Thread: The Five All Time Worst Boxing Decisions

Originally Posted by Tarugo

I'm surprised that none of you mentioned Leonard-Hearns II. Leonard was repeatedly hurt and outboxed by Hearns and dropped him twice, yet it was declared a draw.

The reason that fight is controversial is because of ten point must. Anyone being fair cannot score the fight any better than 113/112 Tommy; thus a split draw is fair.

It is just Ray sneaked a few of his winning rounds and Tommy dominated his winning rounds. But with the exception of the knock down rounds, he did not do enough to win them any better than 10-9; which is the same as Ray got for winning rounds by landing half dozen more punches......

Dorin clearly dominated Spadafora a few years ago in one of the best fight of the year but one of the judges saw it draw and another one gave it to Paul, one of the worst draw decisions IMO.

Spinks vs. Mayorga.

Ricardo Mayorga was robbed in that fight, with terrible judging and bs point deductions. They took an exciting power punching welterweights title and gave it to a boring runner because of his last name.

Originally Posted by Britkid

Originally Posted by Tarugo

I'm surprised that none of you mentioned Leonard-Hearns II. Leonard was repeatedly hurt and outboxed by Hearns and dropped him twice, yet it was declared a draw.

The reason that fight is controversial is because of ten point must. Anyone being fair cannot score the fight any better than 113/112 Tommy; thus a split draw is fair.

It is just Ray sneaked a few of his winning rounds and Tommy dominated his winning rounds. But with the exception of the knock down rounds, he did not do enough to win them any better than 10-9; which is the same as Ray got for winning rounds by landing half dozen more punches......

A lot of the fights being mentioned were close not robberies. However Leonard himself admitted he should not have got the decision. Hearns jab won most of the rounds, Leonard had two big rounds think the last and round 5 but the knockdowns were the definite clinchers. (Another reason to hate you Brit Kid- LOL)

golatavsbyrd-golatavsruiz-golata-won-both.

Yeah, Golota Ruiz was a real robbery...

Forrest - Quartey (Quartey clearly won this one)

Leonard - Hagler...any persons who knows boxing will score it for Hagler...other, those who never entered in a gym will score Leonard. but this not a robbery :-)

but still, LEwis Holifield 1 was the bigger robbery I ever witnessed apart from Chavez - Whitaker

Walcott-Louis #1

Lewis-Holyfield #1

Briggs-Foreman--unreal

Pintor-Zarate

And the worse of all tiime: Tiberi-Toney. Are you kidding me?

Originally Posted by Spicoli

Seems the list is never ending and always grows unfortunatly,a few that stickave Tiberi vs. James Toney....Omar Weis vs. Antonio Diaz.....Felix Sturm vs. ODH...Fres Oquendo vs. Chris Byrd...Guty Espadas vs. Eric Morales....Wayne McCullough vs. Jose L. Bueno/Victor Rabanales

Tiberi-Toney worse one in history by far!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was there in AC live and still cannot believe what I saw that night.

Originally Posted by holmcall

Originally Posted by Spicoli

Seems the list is never ending and always grows unfortunatly,a few that stickave Tiberi vs. James Toney....Omar Weis vs. Antonio Diaz.....Felix Sturm vs. ODH...Fres Oquendo vs. Chris Byrd...Guty Espadas vs. Eric Morales....Wayne McCullough vs. Jose L. Bueno/Victor Rabanales

Tiberi-Toney worse one in history by far!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was there in AC live and still cannot believe what I saw that night.

Was pretty bad indeed.Was it Dierdorf?I thought he was going to stroke out right then and there.Strange why Tiberi never fought again??

Dave had his feelings hurt and wanted to be near Christ he said.

Originally Posted by boozeboxer

Dave had his feelings hurt and wanted to be near Christ he said.

Yeah, that pretty well sums it up. He got disgusted and just walked away. He is a deeply religious bloke and now has a nephew fighting who is 8-0. He also has a good buisness and is doing very well for himself. Nice guy.

Originally Posted by Spicoli

Originally Posted by holmcall

Originally Posted by Spicoli

Seems the list is never ending and always grows unfortunatly,a few that stickave Tiberi vs. James Toney....Omar Weis vs. Antonio Diaz.....Felix Sturm vs. ODH...Fres Oquendo vs. Chris Byrd...Guty Espadas vs. Eric Morales....Wayne McCullough vs. Jose L. Bueno/Victor Rabanales

Tiberi-Toney worse one in history by far!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was there in AC live and still cannot believe what I saw that night.

Was pretty bad indeed.Was it Dierdorf?I thought he was going to stroke out right then and there.Strange why Tiberi never fought again??

Yep, it was Dierdorf. A hush fell across Trumps as the people just stood their in disbelief. Toney, who was hanging across the rops totally exhausted, showed shock, albeit pleasant, when the decision was announced. Then, the croed started yelling "bullshit bullshit" and that went on for quite some time.

Originally Posted by Britkid

Originally Posted by Tarugo

I'm surprised that none of you mentioned Leonard-Hearns II. Leonard was repeatedly hurt and outboxed by Hearns and dropped him twice, yet it was declared a draw.

The reason that fight is controversial is because of ten point must. Anyone being fair cannot score the fight any better than 113/112 Tommy; thus a split draw is fair.

It is just Ray sneaked a few of his winning rounds and Tommy dominated his winning rounds. But with the exception of the knock down rounds, he did not do enough to win them any better than 10-9; which is the same as Ray got for winning rounds by landing half dozen more punches......

I disagree BK i just watched that again recently and to me SRL only won 2 rounds really clearly, and that was the 5th and the 12th. Where he badly stunned Thomas Hearns.

And the 5th round was a 10-8 round for SRL no question, but the 12th round clearly wasn't. I don't care what the punchstats said Thomas Hearns clearly made it his kind of fight.

He controlled the fight mostly from the outside with his long jab, and SRL was slower than normal and struggled to get on the inside. He took Thomas Hearns a bit lightly cause he see Thomas Hearns get layed out by Iran Barkley.

And he thought sooner or later he would be able to catch up to Thomas Hearns suspect chin, but that wasn't the case he was frustrated mostly all night long and he only won about 4 rounds IMO. And even SRL said himself he lost the fight, so i think that basically ends the debate of anyone who thought it was close enough for SRL to earn a draw.