The boxing world cries 'theft' after a shameful referee error that Gervonta Davis saved from a shock destruction against Lamont Roach on Saturday evening.
Davis, generally considered one of the best pound-for-pound hunters on the planet, was lucky to escape with a draw in a match from him was expected after a very similar moment in the ninth round in Barclays Center.
After Roach had landed a right hand, the WBA light weight champion declined before he did not bizarre a knee and went to his corner, which he later revealed that the fat fought after a recent hair appointment.
However, boxing fans quickly remembered when referee Steve Willis could not score inexplicably as a knockdown for the challenger, despite the fact that he initially started with an eight count.
The civil servant stopped his count at two hours before he could be heard against Davis: “What's going on man?”
After the champion tried to explain why he took a knee to briefly take the game in half of the game, Willis told him before resuming the fight: “I understand, but if you take such a knee, it looks like a knockdown.”
The boxing world cries 'theft' after a huge referee error that Gervonta Davis saved
Davis was spared a knock -down by referee Steve Willis despite taking a knee in the fight
After that amazing blunder, Roach was forced to settle for a majority of the drawing thanks to the scores of two judges of 114-114 and a judgment of 115-113 in favor of Davis.
If Willis had correctly mentioned a knockdown in the ninth, the underdog would have been created with a stunning upset victory in Brooklyn.
Two-weight undisputed King Terence Crawford led the online anger after the controversial result and it insisted that Roach was 'robbed' of a historical victory in the night.
“Roach won and that should have been called a knock -down. Let's see what happens, “wrote Crawford on X before he added:” They robbed that boy and it's crazy. “
He then explained in another message: 'I have never seen anyone take a knee and they don't count it like a knock -down. Must forget the rules for tonight. '
Boxing fans are completely in accordance with Crawford, smoking that Davis was spared from a clear knock -down in the ninth round.
'Robbed in broad -light man. With cameras in every corner, “said a user.
Another noticed: 'It should be a knockdown. Roach won that. '
A third place: 'Damn, all sports that are rigged SMH'.
A Davis supporter admitted: 'Yes. I am a huge tank fan, but I cannot defend this. I've never seen anything like that. Wild!'
“Such a shame that they robbed an underdog,” concluded one fifth.
Another asked, “Is taking a knee now allowed?”
While people simply said: 'rigged'.
According to Dazn Boxing reporter Chris Mannix, Davis – better known as 'tank' – could even have been disqualified because he had taken a time -out to be confronted by his corner.
'SMS' with three experienced boxing referees ', Mannix revealed on X.' Everything agrees: the knee should have been called a knockdown.
“It was noted that tank could have been disqualified because he had swept his face through his corner.”
Davis clarified after the draw – which goes down when the first spot on his 31 -fight record – that he only wanted to wipe his face because of a burning sensation caused by a hair product that runs in his eyes.
Davis claims that he had to go to his corner and wiped fat out of his eyes
But Roach is determined, it should have been a knockdown, which would have given him a victory
“I didn't want to be caught while my eyes were burning,” he emphasized. “And you can't be disabled. So I'd rather take the knee. But I didn't really know that you can get the disqualified for all that. When [Willis] I started counting, I have something like: “What the hell is it?” '
Roach in the meantime believes that he was robbed of a precious victory at night.
'If that is a knockdown, I win the fight. I am a bit disappointed in the decision, I thought I had taken it out. I definitely thought I won. We can walk it back, “he said. “It's a victory for me in my book, but we are not satisfied with that, we have a real W.”
“It should have been a knockdown. If that was knockdown, I win the fight. He says Grease has come to his eyes, but if he takes a knee and the referee starts counting, it should be a knockdown. It is what it is. I'm not on that knock -down to win. I just thought I had pulled it out. '
