Robbery of the year...the fans have spoken.

[p4pking]

I guess that just goes to show that apparently most fans don't know shit about boxing - Pac vs JMM III was a close fight, but there's no fucking way it was a robbery.

No, it wasn't a robbery. Having said that, I watched that fight at a friends house with a half dozen guys who don't follow boxing whatsoever and all but one person legitimately felt Marquez had gotten screwed after the decision was announced, more or less. Now that's not to say it was the case, just that it really did appear(to myself included) that Marquez won that fight by a good margin, and it was certainly as high profile as any bout that had gone down for a while. A few other fights were clearly worse decisions, but they didn't mean jack squat for the sport and only true boxing nerds would've seen them. Of course Helenius-Chisora was techinically a worse decision on the cards; but can it in fact be a bigger robbery than an actual prize fight that went the wrong way? I say no.

[Mars_ax]

I guess that just goes to show that apparently most fans don't know shit about boxing - Pac vs JMM III was a close fight, but there's no fucking way it was a robbery.

No, it wasn't a robbery. Having said that, I watched that fight at a friends house with a half dozen guys who don't follow boxing whatsoever and all but one person legitimately felt Marquez had gotten screwed after the decision was announced, more or less. Now that's not to say it was the case, just that it really did appear(to myself included) that Marquez won that fight by a good margin, and it was certainly as high profile as any bout that had gone down for a while. A few other fights were clearly worse decisions, but they didn't mean jack squat for the sport and only true boxing nerds would've seen them. Of course Helenius-Chisora was techinically a worse decision on the cards; but can it in fact be a bigger robbery than an actual prize fight that went the wrong way? I say no.

I can see how many thought Marquez won, (not me) but what I don't get is the robbery/screwed part.

Anyway, this horse has already been beat to death.

[FinitoElDinamita]

Well, the people voted..

Marquez-pac was the robbery of the year...

[:::PSL:::]

And still. No one here can give a clear explaination why it was a robbery.

[Mars_ax]

PSL, I know what you're saying, but it's not going to change anyone's mind, if some fans want to believe there was a robbery, let them think what they want, who cares?

BTW, in the poll posted in the OP, Pacquiao-Marquez III was only seen as the “Robbery of the Year” by 43 percent of the fans who voted, so it's not like it was unanimous.

Paul Williams-Erislandy Lara got 32.1 percent, that would have been my pick after the screwing Dereck Chisora got in his fight with Robert Helenius which only got 9.8 percent of the votes.

This Ring mag poll is fucking worthless when you figure that Chisora and Lara really took it up the ass, and Marquez only lost a close competitive fight.

[:::PSL:::]

PSL, I know what you're saying, but it's not going to change anyone's mind, if some fans want to believe there was a robbery, let them think what they want, who cares?

BTW, in the poll posted in the OP, Pacquiao-Marquez III was only seen as the “Robbery of the Year” by 43 percent of the fans who voted, so it's not like it was unanimous.

Paul Williams-Erislandy Lara got 32.1 percent, that would have been my pick after the screwing Dereck Chisora got in his fight with Robert Helenius which only got 9.8 percent of the votes.

This Ring mag poll is fucking worthless when you figure that Chisora and Lara really took it up the ass, and Marquez only lost a close competitive fight.

Exactly!

[:::PSL:::]

i think JMM supporters are contnuing to stay blind and won't accept the fact that it was a close fight.

Most JMM fans mindset: "if we don't cry out that there was a robbery, then we're automatically accepting Pac won the fight".

Lmfao! Look. it was a close fight and could have gone other way. But to say a robbery occured.. is just pure retarded.