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[Jack 1000]

Shocked no comments about it!

For starters, I only saw the last round, and Teddy Atlas' rant. The local Cuban out of Miami (Barthelemy) got what appeared to be a horrible hometown unanimous decision over the Canadian Usnamee. Most observers, based on what I have read, had Usmanee between 116-112 to 115-113. Atlas had it 117-111 for Usmanee:

Starts about 1:08.

What do you think about Teddy's demand for a federal boxing commission? I would support a national commission, but don't trust the feds to run it:

http://sosoboxing.com/boxing-video-watch-o...-fullbroadcast/

Jack

[Jack 1000]

I think some reasons for the outrage could be:

1.) Not one official judge gave Usamnee the fight, in a match that it seemed 75% had him winning from 115-113 to 117-111. At least Bradley-Pacquiao, which I thought was a lot closer than HBO had, (scored 116-113 for Manny) had a split decision.

2.) If those cards would have had one card for Usmnee, it would have reflected a closer fight from the officials.

3.) I don't think there was corruption here, but the two judges Doresett and Green simply gave all close rounds to the hometown fighter, (Barthelmy) and there were close rounds according to many people.

Jack