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Ripoff: Bradley Decisions Pacquiao?
There’s no denying the sinking feeling that boxing has not only lost its way, but that it doesn’t even care that it has lost its way…
In one of the worst decisions in the long and contentious history of boxing, three Las Vegas judges, aka The Three Stooges, awarded Timothy Bradley (29-0, 12 KOs) a split-decision victory, while robbing Manny Pacquiao (54-2-2, 38 KOs) of his WBO welterweight title, in a fight which he clearly did not win.
Maybe we should be used to this by now. Lord knows we’ve seen it happen enough times that it should no longer come as a surprise. Yet there’s no denying the sinking feeling that boxing has not only lost its way, but that it doesn’t even care that it has lost its way. What then does boxing care about? I’m not sure I have the answer.
This has been an especially painful year for the sport, what with crappy decision following crappy decision, what with big fights biting the dust because champions tested positive for steroids. Under the circumstances, it would seem logical, assuming the notion of self-preservation was in play, that the powers that be would do all they could to try to restore some credibility to a sport whose credibility has been questioned more times than a pathological liar taking a polygraph. But that would make sense, and sense has no part in the theater of the unexpected, which is also the theater of the absurd and the theater of the flesh.
If it hasn’t already stated, there will be more justification crowding the airwaves than you can toss a stick it or avoid. Excuses and clichés will fill the air like canned music at Symphony Hall. “Boxing is subjective,” we’ll hear again and again. “It’s difficult to score a boxing match.” While that may be true in the larger scheme of things, let’s be real and stop kidding ourselves. What we’re dealing with is something other than subjectivity or that lack thereof. We’ve just witnessed another instance where an obvious victory is denied the true winner—and no mealy-mouthed explanations will suffice… |
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发表于 2012-6-10 14:24:50
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