By Peter Wells:
Scott Quigg’s WBA ‘regular’ Super Bantamweight title will be next on the radar for Oscar Escandon who won possibly the worst decision of the year when he somehow took a split decision after he was dominated over 12 rounds by Tyson Cave.
Not only was it by far the worst decision of the year, but one would be hard pressed to find a worse decision in the last 20+ years.
Escandon, while the aggressor, and that term is used very lightly, was inactive throughout the contest, and outside a handful of right crosses that landed on the chin of Cave while he was wheeling away, it was a poor performance from the fighter considered the puncher.
Cave does display a far from pleasing style for most boxing observants, but that provides no excuse for the terrible scoring of a contest, that was fought on the outside throughout. Cave snapped out punches from all sorts of angles. On he other end Escandon remained confused as how to slow the Canadian down, and he never found a way on the inside on a consistent basis.
Escandon won maybe 2 or 3 rounds at the very most yet somehow two judges found the Colombian as the victor, 115-113 and 117-111, while the other judge only gave Cave the contest 115-113.
If boxing has any justice then it will be Tyson Cave and not Escandon that will be stepping in the ring to challenge Quigg for his world crown next year. But as tonight showed, justice is very hard to find in this sport.
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