07/22/2021 7:23 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 07/22/2021 7:23 PM
On the night of Saturday 17, Argentine boxing was on the verge of experiencing a historic day, the possibility that Brian Castaño would be crowned with the four main belts of the super welterweight.
He already had the WBO scepter and if he
beat
Texan
Jermell Charlo he
could add the WBA, IBF and WBC titles, something unprecedented in these latitudes.
Finally, the cards defined that the fight ended in a draw, with Boxi asking the American for revenge on the edge of the ring.
According to the opinion of specialized journalism and the entire boxing environment, Castaño should have won the fight.
But the card from Puerto Rican
Nelson Vázquez
, who saw Charlo as the winner, made the Argentine return home with delayed glory.
His consideration was surprised, especially by the difference he saw in his favor: 117 to 111.
In summary, the cards gave 114-113 to Castaño, 117-111 for Charlo and 114-114.
The fight took place at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas, the same scene in which Emanuel Ginobili rose as a legend of the Spurs, where he obtained four NBA rings.
"If the other two Thursdays had voted 117-111 for Castaño there, I would have said that there was something strange
. But it was not like that: each one gave a different decision
," the veteran judge explained to
The Gondol
site
.
And then he added, contradicting the 6 point light on his card: "
It was a close fight, but in the sense that there were a lot of close rounds
. And that's always a matter of appreciation. A judge can see a round one way, and another from another ".
Nelson Vázquez, the judge for Brian Castaño's fight against Charlo.
"It's the same as always, quantity versus power," said Vázquez when commenting on the statistic that shows that Castaño landed 173 blows against Charlo's 151.
"Being a judge of a fight is very different from seeing it as a fan. As a fan one can be talking with friends, or drinking, while as a judge one has to be completely focused at all times," Vázquez defended his work on the evening of the controversy.
With 191 world title fights under his belt, Vázquez lives up to his words with a career
that began in 1977 and boasts multiple awards and accolades
.
"And I have never had a controversy, the kind in which the agencies make other judges watch a fight again when there is a questionable decision," Vázquez explained in
The Gondol
.
In addition to being a respected boxing judge, Vázquez was a police officer for more than 40 years in Puerto Rico, where he served as an inspector and director of the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Puerto Rican capital.
Brian Castaño wants a rematch with Jermell Charlo.
Boxi asks for revenge
"I felt that I won the fight. I want to ask for a rematch immediately, because I know that the fight was won by me. He has hit me with the odd hand that made sense to me, but that does not mean that I won him. I threw him and hit him great. number of hands, "said Castaño as soon as the lawsuit ended.
And then, calmer, he ended up recognizing the impacts of his rival, key according to Vázquez's appreciation: "I'm happy with the work we did, it's a pity that he found me with those hands."
He was referring, of course, to what happened in the last section of the fight, when Charlo got into combat again and ended up putting on makeup, which also gave the impression of being a defeat.
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