richardson says...
For me there the biggest "con" was Sugar Ray Leonard, given more dubious decisions in the 80s that any other box I know. Hagler clearly won the super fight, but was robbed. Duran was obviously given the nod to throw the 2nd fight and of course the last fight with Hearns. Leonard was nothing more than a money making machine definately not one of the greats.
Posted 11:59 12th July 2008
Steven Bonnell says...
I thin people are forgetting Joe Cortez in the Floyd Mayweather-Ricky Hatton Fight Cortez wudnt let hatton box at all and the back of head blow was ridiculous if Ricky was allowed to box fairly it might have been a different result!!!!!
Posted 02:00 12th July 2008
Neil Harris says...
I do't think Dempsey-Tunney was that bad, yes he was down for like 14 seconds, but he was up on one knee waiting for the ref to get to 8, it wasn't like he was struggling to get up. If the ref had been on him game and counted properly then Tunney would have got up anyway, I,m sure that Dempsey also admitted this. Controversy in boxing will always be around, 100 years ago the police would stop fights if it looked like a black man was going to win, 50 years ago the mob-backed fighters dominated. Even today with what Williams had to go through in Spain. Boxing now is more about the promoters and TV. You see fighters who'll make more money given close decisions, Hatton was given a gift against Collazo, these type of decisions happen a lot.
Posted 11:07 11th July 2008
Adam Campbell says...
In recent times it has to be De la Hoya v Mayweather....de la hoya won that fight by 4 rounds minimum....how someone can win a fight by doing very little like mayweather did...de la hoya was all over him! I also think there was more to Hatton v Mayweather...cortez was definately on mayweathers pay list!!!!
Posted 09:14 11th July 2008
Brian Nugent says...
Benn V Watson (1).. Benn was entertaining and a huge draw for the boxing public but how Watson was not awarded the result he deserved I will never know.
Posted 22:59 10th July 2008
Carlos Tamayo says...
For me it would have to be the first fight between Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield. Lennox destroyed him throughout the fight, did more work, landed more cleaner punches, yet because it was a box office sell out it was called a draw so that a rematch could take place. I do not believe that I am the only person to think that this happens often in American boxing, and where the fights are reasonably close the likes of Don King and Bob Arum call the shots.
Posted 14:41 10th July 2008
Ross Walsham says...
It's not so much controversial but just plain bizzare. Lewis v McCall 2, when McCall started to refuse to defend himself and then started to cry in his corner!? Very strange.
Posted 13:30 10th July 2008
Steve Ellis says...
It doesn't get mentioned a lot, but I think the De La Hoya v Moseley II was a huge controversey. I remember thinking as the fight was unfolding that Moseley looked shot, he just walked forward and De La Hoya was picking him off. I scored the fight for De La Hoya by 5 rounds. I was shocked when the scores were read out 115-113 by the three judges. I couldn't believe what I was hearing when Buffer said "and new". I think if Oscar got the decision he would be retired now, and his career would have be looked at differently, remember he had just come off a massive stoppage win over Vargas.
Posted 13:21 10th July 2008
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