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I thought Reggis Johnson, Mike McCallum, Dave Tiberi and Rahman all beat James Toney.

Chris Eubank got a few presents, also.

Nikolai Valuev was awarded wins over Taras Bidenko, Larry Donald, John Ruiz X2, Evander Holyfield.

Ali got a few in his later boxing years.

Some British dude named Jamie McDonnell I think it was, was very lucky with gift decisions recently.

Eubank got some gifts, Ray Close some lumps of coal.

Guess we have to be careful with the term gifted. I take it to mean fights where it the guy clearly shouldn't have got the decision. Witherspoon won a ton of close fights. The majority of decisions that Ali won has been argued about. Pedroza had four title defenses where he could have got a loss and didn't.

Sven Ottke got a bunch of the judges and referees aided wins.

Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑20 Nov 2022, 19:21 Guess we have to be careful with the term gifted. I take it to mean fights where it the guy clearly shouldn't have got the decision. Witherspoon won a ton of close fights. The majority of decisions that Ali won has been argued about. Pedroza had four title defenses where he could have got a loss and didn't.

Exactly.
There is a big difference between a robbery and a debatable decision.
Fans of the boxer who lost a tight decision or got a draw in a fight that reasonably could have went his way jump up and scream "robbery" every time.
Those people are whining cry babies who deserve to be treated as such.
90% of the time these whiners cry about decisions it was actually a close fight that reasonably could have been scored for either fighter.

keithmoonhangover wrote: ↑20 Nov 2022, 08:04
Chris Eubank got a few presents, also.

Yes, as a big fan of Eubank there's no denying he got lucky in decisions against the likes of Close, Schommer, Amaral...
He was also fortunate in his fight with Dan Sherry. I remember when it was stopped and went to the cards, I didn't think he'd won...but there you go!

milpool wrote: ↑21 Nov 2022, 14:35

keithmoonhangover wrote: ↑20 Nov 2022, 08:04
Chris Eubank got a few presents, also.

Yes, as a big fan of Eubank there's no denying he got lucky in decisions against the likes of Close, Schommer, Amaral...
He was also fortunate in his fight with Dan Sherry. I remember when it was stopped and went to the cards, I didn't think he'd won...but there you go!

As well as the names you mentioned, I was sure Watson beat him in the first fight. I scored wins for Sugar Boy Malinga, Tony Thornton and Benn in the remtach

Ottke, Pedroza, Sturm (although he got a couple of questionable Ls as well), Erdei all got a good number of close/questionable decisions

Chris John