Floyd Mayweather 's win over Canelo Alvarez was marred by controversy that even caught Mike Tyson 's attention.Mayweather was the first man to beat CaneloHe outboxed his young challenger to win a convincing points decision, according to two of the three judges at least.However, on her scorecard, CJ Ross astonishingly scored the contest a draw at 114-114.
This mattered not to the end result, as Mayweather still emerged victorious, just by majority decision instead of a unanimous one. Regardless though, Ross' scorecard caused outrage, as she had also turned in a controversial score forFormer undisputed heavyweight world champion Tyson had his say in the media, seemingly alleging something deeper was going on.
Tyson told the Wall Street Journal: “When you’re that great and you make somebody who is a great fighter seem like a journeyman, you’re going to build animosity.“Because that’s just a human trait and that’s what this country produced - animosity, jealous, envy, drugs, chaos."It was pretty much a shutout. For her to do that - maybe her license should be revoked.Ross stepped down as a boxing judge after the fight, retiring amid the controversy, and never scored another bout again.
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