worst judging?

[henryhenry]

need help on obscure trivia:

in sports with subjective scoring (skating, gymnastics, diving, boxing, whatever) - what were some of the most disputed or grossly ridiculous outcomes?

 

[Shaggy]

Roy Jones Jr. in the Olympics

The good ol' figure skating scandal in 2002

 

[Bud_Bundy]

Any East German judges in figure skating.

 

[Ellis Redding]

I believe Nancy Kerrigan actually beat Oksana Baiul in the '94 Lillehammer Games, but an arithmetic error gave the gold to Baiul.

Also, Jamie Sale and Pelletiere (sp?); and Paul Hamm's all-around gold in the Athens Games.

 

[sportschick]

Ice dancing has had several disputed results over the years. That's probably the dirtiest of the ice skating disciplines, which is dirty in general.

 

[Franklin]

the entire 1988 olympic boxing competition was a fiasco

 

[dixiehack]

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0060_0393_ZS.html

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/search/display.html?terms=plessy%20v%20ferguson&url=/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0163_0537_ZO.html

 

[friend of the friendless]

Sirs, Madames,

Boxing: Some will say Roy Jones in Seoul but he won three rounds of a three round fight. More extreme is at 118 and one of the great champs, Carlos Zarate getting jobbed against Lupe Pintor -- it was a virtual 15-round shutout for Zarate and the judges' scoring was just all over the place. Like they agreed to lie but couldn't keep the story straight.

Hockey: Kerry Fraser's blind-eye to 99's swordwork, LA vs Leafs 93.

Misc.: Orenthal.

YHS, etc

 

[WSKY]

Ice dancing has had several disputed results over the years. That's probably the dirtiest of the ice skating disciplines, which is dirty in general.

he said sports

 

[Batman]

There was a Holyfield-Lewis heavyweight title fight (pretty sure it was them) that ended in a draw. Must've been the late 90s or early 2000s. The judge who scored it even was way off from the other judges, and later explained it by saying she had a bad angle for watching the fight.

 

[joe king]

I don't have the energy or the motivation to look the details, but Holyfield got jobbed big-time in the Olympics, as I recall.

And the skating thing where the Russians paid the French judge to out the fix in for their skaters -- or something like that -- in Salt Lake City.

 

[John]

the entire 1988 olympic boxing competition was a fiasco

Is that when Holyfield got robbed? He was beating the **** out of the guy, but not hitting him in "scoring" spots, according to the (insane) judges.

 

[Franklin]

the entire 1988 olympic boxing competition was a fiasco

Is that when Holyfield got robbed? He was beating the **** out of the guy, but not hitting him in "scoring" spots, according to the (insane) judges.

holyfield lost in 84. in 88 a bunch of judges and refs (well over a dozen) were suspended for generally crappy performance--most notably in the roy jones fight. there were all sorts of rumors about fixes, etc.

 

[Keystone]

Men's basketball, 72 Olympics

 

[henryhenry]

would leonard-hagler 87 count as a bad decision?

 

[boots]

would leonard-hagler 87 count as a bad decision?

That's tops along with the 1972 Olympic basketball game between the USA and Russia.

 

[Moderator1]

Whitaker-Chavez, 1993 in San Antonio. As thorough an asskicking as you'll ever see in boxing. A judge from an earlier fight was sitting next to me and said, "Lord, I don't know that Chavez has won a round."
The call? A draw. So blatant a **** job that the heavily Hispanic crowd booed like crazy. They knew.
Sports Illustrated used "robbed" as its cover headline.

 

[boots]

Whitaker-Chavez, 1993 in San Antonio. As thorough an asskicking as you'll ever see in boxing. A judge from an earlier fight was sitting next to me and said, "Lord, I don't know that Chavez has won a round."
The call? A draw. So blatant a **** job that the heavily Hispanic crowd booed like crazy. They knew.
Sports Illustrated used "robbed" as its cover headline.

Yeah, I agree. I was there but to be honest, I wasn't THAT surprised.

 

[Moderator1]

Not surprised at what? That Whitaker got ****ed or that he kicked Chavez' ass?

 

[BTExpress]

Men's basketball, 72 Olympics

That's never bothered me for a couple of reasons:

1. The controversial last 3 seconds was preceded by 39 minutes of the most godawful coaching in the annals of basketball.

2. The screwup at the end was more confusion than robbery. Was a timeout called? Was the USSR entitled to one? Did the proper information get relayed to the scorekeeper? Did the button the coaches press to request a timeout work properly? Why did that horn go off prematurely and the clock not reset properly on the USSR's so-called "second" attempt?

3. After all was said and done, the game was still in the USA's hands, and they had a 99 percent chance of winning. They just choked, like Kentucky did against Duke in 1992.