Via Adam Baskin: Mark Magsayo (24-2, 16 KOs) asserted after his match against Brandon Figueroa (24-1-1, 18 KOs) that he would have won had he not been disqualified twice by the referee last Saturday night. at the Toyota Arena in Ontario, California.
Magsayo insists that he and Figueroa are both holding and that is a normal part of the sport. However, the referee and many boxing fans on social media felt differently, seeing Magsayo hug Figueroa tightly so as not to hit him because he seemed annoyed with the blows.
During the championship rounds, Magsayo leaned forward most of the time and reacted to Figueroa nailing him with powerful kicks to the bread basket. It seemed Magsayo was bothered by those punches.
Magsayo was hugging tightly in a way that suggested he was trying to survive because he looked like he was dying and was almost stopped by the bullets to his body from Figueroa.
Along with a tight squeeze from Magsayo, we saw him fall several times in what appeared to be an escape from the powerful punches Figueroa was hurling at him.
How the umpire didn’t consider those knocks is still unclear as it appears Magsayo is reacting to escape the blows to the body like a boxer spits out their mouthpiece to escape being knocked down. down.
Another thing that annoyed Magsayo and his manager Sean Gibbons was the way the three judges were scored.
They don’t see it as a one-sided fight like the umpires did, but apparently, they’re looking at Magsayo’s body language in the second half of the fight, which shows that he’s getting tired. and severely depressed.
The scores are 117-109, 117-109 and 118-108.
“Floyd, he always does in Maidana matches. It’s normal,” said Mark Magsayo to media when asked about his two deductions for excessive holdings. “No,” Magsayo said of whether he was warned by the referee before the points were deducted.
“He said, ‘Brandon, Mark, stop, stop.’ That’s your right. We’re holding and holding, and that second deduction, we’re punching and then a deduction.”
“He was punching when he scored. How did that happen? manager Sean Gibbons said. “I don’t know how three people see it differently from the thousands upon thousands of people watching,” Gibbons said of the three judges giving the score too broad.
“We’ve all been into boxing for a long time and we find the decisions odd. They changed one of the judges.”
“I think I’ll move to 130,” Magsayo said.
“He was feeling up to 130 before this opportunity came. We got to 130, and then Figueroa came in,” Gibbons said. “He said, ‘For this kind of fight, I’ll do it again.’ As you have seen, it is not easy. That also took something away from him.
“Without two deductions, I felt like I was going to win the match,” Magsayo said. “I hit him clearly with strong punches, and he got injured. He pushed me down,” Magsayo said of the times he fell in battle.
“The referee should do something about the shoving. Mark was bending over a little, and he [Figueroa] leaning,” Gibbons said.
“I was like this [Magsayo bending forward at the waist], and he pushed me like that,” Magsayo said. “It’s hard to come up because he’s hugging you.”
