LAS VEGAS — Former two-division world titleholder Timothy Bradley Jr. seemed as though he had done everything he needed to do to win an energizing battle against Diego Chaves on Saturday night at the Cosmopolitan.
And after that ring commentator Michael Buffer read the scorecards: a part draw that appeared to be totally difficult to grasp and left the sellout swarm of 2,400 stunned.
"I thought I won at least eight rounds," said Bradley, with ringside media overwhelmingly favoring him by wide scorecards. "I'm not going to say it was horrible, but I'm not a judge. I maybe give him four rounds [won], max five. I was landing clean punches and felt like I won the fight."
Anyhow the authority judges are who check. Judge Burt Clements scored it 115-113 for Bradley, Julie Lederman shockingly had it 116-112 for Chaves and Craig Metcalfe had it 114-114. Espn.com had it for Bradley 119-109.
"I don't understand anymore," said Top Rank administrator Bob Arum, Bradley's promoter, including that he thought scoring was as terrible as the scoring that gave Bradley an enormously disputable part choice win against Manny Pacquiao in their first battle. "Julie Lederman [of New York] ought not be permitted to judge in this state any longer. That was the most noticeably bad choice. I had it 8-4 for Bradley. I could see it 7-5. Alright, perhaps even 114-114. Yet her scorecard for Chaves was a flat out disfavor."
Lederman's father, HBO informal judge Harold Lederman, had it 116-112 for Bradley.
"I think we do a rematch. That's fine," Arum said. "The real problem is the disparity in the scoring. It makes every one of us look insane."
The Compubox punch measurements vigorously supported Bradley, acknowledging him for arriving 225 of 572 punches (39 percent) and Chaves associating on 152 of 570 blows (27 percent).
Chavez (23-2-1, 19 Kos), 28, a hazardous brawler from Argentina, was one of the few who felt that he won.
"I felt I was the one who did most of the work in this fight," Chaves said through a translator. "At the end of the fight I was the one who stepped up. I thought it was a close fight, but I thought I won the fight."
Bradley (31-1-1, 12 KOs), 31, of Palm Springs, California, a previous welterweight and lesser welterweight titleholder, was looking to bounce back from his first official misfortune, the April rematch with Pacquiao, who effortlessly outpointed him to recover the welterweight world title Bradley guaranteed against Pacquiao in their questioned part choice in 2012, likewise in Las Vegas.
It looked like Bradley was well on his approach to beating Chaves with little sympathy toward the scoring. Bradley got off to a fantastic begin when he arrived an enormous overhand right in the first round that Chaves by one means or another took and figured out how to stay on his feet. The right hand was an enormous weapon for Bradley, who utilized it again and again, and Chaves never appeared to change in accordance with it. Bradley additionally arrived some capable body shots.
Chaves moved to 0-2-1 in the United States, having endured a sketchy ninth-round exclusion in a battle he was winning on two scorecards against Brandon Rios in August, additionally at the Cosmopolitan, and a tenth round knockout misfortune to Keith Thurman in San Antonio in July 2013 that cost him a break title.
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