Kerman Lejarraga Arana vs. Dylan Jim Jordan Charrat & Kiko Martinez vs. Jayro Duran RBR.

The judges didn't watch the fight either....

 

Right time to do it; not like there's ****-all to look forward to in 2021.

 

The close cards are fine IMO, but the Lejarraga team know they are ahead so they stop the fight intentionally..
they could see Charat is on the way to pot his way to a decision in the last 3 rounds.
Oh well...lol

 

Matchroom Judges are shyte - Eh Day Earn covers all angles

 

I've read all 10 pages. This one is for all of you: if you don't know **** about boxing or the boxers you watch, why comment?

The fight was for the vacant European title, and it is the European Boxing Union who picks who can fight for the title, based on their rankings. The French team won the purse bid (well over 100.000 euro), but as Matchroom wants to stage fights in Spain (and Italy) to expand their market, they must have offered the French team good money to move the fight to Spain. Also the team behind Lejarraga bid more than a 100.000 euro, which is a lot for an EBU title match.

Lejarraga broke with his long time trainer and MGZ a few months ago, and has a completely new team around him now, training in another gym in Bilbao. If you have any whatsoever knowledge of what's going on in Spanish boxing, you should know this. I bet none of you do.

None of the judges were Spanish or French (they were from Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands), and the referee was the same very experienced EBU/WBC referee from Belgium who shared the ring with Lejarraga and Bradley Skeete the first time Lejarraga won the welter EBU title. (In boxrec he is registered with over 1200 fights). He asked the ring doctor should the fight continue or not several times.

To my knowledge neither team knows the score for a EBU title before the end. This was also demonstrated in the first fight between Lejarraga and Avanesyan. Lejarraga's team thought he was behind based on a scorecard one guy from his corner had seen on the live tv broadcast, and Lejarraga was told by his trainer to go out and KO Avanesyan. He nearly stopped Avanesyan with a body shot, but gassed himself out completely, and was then stopped by Avanesyan the following round. The fact however was that Lejarraga was actually in front on the cards, and could easily have won just by going the distance. Had he done so, he was next in line for the WBO title (according to Arum), and a nice pay check. Unfortunately, his entire team consisted of amateurs, and this sadly ruined a lot for Lejarraga. Even more so when he decided to fight Avanesyan again, who was all wrong for him. I think he stayed far too long with his old friend and trainer and may have had a different career had he moved to the US following his win over Bradly Skeete three years ago.

In my opinion the score could have tipped either way in this match. Had the French boxer chosen to fight Lejarraga in France, given that his team won the purse bid, it might have gone the other way. That is how boxing works, as a business. Lejarraga had Hearn and Matchroom's backing and was thus the A side. In hindsight, the French might regret his decision.

 

Thanks for the rather snippy update on Spanish boxing. Interesting info.

I thought the French guy was ahead by a couple rounds and there were some close rounds so it's more of a "hometown decision " than a "robbery".