Boxing News

PATHOLOGICAL CONTROVERSY

Matt Christie

@MattCBoxingNews

Editor

SCORING fights and the system of doing so is the most debated subject in boxing. This week’s Boxing News highlights that the difference in opinion on the matter is stark.

Whether it’s Mikaela Mayer feeling aggrieved, Natasha Jonas feeling relieved or Maxi Hughes feeling cheated (after George Kambosos, the man who beat him so contentiously last year, was awarded the golden ticket to face Vasyl Lomachenko), it’s abundantly clear that the sport is yet to devise a workable solution to the omnipresent and almost pathological risk of

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