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Scotland’s Josh Taylor is planning to move up to welterweight following his controversial split decision victory over mandatory challenger Jack Catterall at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland on Saturday night.
Judge Howard Foster saw the fight 113-112 for Catterall, overruled by Ian John-Lewis and Victor Loughlin who scored the fight for Taylor 114-111 and 113-112 respectively.
The result was enough to prompt the British Boxing Board of Control to announce they will be investigating the scoring.
However, Top Rank president Todd DuBoef believes there is a need to greater education when scoring a fight. Speaking to Sky Sports, DuBoef said:
“It was a terrific event; the energy in that arena was amazing”
“It was a close fight and a very difficult fight to score.
“I really believe that what we need to do is to modernise boxing. We haven’t moved forward.
“The fact we have subjective scoring means we have to get better. We have to apply further education courses – we need to know that everybody is taught the same way on how to score a round.
“We have to notify both camps on what is expected from you, from the judges on this night in the UK – which could vary if you were taught in New York, or California or Australia.”
Meanwhile, MTK Global have released a statement after fighters and their families were verbally attacked and even death threats were made.
MTK Global Statement:
Following the Josh Taylor vs. Jack Catterall fight on Saturday, MTK Global is saddened and deeply concerned to learn of insults, personal attacks and even death threats targeting the fighters, their partners and their families. This has to stop immediately.
Boxing has always been a sport that unites communities and supports one another and regardless of Saturday night’s outcome, both Josh and Jack respect each other as men, as athletes and as fans of the sport they have dedicated their lives to. Not only have they endured sacrifice and gruelling training camps away from their families and partners in the lead up to this bout, but their families have sacrificed for the sport too and we ask the public, and the boxing community to respect that and offer their support instead of fuelling an already extremely emotional situation.
We ask you to remember that, no matter what the fighters, their teams, their peers, or fight fans believe the result should have been, the decision was not in their hands, but lay in the hands of judging officials and it is our understanding the British Boxing Board of Control are now conducting their own investigation, which we fully encourage.
We have always been honoured to work with both Josh and Jack and are immensely proud of all that they have achieved over the years, both entering the ring as undefeated fighters and showing the world what home grown talent Scotland and England have to offer, and the fans who flocked in their droves to witness the very first UK unification fight in the history of boxing.
MTK Global has always been a family and we ask you to support our family and their families as they look forward to what we know is going to be an incredible rematch in the very near future.
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