What's the biggest boxing robbery of all time.

[THE THIRD MAN]

The Whitaker V Chavez judging! Those judges were watching re-runs of Lost In Space instead of watching the fight! Bloody Idiots!

[BoomBoom]

What would be the worst call in history?

i'm gonna have 2 go with julio cesar chavez vs. meldrick taylor when richard steele stopped the fight with 2 seconds left.

I tend to disagree with this statement (I know I'm in the minority) because it is a decision that could have saved a life. Most agree that Taylor was not the same after that beating, what would've happend if he had taken one more pounch is anybodies guess.

I think the ref who didn't stop the Paret - Griffith fight made a much wurst call. That one did cause a life.

Absolutely. I think it was 17 unanswerd punches, that was a tragedy that was preventable. It took Parets life and badly damaged Griffith mentally.

[ElTerribleMorales]

imo the ref in the 1st fight between Bell and Mormeck was complete bullshit (the tape incident).

[greynotsoold]

What do you mean by "worst call"? Worst decision? Worst stoppage? In boxing, sadly, it could mean many things.
How about the decision in the 3rd Billy Graham/Kid Gavilan fight?
By the way, in Chavez/Taylor, I thought the knockdown should have cinched a clear UD for Chavez.

[ICB]

What do you mean by "worst call"? Worst decision? Worst stoppage? In boxing, sadly, it could mean many things.
How about the decision in the 3rd Billy Graham/Kid Gavilan fight?
By the way, in Chavez/Taylor, I thought the knockdown should have cinched a clear UD for Chavez.

Tell me your joking ?? not even biggest Chavez fan in the world thought Chavez could of won a decision Taylor outlanded Chavez by almost double beat him on the outside and inside i don't know what fight you was watching.

[the wiz]

When ref stopped Chavez vs Randall fight and somehow Chavez got the decision

This is my choice as well. I believe Chavez was even asked if he wanted to continue not to mention Randall was dominating

[slk123]

What do you mean by "worst call"? Worst decision? Worst stoppage? In boxing, sadly, it could mean many things.
How about the decision in the 3rd Billy Graham/Kid Gavilan fight?
By the way, in Chavez/Taylor, I thought the knockdown should have cinched a clear UD for Chavez.

Tell me your joking ?? not even biggest Chavez fan in the world thought Chavez could of won a decision Taylor outlanded Chavez by almost double beat him on the outside and inside i don't know what fight you was watching.

I'm a die hard Chavez fan myself but even I could see he was going to lose that fight.

On the stoppage, The fact that Steele should have noticed the red light and allowed the fight to continue is not a relevant argument. Let's say he did see the light, does he know there is only 2 seconds left? No, he would have to assume there is 10 seconds. I think we've all seen the "quickest knockout" posts lately and I would submit that a few of them happened well within 10 seconds. Any fighter that had sustained that much punishment over that many rounds could have easily been killed by a savage blow.

Steele did the right thing.

[brucelee]

Morales vs Diaz. That was highway robbery.

[Terry Nutkins]

Magee V Burke, Vincent V Barnes. Glencoffe Johnson was robbed on several occasions in the Uk including his bout against Woods.

[CutMeMick]

I just recently watched this one and no one has mentioned it. My god was this a robbery.

Carlos Navarro loosing to Derick Gainer that was painful to see/hear the scores.

Also mentions to Huerta loosing to Raymkulov

[The Rookie Fan]

I don't understand why these two topics were merged

Worst call referred to referees.

Biggest robberies referred to judges.

[nellymac]

Seen far too many to choose just one.
DeLa Hoya vs Sturm - Sturm won easily, Made DLH eat jabs all night.
Hatton vs Colazzo - thought Colazzo edged it, Hatton just wasn't as dominant at the higher weight.
Sven Ottke vs anybody - (Still remember Robin Reid getting a warning for punching?)
David Barnes vs Jimmy Vincent - everyone knows Jimmy vincent deserved all but 1 round for his finest performance.

also -

Just about any medocre with britains big promoters seems to be granted a win wether better than the opponent or not.
Boxing isn't just about who's better or trains harder, but who you know and how much money they've put behind you.

"He who pays the the piper names the tune"

[Mar]

Rjj's loss in the olympics....

[Terry Nutkins]

Carlos Maganas insatiable blood lust. Shame that Moore's corner possessed zero empathy as well.

[Beanflicker]

Biggest boxing robbery is Park Si Hun vs Roy Jones no question, that was just disgusting.

In the pro ranks, I'd have to say Chavez vs Pernell, the simple fact being that NO ONE disputes that Pernell won that fight. Other robberies in the past have people on each side of the fence, but there is absolutely no one on Chavez's side of the fence for that decision, which is amazing seeing as how popular JCC is.


Some decisions I thought were complete robberies...


James Toney vs Sam Peters 1 (Had toney winning 8 rounds)
Tito vs Oscar (had Oscar winning convincingly)
Dave Tiberi vs James Toney (Toney came in out of shape, gassed, and pretty much dominated)