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Quote Originally Posted by TitoFan View Post
On the other hand............


Let's stop a little of the pontificating, pretending bad scores don't exist.
Horn may have very well been seen the winner in the fight, but 9 rounds to 3??

You put 20 judges instead of 3, and that one judge would fall totally outside the normal distribution of scores you would expect to see.
That sort of outlier usually means one of two things: INCOMPETENCE or CORRUPTION.


Any time boxing sees a score like this, it should be investigated and dealt with accordingly.
That's the problem with boxing. It continues to ignore mediocrity.
It works both ways though, we accept that you need to take the title off the champion, we accept that there will always be hometown decisions, we accept that the volume of the crowd can influence a judge.

My question is if the score cards would have been 100% reversed would there have been anywhere near this level of controversy?

I'll answer for you, no, no there wouldn't .


Yeah thanks for answering for me. Saved me a few keystrokes.

Regardless, it doesn't make this any less of a horrible score of a fight I imagine the judge was watching live and from the same vantage point as the other two.

Incompetence or corruption. Only two plausible explanations for such a shit score.

Until boxing starts holding judges' feet to the fire for horrible scoring, we'll continue on this hamster wheel indefinitely.