Quote Originally Posted by shooter
The judges know who pays their hotel bills and gets them more gigs. It's the sanctioning associations who are in cahoots with pay tv operators and promoters. Boxing judging at this level is a junket. At the very least there is a subconcious motivation to serve your master. I think that this, coupled with a pro-Taylor crowd and an inability of the old men to distinguish between scoring and non-scoring punches, was most likely the case in this fight. At worst, there is direct interference.

In competitive fights, anything close to a tie pays the dealer. Taylor's HBO's middleweight franchise, HBO is the dealer.

Check out the book on Don King: 'Only in America'. It breaks down how these influences come into play and what a dirty game boxing really is.
As I'm pretty sure boxing is corrupt, but that doesn't explain how that would have put together a perfet skeem like the Taylor/Wright fight. Just because some people suck doesn't mean everybody does. I mean do you really believe that those judges cheated for two seconds?

The judges opinions seem like a pretty good cross section of what you are seeing here. Some peole think Wink won, some people think Taylor won, some agree with the draw. I wonder how the corruption sways our opinions?