Miguel Cotto vs Canelo Alvarez FIght News: Former champion believes he won 8 out of 12 rounds against Alvarez
Former middleweight world champion Miguel Cotto is not happy with how the judges scored his fight against Saul "Canelo" Alvarez recently.
In a report by Primera Hora, the Puerto Rican boxer believes he won a great majority of the rounds, and should have been awarded with the victory.
"When you have the opportunity to master eight of the twelve rounds, you do not expect anything less than victory," Cotto simply said.
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All three judges scored the bout in favor of Alvarez. Burt Clemens gave a tally of 118-110, John McKaie scored it 117-111, and Dave Moretti had it 119-109. Right after the bout, Cotto's trainer Freddie Roach also cried foul over the scoring.
According to the seven-time Boxing Writers Association of America Trainer of the Year awardee, the victory should have been given to them since he believes they actually outscored Alvarez.
"We thought it was much closer than the scorecards showed. It was a very competitive fight. Miguel's defense was unbelievable," Roach said. "I actually thought we outscored him. HBO spoke to me between rounds and I never thought we were in danger of losing the fight. I thought we outscored him in the fight, but the judges thought different."
Even retired undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather believes the bout should have been scored a lot closer.
"I do think the fight was a lot closer than 119-109," Mayweather said about Moretti's judging. "That is f****** ridiculous. In my opinion – I'm not saying this is what happened – but in my opinion, either somebody is handpicking these judges or something is going on that's not right."
This is not the first time the judges have been questioned about their method of scoring fights. There have been cases when fights have been marred by controversy because of one judge.
Over the last three years, judge C.J. Ross caught flak because of how he judged the first fight of Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley in June 2012, and the bout between Floyd Mayweather and Canelo Alvarez in 2013.
