Trooper Thorn said:JD1986 said:Trooper Thorn said:The only time Woods mixed with a genuine top shelf fighters like Tarver was against Roy Jones, where Clinton got totally humiliated, and Glenn Johnson, where Clinton looked average in all three of their fights including their first fight which Woods clearly lost but got a hometown draw out of it.
Julio Gonzalez,Rico Hoye and Jason DeLisle weren't world class opposition.
This is supposed to be a site where we are supportive of white athletes, Trooper Thorn.
Theres a difference between support and delusion.
The post you made about the Steve Cunningham vs Marco Huck fight where Huck got totally outboxed in ten out of the twelve rounds and you said that Huck was doing fine and lost because the black ref was against him even though said ref let hook get away with blatant elbowing and clinching without taking a point, is a good example of the latter.
The opponents that Woods looked good against (Johnson,Hoye,Delisle,Gonzalez) were all come forward fighters who stood toe to toe came right at you.
When Woods, a boxer with no real amatuer pedigree, went up against slick former 96 Olmypian Tarver, he never got to grips with Tarver's southpaw stance and movement. Simple as that. Not because his friend died. Dog died. The weather. anything.
Woods is a solid but limitied fighter with a lot of heart and guts but just under world class as was proved in 2002 with his debacle against Roy Jones.
If you want to me to be like you and put my head in the sand and try to come up with laughable excuses for his loss because he is white then I'm sorry to dissappoint you.
P.S: I said Cortez's breaking up with Hatton on the inside with Mayweather was no worse than what he did when he quickly and constantly broke up Hatton and Castillo. Which it wasn't.
I'm not hostile towards anyone on this site, but you're wrong here Trooper. Huck was not totally outboxed. He was up on one card, closely behind on another, and losing by a bit on the third. He was hardly outclassed. I don't think there was a conspiracy against him either. i just think he's a young fighter with tremendous potential who was not yet ready for that fight.
woods has greatly improved since his fight with RJJ. He just didn't fight as well as he normally does. Did that have to do with Tarver's skills and style? Absolutely. But, there may have been other factors as well.
Let's face it. No one complains more about decisions and "discriminations" than black athletes. If a white fighter loses it's not unreasonable to wonder why, especially if his opponent is shown as superhuman as Tarver is. Anyone remember how Elvir Muriqi got robbed against Tarver?