Wow, that is a horrible decision

[ICB]

Wow i must catch up on this, so Paul Williams got gift decision ? getting a bit tired of these type of decision's i mean Devon Alexander should have 3 losses.

[marbleheadmaui]

Wow i must catch up on this, so Paul Williams got gift decision ? getting a bit tired of these type of decision's i mean Devon Alexander should have 3 losses.

First true robbery I've seen in a couple of years.

[Gallegos Boxing Gym]

There's a few things at play here. First of all, most of you (like me) didn't even start watching Williams-Lara until about round 4. Not sure how much I can cry about a decision where I missed a quarter of the fight.

And there was that little voice inside me during the mid-rounds where it seemed Lara was coasting. His left hands were so clear, the announcing team fearing for PW's life, meanwhile--I thought Williams snuck in a few of those rounds amidst all the hoopla going against him. But I remember thinking "Lara's giving them a chance to screw him by laying back."

With that said, I struggle to find more than a small handful of rounds where Williams' proletariat offerings usurped the clean punching of Lara. Giving Williams 116 points is criminal.

Is it robbery? I dunno. But when the big-name guy wins like this, it raises my BS alert meter. It's like the big-name guy wins if you can even make the most remote case that he won. There's too much burden of the proof on the unsung fighter. You shouldn't have to whitewash a guy to get a W. And having the cards so heavily stacked in the favor of house fighters is plain wrong, just from a sporting point of view.

The fact that supposedly objective arbiters EXCLUSIVELY give the benefit of the doubt to the house fighter, the bigger name guy, the more ballyhooed prospect has to be bullshit. It just doesn't accidentally shake out that way 100% of the time. If I saw the unsung foreigner get a break once in a while, I wouldn't complain. Or if they gave the 2-12-2 pug the decision he deserves against the 7-0 prospect one out of 1000 times, I'd be cool with it.

But when judges are in apparent lock-step with the wishes of promoters and managers, it begins to stink. ANd that's what was at play last night.