By Dan Ambrose: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is in perfect agreement with the 10 round unanimous decision handed down by 3 judges for his fighter Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (47-1-1, 32 KO’s) over Bryan Vera (23-7, 14 KO’s) last Saturday night at the StubHub Center, in Carson, California, USA.
While the vast majority of people feel that the three judges robbed Vera, Arum not surprisingly is in agreement with the judge’s scores of 98-92, 96-94 and 97-93. Arum thinks that the cruiserweight sized Chavez Jr’s shots did more damage than Vera’s punches.
What’s interesting about that is Chavez Jr. is the one that looked beat up after the fight and not Vera.
Arum told RingTV “Boxing got it right. I thought so…I had Chavez Jr. winning the fight, 6-4 in rounds. The way I remember scoring to be is that the guys who throw the most authoritative and damaging punches get credit for that, not the guys that just slap around.”
I wouldn’t consider Vera’s punches as slapping. They seemed to be thrown with a lot of power, and they definitely had Chavez Jr’s face badly swollen up by the end of the 10 round fight. Vera did just as much damage to Chavez Jr’s face in 10 rounds than Sergio Martinez did in 12 rounds.
Arum can talk all he wants about how he thinks the judges got it right in scoring the Chavez Jr-Vera fight. The fact of the matter is no one is listening to Arum or the judges. The fans overwhelmingly saw Chavez Jr. losing the fight, and his stock really dropped from this fight.
The fans have invalidated the win that the three judges gave to Chavez Jr., and Arum can talk until he’s red in the face and it’s not going to change the opinion of fans.
Instead of him wasting his time trying to deny the reality of the way fans saw the Chavez Jr. vs. Vera fight, Arum should be trying to find a way to fix things by scheduling a rematch between them, because that’s the only way Chavez Jr. is going to be able to possibly redeem himself with the fans.
If Arum has Chavez Jr. move on, which is what it appears he’s going to do, he’s going to be looked at as fighter that was beaten and given a gift decision.
Arum and Chavez Jr. can ignore what the fans feel, but what’s done is done. He’s not going to be looked at the same way after this decision by a lot of fans, and it’s his blow it move if he moves on without trying that he’s better than Vera. Many fans saw Chavez Jr. losing the fight, and it’s going to make him look silly in walking away from it as if he won it.
Arum didn’t mention that Chavez Jr. had a huge weight advantage over Vera last Saturday night. What would have happened if Chavez Jr. fought someone his own size like Adonis Stevenson, Sergey Kovalev or Marco Huck last Saturday night instead of a small middleweight?
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