By Scott Gilfoid: The three judges that worked the Erislandy Lara vs. Paul Williams fight have been suspended by the New Jersey State Athletic Board according to Dan Rafael at ESPN. Williams won the fight by a 12 round majority decision by the scores of 115-114, 116-114 and 114-114.

However, New Jersey commissioner Arron Davis is suspending the judges and will require that they take extra training before they are allowed to continue. The judges met with the New Jersey State Athletic Board and they reviewed the fight round by round and couldn’t find any case of “Bias, fraud, corruption or incapacity on the part of the judges.”

As such, the results of the fight will stand and the New Jersey State Athletic Board doesn’t have the power to call for a rematch. They do think that a rematch is needed but that’s just an opinion.

I think this is silly. The judges did a fine job of scoring the fight. It was a close fight and their scores reflected that. Lara may have been landing clean left hands from time to time, but Williams was hitting him constantly with shots that looked even harder. And Lara was running all the time and it looked bad. When you got a runner like Lara trying to escape from the pressure from a big guy like Williams, of course the referees are going to tend to score rounds for Williams.

It doesn’t matter that Lara would connect with a left hand from time to time, Williams was putting hands on Lara and imposing his will. Lara had no power in his shots and it wasn’t impressive to see him throwing occasional left hands when he was getting hit a lot by Williams.

I think the boxing world need to accept that the better man won the fight. Williams was better and deserved to win. If Lara wants to win fights, he needs to stop running so much and develop some power.