What are examples of the worst judges scoring in boxing?
The Whitaker vs Chavez draw. The Adelaide Byrd and CJ Ross with scores in very important high profile bouts as in Pacquiao vs Bradley, Mayweather vs Canelo Alvarez, Alvarez vs Golovkin. Any time you have one judge who has a score card that is so far off from the other two judges, you need to ask questions. We know that there are two main types of professional boxing judges. The one who scores more on hard hits vs the one who scores on pinpoint jabs and the hit and don't get hit scenario. They are both extremely valid. I would say that in the 2,000’s a one Jerry Roth was the one judge who I scored almost identical with. Tommy Kaczmarek was another excellent judge. When these two were scoring the same fight. In many close fights they would both score the same 115 - 113 total. Only for different boxers. With Tommy leaning a bit, not too much on power while Jerry liked clean shots with pinpoint accuracy. But not only judges. Referee's might not take points when they should or stop a fight too soon or too early.The boxing fans do not pay to have score cards like the Adelaide Byrd score in the Golovkin vs Canelo Alvarez fight put forth and she has been removed from big fights,but should be removed period. Casual fans saw immediately how outrageous her score was. And years ago she actually gave the same man (Canelo Alvarez) a draw in the one sided schooling that Floyd Mayweather admistered.She probably cost Golovkin the fight in my opinion.
Why does the law of averages not apply to Floyd Mayweather who has never been beaten in his boxing career?
To those who don’t follow boxing, Mayweather lost against Jose Luis Castillo in their first fight but was gifted with the decision.Regarding his undefeated professional record, it was largely manufactured with his fight career carefully managed against very beatable or clearly past their prime opposition.Without getting into too much detail…when he was Pretty Boy Floyd he fought descent competition at the 130/135 weight classes. He beat the champs there and beat down Diego Corrales. However, he clearly stayed away from a very fast and dangerous Shane Mosely….one of the 135 undefeated champions at the time…whom jumped to 147 and clearly beat a prime Oscar De La Hoya who Floyd struggled with for a little while 7 years later.At 140, Floyd fought absolutely no one and was practically given a belt. I don’t know why he never demanded to fight kostya tszyu or even mention Zab Judah during those early years. These 2 fighters were his contemporaries.At 147, he ducked everyone Antonio Margarito, Paul Williams, prime Manny Pacquiao, prime Miguel Cotto…instead choosing to fight complete bums(Berto, Maidana, etc) and over the hill fighters like Judah, Mosely, De La Hoya. Canelo was way to green at the time as well.Any talented person or team can remain undefeated when real competition is avoided.
What are your post match thoughts of the boxing match between Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin? was the decision controversial (2017)?
Only just got round to watching this.Phew, where to start? I thought Canelo’s defensive work was very impressive, he nullified a lot of Golovkin’s power shots, although Golovkin showed us that his jab is among the very best in the sport today, he managed to land frequently and regularly snapped Canelo’s head back with it. Canelo showed us a very good chin, Golovkin landed with some heavy shots as expected, but Canelo took them well. Golovkin, as expected, was not as difficult to find, and hardly felt Canelo’s shots, which is yet another testament to his iron jaw. Perhaps Canelo could have stepped it up a little bit more, he was on the back foot all night, but that’s his game, he’s always been a counter-puncher who fights in spurts as opposed to a classic ‘Mexican style’ fighter. Golovkin was a little disappointing in my opinion, he did just enough to win in my book, but he didn’t go to the body as much as I hoped from him, and he didn’t press home his advantage in the later rounds when Canelo was perhaps flagging a little, Canelo did very well late on to haul his way back into the fight after Golovkin got the upper hand of the middle of the fight. Maybe, as Chris Price says, he is a little past his best, or it may well be that Canelo is simply a level above the fighters Golovkin has fought so far.It was a close fight, I had it 115–113 to Golovkin, scoring rounds 1–3, 10 and 12 to Canelo and 4–9 and 11 to Golovkin. That said, some of those rounds were very competitive and could have gone the other way. Unlike most people in this thread, I don’t think this was a robbery, a draw is an acceptable result, although 118–110 is an absolute abomination of a scorecard, Adalaide Byrd should be banned for life for that. Sadly, it happens all too often in Canelo fights, every time he has fought a dangerous opponent, one of the cards has been far too generous in his favour (think 118–109 against Austin Trout, 114–114 against Mayweather, 117–111 against Lara and 119–109 against Cotto). I’m taking nothing away from his performance, and I highly doubt that he has anything to do with this personally, but when all is said and done, I don’t think he will be remembered anywhere near as fondly as past Mexican legends like Julio Cesar Chavez, Marco Antonio Barrera or Erik Morales.