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PETERBOROUGH
OCTOBER 17
MAIN EVENT
UNDERCARD
BOXING. There is nothing quite like it, is there? No other sport has the capacity to excite, infuriate or court controversy in equal measures (maybe until VAR’s introduction into football).
And there you have Matchroom’s latest offering in Peterborough in a nutshell where Lewis Ritson’s 12-round split decision points win for the WBA intercontinental super-lightweight belt over Mexico’s champion Miguel Vazquez provoked such outrage on social media.
The debate over the scoring, sadly, detracted somewhat from a terrific night’s entertainment featuring blood, guts, glory and upsets.
But the word ‘upset’ does not come close to encapsulating some of the
