Too many biased judges, referees and writers in boxing
October 19th, 2009
By Dennis Broadhurst: This article has been written to highlight the amount of people in boxing who make clearly biased actions and judgments. Last week I was at a boxing gym getting a medical examination and to watch my coach in his first amateur fight.
In the fight my coach landed a total of 18 hooks to body and head, while his opponent landed 3 jabs in the entire fight. My coach dictated the pace and landed more punches, when the fight went to the decision my coach lost with scores of 5 points to 4, the judges were local as was the fighter. At least 15 people came up to my coach after the bout and said that it was a dreadful decision.
This happened in another two fights out of the twelve that night. Judging like this will put off many up and coming fighters that could do well in amateur carers which in time will decrease the amount of pro boxers coming into the ranks. This sort of judging is also present in the pro ranks, recently we have had questionable decisions between Tyson Fury and John McDermott and also on a higher scale Malignaggi vs Diaz. This sort of judging angers fans, trainers and fighters. In fact the only people it pleases are some dodgy refs who are on the pay role and greedy promoters.
Another thing which has come to mind are some biased articles written by some of the writers on boxingnew24, not naming anyone. This kind of article does nobody favours, it just angers true boxing fans with open minds. Unless a writer is trying to convince readers of something which is explained in the title, such as my recent article titled “Why Muhammad Ali would beat Tyson”.
Articles hating on fighters such as Carl Froch and Manny Pacquaio who are world champions in their respective weight classes are completely pointless and I would like to see the writers of such articles getting into the ring with either Jean Pascal, Jermain Taylor, Ricky Hatton or Juan Manuel Marquez.
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Manuel Perez has the best articles in the world!
Siiike.. After November 14, win or loose, Perez will stop writing articles. If pacquiao wins, he said he will sop writing, if Pacquiao looses then who else would he write about? How much are you guys paying him anyways? Why is he allowed to publish such articles? You could just tell how much he hates Pacquiao. It’s kinda scary.
Very good article! I’m sick and tired of seeing boxers get robbed by these referees and especially judges. Why the hell do we need judges anymore. Why can’t we go by punchstats and knockdowns alone. The right boxer will always win regardless of where that boxer is from. Oh and yes, they should also incorporate instant replay reviews so that there won’t be any question as to whether the referee called out something he shouldn’t of called in the first place.
gloria m. arroyo calls to congatulate manny pacquaio after a victory rather than take time to spank mike for corruption…
fantastic article,well written,,keep up the good work…
scott gilford why is he allowed to right rubish on a respectable website or spose to be respectable
Good article. The sooner Scott Gilfoid, Manuel Perez and Liam Santiago realise no one is interested in what they have to say, the better.
agreed, esp amatuer boxing is a joke.fights are to short and alot of scoring blows are overlooked.
i have to disagree with dan, it depends on the judges ive seen guys who have no technique thrwoing wild punches and im not sure they even landed on the white part of the glove but if or when it lands its much more obvious because the judges see it coming,the scoring is supposed to help amatuer boxing but its making it worse.
plus cant help but think that in countries where few people from minorities box, the old white judges and referees arent going to be 2 kind
very very good article. I hope that others take note…..although unlikely they will, being that think-skinned.
I applaud this article! Certain writers have dragged this website into the gutter with numerous (and frequent) articles written with one purpose – to show hatred for certain fighters. This is bad for boxing and especially bad for this site.
A good article Darren and I am pleased that the frequent and familiar articles on here (Manny, Froch, Calzaghe & Hatton bashing) are starting to be questioned by the other more professional writers on here.
I also agree with Ashley above – the site rarely posts news articles anymore – well if they are psted it is tough to spot them amongst the many articles that are just personal blogs and rants. This is not 24HR boxing coverage.
We need more fact based articles and less personal opinion. Check out boxing scene or east side boxing. There is some opinion in there (obviously) but most articles state facts first…
Piece of advise for the amateur boxing though Dennis, try stick to throwing straight shots rather than hooks, the judges can see them and score them better =)
It is good to see fellow writers also recognise the appalling writing by a few on this site. I thought they justified the woefully sub-par writing by claiming that their articles are ‘blogs’ and therefore personal opinion rather than an educated diplomatic viewpoint.
My problem is “24hour boxing coverage” at the top of the page, it suggests a news source for boxing which should be as impartial as possible. When personal opinions are written they should be from an educated and knowlegeable standpoint.
Perez/Gilfoid are by far the worst on here. Scott recently, on more than one occasion, threatened to never write again on this site if Dirrell lost against Froch but he is still writing with no mention of the promise. About 3-4 writers on here have no integrity at all.
Thanks you people, somebody had to say it. Some of the articles on here are a joke, I just wonder why nobody has written an article on it before as I guess I am the youngest writer on the site and an older, more experienced writer may have done a better job.
Scott Gilfoid is the worst BY FAR. Followed by Manuel Perez.
Sure, Perez and Liam maybe biased. But there’s only 2 of them biased against Pac while there are thousands of stupid Pacnuthuggers who may not be writers but biased nonetheless. Y’all need Perez and Liam. LoL.
It’s about time someone stood up to these morons. Good article.
After I saw that title, Manuel Perez sudden;y comes to my mind.
Chris Williams also comes to mind.
yes very good article very very very true not only one four of them are biased writer one of them is manuel perez.
i think they’re all brainless ,the 3 stooges are smarter than scot,liam and manuela
Dennis Broadhurst knows whats up.this is the second good article in the past week!! (Al Francis wrote an interesting one about goldenboy etc).i see scrot is still banging on about Froch.hes written like 10 articles in two days on that fight.
Holy sh@t!!!!!!! Is this a real article?? I was beginning to think this site had become a home for garbage biased copy and paste articles. Seriously though good article, bout time someone said what we have all been thinking. Oh and I’m guessing the names you area looking for are manuel and Scott and yes their work is a load of b@llox
This is why Boxing is not as popular to the viewers as well as to the readers.. New meaning for BIASED (Manuel Perez)
Best article of the site!!!
very well said! but writers you are referring to on this site are shameless!!!
Couldnt agree more.
Good article.
The name Manuel Perez comes to mind but then you mentioned ‘writer’ not ‘fanboy’…
Here here, I sure hope the judges get their acts together in the rest of the tournament, because that was some crappy juding in the Dirrell-Froch fight. Just shows you better plan on knocking Froch out if you go to Nottingham or else you’re going to lose.