Zute for Thought

It has been a little over a week since Thomas Mattice was given a gift in his fight against Zhora Hamazaryan. The nice way of saying Zhora was robbed. Here we go again with boxing.

Indeed, Team Hamazaryan is going to file an appeal and the usual suspects flocked to Twitter to express outrage. But I ask, what is really going to happen? My guess is zilch, nada, zero; believe me.

Why do I say such things? A black cloud in the very first paragraph you ask? One word. Reality. The reality in boxing is that for every awful decision, you have at least ten know it all’s- and we have plenty of those in boxing- crow that they have seen much worse. Then there are some who defend the robbery. Even if they agree that it is a bad decision they still say it was not a robbery.

I love that one.

Although with this fight the sentiment seems to be the same across the board. Disgusting decision. With that sit, robberies have been normalized in boxing to the point we have itemized bad decisions and robberies. All that does is make it so murky, the consequences are minimal at best.

A decision that tainted an otherwise very entertaining ShoBox. Young fighters were matched up tough, you know the way they only did in the good ol’ days, and all of the fighters gave it their best.

But such is boxing.

Speaking of ShoBox, the draw between Montana Love and Kenneth Sims Jr. brought up another pet peeve of mine, from the sport I love so much. Why in the world are all boxing matches set for even rounds? Four rounds, six rounds, eight rounds, ten rounds, 12 rounds. Why?????

Do I really need to get into why this is a bad idea? Say what you want about MMA, but they have this correct, as their fights are either three or five rounds. If there is some foolish superstition attached to the reason, can we at least have a tiebreaker round implement in these fights? At least the championship fights?

Speaking of foolish, it is bad enough that American television dropped the ball by not airing the very successful, as well as entertaining, cruiserweight tournament, it appears as if we are going to be blacked out of the very much anticipated Dillian Whyte vs. Joseph Parker fight. Indeed, this is a big matchup. As far as I can tell it is a nice, even fight.

The winner should secure a title shot against one of the champions. Yet, Americans have to jump through hoops to have to watch it. Sigh.

Speaking of much anticipated, are you feeling GGG vs. Canelo 2 fever yet? I am not. As much as I try, I cannot get excited about this rematch. And, unless the fight produces fireworks, I probably will not. Indeed, I will watch, it is what I do. However, I am having a hard time getting eager about a fight that had, in my mind, a decisive winner the first time around, and, was not all that exciting. It was just okay for me.