Ringside judges Alan Davis and Benoit Roussel both should be banned from boxing, and should never be allowed within 5 miles of a scoring table ever again. Both men scored the Ali Funeka vs Joan Guzman fight 114/114, scores that are so ridiculous that words can't describe it. Funeka busted up Guzman for 10 of the 12 rounds, and appeared by anyone with two functioning eyes to be cruising to a lopsided unanimous decision and world title victory. Judge Joseph Pasquale scored the bout 116/112 for Funeka, the only one that remotely came close to scoring the fight correctly.
Time and time again the sport of boxing has to endure complete incompetence by either corrupt judges, or judges that are too stupid to be allowed to sit ringside. These fighters train their hearts out, fighting is how they pay their bills. It's a crying shame that it takes two idiots like Alan Davis and Benoit Roussel to squash the dreams of a warrior from South Africa named Ali Funeka. What in the world were these two guys looking at? Both judges should be required to sit down in front of a 57 inch television screen with a boxing commission behind them, and have to watch this fight all over again, and then made to explain to each commisioner how they arrived at 114/114 scores.
Both of these judges need to be immediately stripped of their judging privileges, and banned from the sport. This has gone on too many times now. There are too many great fighters that are being robbed by people who never even laced up a glove that are either corrupt, or just plain stupid. We do not know which category these two clowns are in yet, but it's either they are corrupt, or they are not intelligent enough to correctly score a boxing match.
Promoter Gary Shaw was screaming in the ring, and rightfully so I might add. HBO's Max Kellerman who usually does a stand up job with the microphone, in my opinion should have given Shaw a few seconds to speak his peace on national television. The judges should have been publicly called out, and Shaw probably was going to do it, or would have come close to doing it.
HBO needs to do what's right here and immediately grant Funeka a nationally televised rematch against Guzman. Shaw did the right thing by praising Guzman's heart, and didn't vent his frustrations at the fighter. Guzman knows that he was given a gift. Guzman did fight hard, it was just that he was beaten fair and square by a better fighter. The look on Funeka's face was hard to watch. A look of utter shock, and confusion came across the fighters face as the scores were read. Once again, judges, (if you want to call them that) stink up the sport, and give it yet one more black eye. Way to go Mr Davis, way to go Mr Roussel, good looking out for boxing. Thanks for doing more damage to the sports credibility. Thanks for running more fans away from boxing. I am sure UFC owner Dana White will gladly welcome the fans people like two drive away from our sport.
Source: 8countnews.com
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