You posted, so you tell us.

Official decisions trump everything. Byrd shouldn't move down in rankings for WINNING. Vitali shouldn't leapfrog six other fighters for LOSING (by TKO). Until he'd beaten Sanders, Vitali Klitschko had never beaten anyone in Ring magazine's Top 10. But this misses the point. Ring is a magazine, and t...

As much as I don't like the sacntioning bodies, I think it makes sense to draw the line there. They sanction the fights; The Ring sanctions nothing. Further, if boxrec started recognizing Ring champs, they would also have to recognize lineal champs, USA Today champs, Maxboxing.com champs, eastsidebo...

What if the roles were reversed and it was Clazaghe who went down 2nd. :roll: Do U think the referee would have stopped it? :-? In Joe’s hometown? :lol: I wonder where the term hometown decision came from? :roll: I'm not arguing whether or not the stoppage was controversial (I think it was a bad st...

No problem. I'll add others as I find them. Here's another that's not noted (Holyfield/Tyson): http://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/boxing/tyson-holyfield/stories/downout.html Holyfield, 215, knocked Tyson down with a left hook in the sixth round with 37 seconds. Tyson went down on the seat of his pa...

For Ward vs. Gatti I, Gatti was knocked down in the ninth round by a left hook to the body.

If you see any controversial decision tags in bouts during the last 30 years, post them here. We will then delete them. What about "controversial stoppage"? "Controversial stoppage. Calzaghe down for the first time in his career in Round 2, but gets up to floor Mitchell less than a m...

For Freitas vs. Ramirez, a knockdown was called against Freitas in the second round: Freitas rallied from a disputed second-round knockdown to deck Ramirez twice in the third. The champion continued to punish Ramirez with both hands in the fourth before the referee stepped in to stop the proceedings...

"Mayweather suffered the first knockdown of his career when his right glove touched the canvas in the sixth round"

Sounds like a fair way to note it.

I also noticed the Freitas comments were deleted.

Thanks for the updates, guys.

Is anyone going to address this? Are only some knockdown calls noted? If so, why? You should either note them all or none of them. You also need to figure out a system for editorializing knockdown calls. The following appears in the Freitas/Grigorian entry: Grigorian down four times. Three of the &q...

Thanks, tegenm.

As far as I know, if the fighter is unable to get to his feet by 10, it's a KO. A TKO is any other kind of stoppage.

I think Nady got to 10. Buffer's comments sort of indicate this; I think he'd be announcing exactly what Nady told him to.

I posted this in the Current section, but I have a feeling it'll garner a bunch or moronic replies, so I'm also posting it here. The AP and the WBA Online report it was a TKO2, but boxrec and FightNews report (correctly, in my opinion) that Nady got to 10, and thus it was a KO2. I think Buffer also ...

Mayweather suffered a knockdown in round six. From: http://espn.go.com/boxing/news/2001/0526/1205368.html "Mayweather, 24, suffered the first knockdown of his career when his right glove touched the canvas in the sixth round. He wasn't hit, but was given a standing eight count by referee Dale G...

See this thread:

http://www.boxrec.com/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... l+decision

Also see the thread on this page called "Two Questions."

tegenm wrote:If you see any controversial decision tags in bouts during the last 30 years, post them here. We will then delete them.

Bowe-Tubbs
Holmes-Spinks
Holmes-Spinks II
Holmes-C.Williams
Holmes-'Spoon
E.Morales-Barrera
E.Morales-Barrera II
E.Morales-Espades
Ali-Norton II
Ali-Norton III
Ali-Young

I really don't care if "dives" aren't noted. The fighter who takes a dive should have the ugly KO mark on his record without explanation if he's willing to do something so dishonorable. Lewis/Holyfield is one of the worst decisions in heavyweight CHAMPIONSHIP history, so I don't see the co...

The worst part is that not all of the "controversial decision" comments have been removed, just some of them. So while the first Holyfield vs. Lewis fight is labeled just "DRAW," irrelevant fights such as Larry Holmes vs. Mo Harris still have the controversial tag. In my opinion,...

Lennox Lewis' IBF belt disappears from his record without explanation. It should be noted how that belt was lost—i.e., whether he vacated to avoid fighting Chris Byrd, or whether he was stripped for failing to fight Chris Byrd.

Petty question, but why is Miguel Cotto's middle name ("Angel") displayed on his record? The few times I've seen him fight, I've never heard the ring announcer or commentators use it. (Is that a middle name?)

Just curious.

This crap keeps clogging up my boxing searches on digital cable. I just figured it was Playboy playmates fighting or something; I didn't realize it was PPV tape-delayed professional boxing.

And Vitali/Sanders is a part of that line...how?

What about Botha/Shultz?

Kudos, boxrec editors! I see the Vitali note was changed:

"After the 9th round Klitschko claimed a injured shoulder and the bout was stopped. He was later diagnosed with a torn rotator cuff."

Sounds objective to me.

I see your point, but it seems to me that the goal of boxrec's editorial comments is to avoid subjectivity and to report facts. Just because Vitali started feeling pain in the third round doesn't mean he separated his shoulder during that round. The fact that Vitali said it doesn't make it "obj...