Yet another foreign fighter was robbed in the US last night. Why do the public accept that the refs and the judges always protect and help US fighters against guest boxers?
Maybe guest boxers to the US should do like Jeff Lacy did when he fought in Europe – he brought his own ref!..
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Sultan was robbed but thats just the politics of boxing. Lmao at the Lacy thing
who did sultan fight?
He fought Ray Austin, a real “big” (6’ 6", 250 Lbs.) awkward dude. It was a draw, but I felt the Russian had the edge and stunned the giant three times; floored him once. A fair ESPN Friday night fight to watch; both would be KOed by Wladimir Klitschko or Nikolai Valuev. As a matter of fact, Samuel Peter could take both out. :-\
The fight was horrible & to classify Ray Austin as “a real “big” (6’ 6”, 250 Lbs.) awkward dude" is way off mark.
He’s big…but he aint awkward.
Ibrag is not going to meet his hype & that was no robbery.
Generally the US judges are more corrupt than the city of Newark under Mayor Sharp James
Please man there ar plenty of US fighters that have gotten the shaft in Europe, so stop your pissing and moaning…
A few weeks ago everyone was saying how Warriors got the home town call with Urango.
Now, on the same network, in the same arena, another Warriors boxer loses and you say he was robbed?
So which is it? Does Warriors get the home town calls or do they not?
If anything this was a MUCH MUCH more important bout for Warrors. So if they are going to ‘buy’ a win, this would have been the one to get.
Sultan wasn’t robbed. I think a draw is a fine outcome because neither of these guys should be fighting Wlad. However, if I was going to call someone the winner it would be Sultan.
Ray Austin may not be “awkward” but if someone calls him a speed fighter I’ll eat my hat. What a sloth…
It was a draw. Cry me a river.
I agree, draw was a fair call.
Just proves that Warriors is not getting the home town decisions. This easily could have gone Sultan’s way without much controversy.
What goes around comes around. This is just payback for those Europeans robbing Jeff Lacy of his hard earned win over Joe Calzaghe.
Like others have said, there is no way either of these guys should be fighting Wlad Klitshcho. I’m sure Wlad wants an easy opponent, but come on! And this was hardly a blatent robbery, I had Sultan winning by a point but he is hardly “Mike Tyson, except technically a little better” like his boxing coach claimed. He’s just a ugly flabby little Russian troll. Remember also that Austin should have gotten credit for TWO knockdowns, not just one. The fight was decent with some good spots but not great like Joe Tessitore was claimiing. Wasn’t a bad robbery either. A draw saved em both from goin to the slaugher at the hands of a giant fairy(Wlad).
It wasn’t robbery. It was just a case of Sultan showing how overrated he really was.
I agree that a lot of forreign boxers are getting robbed by judges and cheated by refs and I have posted here about this very thing.
I LOVE LACY AND I AM AMERICAN BUT…DID U JUST SAY THAT ? CALZAGHE FWACKING SCHOOLED HIM IN EVERY AREA OF BOXING… LACY JUST WASNT READY… gAME FIGHTER BUT cALZAGE(AND THIS IS WHY HE PISSES ME OFF) IS THE BEST IN THE DIV… NO DOUBT. YANKS LOVE HIM CONTRARY TO POP BELEIF.. I DO ANYWAY. BUT HE IS FRIGGIN INDECISIVE AND IT MAKES HIM LOOK LIKE A COWARD… CALZAGHE… BEST # 168
I think he thinks that they put something in Lacy’s water ;D
It looked to me that ibragimov took almost every round. I don’t know how they got a draw out of this fight. It was nowhere near a slugfest, but also, it was no where near a draw either.
How about we have a new rule:
If the fight is close, you cant call it a robbery, even if the guy you were rooting for lost.
This is like Taylor vs Wright all over again
a draw was totally fair, and as hulk said, Austin should have had 2 10-8 rounds but one clear kd was scored a slip. they both looked like shite anyway, so who cares?