Worst Boxing Robberies. Fact.

[JazMerkin]

Agreed that was one shocking decision, really felt for Brodie that night !

Also the classic 1st fight of Mayweather Castillo !

Far from a robbery. It was a close fight that was probably split over a round or two. The scorecards were too wide, but many still feel Mayweather did enough. It's like calling Calzaghe-Hopkins a robbery, it wasn't it was a close fight that just went Calzaghe's way, even if the scorecards were too wide (I had Hopkins edging it btw).

In terms of Italy, there was Vito Antuofermo's controversial draw with Marvin Hagler in... Las Vegas

funnily enough you mention hagler. Hagler was very wary of any english involvement in his fights after the way he was disgracefully treated by the crowd after he beat alan minter at Wembley. When the judges were announced for his fight with Leonard, Hagler strongly opposed the appointment of the english judge (whose name escapes me), and insisted on a different judge. The irony of it all is that the new judge scored the fight for Leonard whereas the english judge, when pressed on the matter, said he scored the fight for Hagler. Quite a lot of people thought he won it although personally i gave it to Leonard

Yeah, I had that for Leonard for narrowly, wouldn't consider it a robbery as it was close.

But yeah I know about that story about Hagler. Can't really blame him, Alan Minter used to have a lot of support within a racist group called the National Front & I think the way Minter played up to it with the 'I'll never lose to a black man' comment really fucked himself up. To be honest what they did in the stadium was child's play to what they did around the country week in & out. It's a shame Hagler couldn't beat every one of them up himself.