Comments on: Why Do We Think Boxing Is Dirtier Than Tennis Despite the Facts?

By: Jose Canseco to Fight Former NFL All-Pro; Cooler Heads Avert Eyes

Jose Canseco to Fight Former NFL All-Pro; Cooler Heads Avert Eyes — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:58:57 +0000

[...] this is a pro wrestling blog too, but that’s beside the point. Last week in our really long Why Do We Think Boxing Is Dirtier Than Tennis Despite the Facts? post we pondered (A) boxing’s incorrect reputation for dirty fixed fights and (B) its subsequent [...]

By: Michael Sedor

Michael Sedor — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:44:25 +0000

weren’t a few of Butterbean and NY Jet Mark Gastineau’s fights in the 90’s fixed to pad their stats as well?

still, I doubt that there were any betting lines on those fights. everyone knew they were fixed.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:32:16 +0000

Thanks for the kind words.

I think you have to go back to reporting from 1999 to find a demonstrably proven boxing scandal — when George Foreman’s opponents from earlier in that decade were taking dives to help him boost his record in his aged years. But since, nothing. And things had even been largely quiet before that for a good long while, with the IBF’s pay-for-rankings scandal the next most recent. Either way, it was all on the periphery — not like the major boxers of the 50s who had to take dives to please the mob.