Another Black Eye for Boxing

On Saturday night HBO Boxing showed a pay-per-view boxing event that featured Sugar Shane Mosley vs Miguel

Cotto in what was a largely hyped fight that for the most part according to boxing experts lived up to the hype.  On a night that boxing should have been thrilled to have it's main event live up to the hype, it instead unfortunately illustrated yet again how poor scoring by ringside judges can often leave a bad taste in the mouths of boxing fans.  In a lightweight title fight on the Cotto-Mosley undercard Joel Casamayor defended his title against challenger Santa Cruz.  In a match that challenger Santa Cruz dominated throughout, forcing Casamayor backwards, and even knocking him down once in the first round, judges ruled the fight a win for Casamayor in a split decision.  Unofficial scorers from ESPN and Harold Lederman from HBO had the fight a 119-108 and 118-109 victory respectively for Santa Cruz.  Boxing is now faced with a challenge of what to do, most likely they will force the judges to explain their scorecards, and take it from there.  Unfortunately for Santa Cruz, that does little to correct the injustice he faced that evening.  To read more as well as results of other recent boxing matches check out this article by ESPN author Dan Rafael.

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