The Five All Time Worst Boxing Decisions

[Master]

I thought ODH just beat Pernell.

Lennox v Holyfield 1 was bad so was MAB v EM 1.

[CFH]

Just an idea, but maybe we could find links for these fights and give our opinions on them after watching them again. They'll be fresh in our minds that way. I know we did something similar in the past. I dunno, flame away.

[Quinito]

Does worst ref fight stoppages count? Or is that another thread?

[Kel]

Nice article, props to the author. I agree totally with the Floyd Castillo fight, Castillo worked his arse off in the latter part of the fight only to get robbed I was fuming at that

[bzkfn]

A couple of horrible decisions I'd add to that. Casamayor robbing Santa Cruz on the Cotto-Mosley undercard was a bad one.

The worst one in recent memory for me was how 3 judges saw David Diaz beating Morales when it seemed pretty clear that Morales schooled him. The man would have been the first Mexican to win world titles in 4 divisions, and he wouldn't feel the need to continue fighting on.

[ElTerribleMorales]

i dunno if worst decisions ever but at least my picks are

(in no specific order)

Holmes Vs Spinks (both times)

DLH Vs Trinidad

Morales Vs Diaz

JCC Vs Whitaker

Cintron Vs Martinez

[Britkid]

Holmes Vs Spinks (both times)

Fight two was indeed terrible, but I would say fight one was up for debate, and Holmes had, had his luck in the previous 48 fights (Snipes and Williams stand out), thus he was due to lose a 50/50 call....

A good article, with fair well thought out arguments, but the five worst of All Time? Not all of them, in my opinion.

I remember Billy Hardy being screwed in a European Bantamweight Title fight in Italy, when one judge scored all the rounds even, except the 12th.

Sugar Boy Malinga was robbed blind in his first Benn fight, and even in the second fight one of the judges scored against him!

Henry Akinwande was on the wrong end of a terrible draw decision in Germany when he kicked Axel Schultz's ass for 12 rounds, first time round.

Schultz himself found out, turn around was fair play when he was robbed by George Foreman, who in turn was hard done by against Shannon Briggs.

Kirkland Laing found himself on the end of a shocking decision in Italy (against Oliva), when he was involved in a Italian speciality: The 12, 1 to 5 minute round fight; depending of course, on how the hometown fighter is doing!

Now they are probably not even in the top ten, hell, I have not even touched on Rivers/Walgast or Gonzales/CoggiI....

[BIG H]

I thought ODH just beat Pernell.

Yeh me too, had it even after 11