Worst Outcome in a Big Fight

[The Rookie Fan]

The Trinidad win against De la Hoya was total bullshit, DLH put on a clinic and was blatantly robbed!
The one thing that angers me most about professional boxing is the B/S decisions we have to put up with from time to time. It will happen again in the future, maybe even next week!

There have been worst decisions in the world. I'll name two... DLH vs Quartey and DLH vs Sturm

Obviously not a DLH fan, both of those fights were close and DLH would have been stiff to lose either of them. The Trinidad result is exactly what is wrong with boxing sometimes as that fight wasn't even remotely close.

First of all, I am sorry to have derailed the topic of this thread with my comment.

But since I started such a debate, might as well continue it.

Quartey vs DLH might not have been such a shocker as Tito vs DLH but that was because of the last round and the fact that he deserved the victory. Ike was done and if the fight lasted 10 more seconds the ref would have stopped the fight. However, as was stated before, the championship rounds should not decide the hole fight. This fight also ended in a split decision which means at least one judge saw Quartey winning the fight.

DLH vs Sturm to be honest I would have to see this one again, but I remember being very upset at the decision and thinking that I didn't remember DLH winning more than 4 rounds. I'll admit that maybe I was so impressed with how well Sturm was doing that I might have given him the benefit of the doubt.

In the Trinidad - DLH fight you have to take into account several things. One being that punch stats do not tell the hole story because they are not divided by round. Two it is a myth that DLH clearly won the first 9 rounds, the first 5 were very much even. Take the first round for example. Nobody did anything in that round and Tito was the aggressor, who are you gonna give it to? And there was one round (3rd or 4th, I can't remember) were Tito clearly won the round with good combinations and clean punches. Also remember that it was a MAJORITY decision. And Ledderman had it even. That means that none of the judges saw DLH win the fight.

My point is all of these fights were very close and to say that the DLH - Trinidad fight was total BS and a robbery is an much bigger exaggeration than me saying the Quartey and Sturm fights were even worst decision.

With that said, I think DLH is a great fighter, I think he is going to beat PBF and I am a fan of his fights. I'm NOT, however, a DLH FANATIC