Boxing thread?

[JCRD]

I do find it strange how judges are selected or how they can judge a fight fairly when theyre in amongst the fans etc who are obviously going to be partizan. I am sure that influences decisions and judges marks.

 

[jackson]

The judge who scored it 114-111 in Taylor's favour would've had to have given Josh 8 rounds out of 12 which is just mental

 

[mark87]

Nice touch by PP

 

[NinjaTuna]

I rarely watch boxing at all, but just happened to turn on ss1 as the ring walks were happening and decided to keep watching this fight. Never heard of either of these boxers. But saw that Taylor was the champion and crowd favourite. Watched the 12 rounds and was feeling sorry for Taylor losing all his belts in front of his home crowd.

I was completely shocked when those scorecards were read out... Wow. What a robbery. How much were those judges paid to score the fight like that??

Similar to my family and I tonight. We'd finished watching Ant and Dec and were trying to find something to watch tonight before MOTD. Stuck the boxing on and watched the undercard fights. Campbell vs McFarlane was great fun. A bit like two pissed up Scottish lads going at it after 8 beers down the pub ?

The main event was so unbelievably one sided that we were saying we felt bad for Taylor that he was being shown up in front of his home crowd, and losing all his belts. The result from the judges left us almost speechless, other than wondering what the fuck had just happened. A clear example of corruption in the sport.

 

[fatpiranha]

If Catterall had knocked Taylor out he might just have got a draw.

Decisions like this and uncompetitive matches made just to pad a fighter's record is why I rarely watch boxing these days. I've seen some poor decisions in MMA but I've never thought it was corrupt. This clearly was.

 

[southlondonyiddo]

Another horrendous decision to add to a long long list of fixed fights

No way could Taylor have won that fight. There was even a 10-8 round

Gutted for Catterill, outboxed Taylor from start to finish & boxed the fight of his life

Embarrassing

 

[Flobadob]

This kind of thing is happening far too often these days and it’s happening on big fight cards with a lot of exposure too. Boxing is in my blood, both my grandad and Dad boxed as well as myself and I absolutely hate it when things like this happen for so many to see. It makes a mockery of the sport. They’ve gifted Taylor a win in his last fight in the division, everyone knows it and now he’s going to move up in weight and get spanked by the likes of Spence, Crawford and Benn. What a legacy. Really not worth dragging the sport through the mud is it?

 

[cider spurs]

Even my missus said there's no way Taylor won that.

SHE IS NEVER WRONG !!

 

[max cady]

It’s fights like that that will turn fans away from it. I was absolutely shocked when Taylor was given the verdict. What did he actually do in the fight to even deserve a draw. The judge who called it by 3 rounds should be investigated. I always felt Taylor was lucky to be where he was at but to then deny Jack a rematch clearly tells you the coward he is. Jack will come back, Taylor will chase the dollar at a higher weight and will be found out. One should remember it was not Taylor who scored the fight but he should have been man enough to accept he lost and immediately offered a rematch.

 

[Rocksuperstar]

 

[mark87]

Okolie retains his WBO Cruiserweight title against Cieslak by a unanimous points decision. He'll probably now look to unify.

 

[NinjaTuna]

I'm not a huge follower of boxing, but this actually seems like a good idea from Jake. Has this sort of thing been done before?

 

[Flobadob]

I'm not a huge follower of boxing, but this actually seems like a good idea from Jake. Has this sort of thing been done before?

That’s actually an excellent idea

 

[dontcallme]

I'm not a huge follower of boxing, but this actually seems like a good idea from Jake. Has this sort of thing been done before?

I'm not convinced that is the solution.

The problem with point scoring from the fan point of view is that so many don't seem to understand how point scoring works in boxing. Many fights talked of being fixed or badly scored are nothing of the kind.

From the judging view it is hard to know how much is corruption, how much is incompetance and how much is being swayed by the home crowd.

 

[JCRD]

Everyone seems unanimous that it was a Catterall win, I mean its like seeing the Man City handball and thinking it wasnt.

I think all officiating whatever sport should be subject to an interview after - including boxing. Coming from someone who couldnt score a bag of weed, I could score that fight as a Catterall win...

Wasnt there a fight a while back which was also scored incorrectly and the furore was on par with this fight?

Strange

 

[NickHSpurs]

Bagged tickets for Fury/Whyte today, £140 for floor seats (Block BB).

Frank Warren getting a lot of stick on Twitter, prices are as much as 30-40% higher than AJ/Klitschko which was also at Wembley.

 

[mark87]

Bagged tickets for Fury/Whyte today, £140 for floor seats (Block BB).

Frank Warren getting a lot of stick on Twitter, prices are as much as 30-40% higher than AJ/Klitschko which was also at Wembley.

Damn that's a steep rise.

Fury was saying yesterday that's there's potentially 103k tickets available for sale.

 

[NickHSpurs]

Damn that's a steep rise.

Fury was saying yesterday that's there's potentially 103k tickets available for sale.

My ticket was over 20% more expensive for same seats as AJ, £110 vs £140. Gotta make that purse bid back somehow hey!

 

[mark87]

My ticket was over 20% more expensive for same seats as AJ, £110 vs £140. Gotta make that purse bid back somehow hey!

That was exactly my thinking.

 

[$hoguN]

I'm not convinced that is the solution.

The problem with point scoring from the fan point of view is that so many don't seem to understand how point scoring works in boxing. Many fights talked of being fixed or badly scored are nothing of the kind.

From the judging view it is hard to know how much is corruption, how much is incompetance and how much is being swayed by the home crowd.

Yes. Travesty and fix are thrown round too often as people don’t understand what judges can base scores on. However that Catteral decision (and even worse the Campbell Hatton one) was a travesty.