Featherweight contender Bruce Carrington (13-0, 8 KOs) was given a extremely controversial 10-round majority choice over visiting fighter Sulaiman Segawa (17-5-1, 6 KOs) on Friday evening at The Theater at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis.
Carrington is from New York, so the judges went with the hometown fighter, however he didn’t seem to win. He obtained badly uncovered by Segawa. The southpaw model and the motion of Segawa had Carrington wanting confused, uncertain what to do, and afraid of being clipped by him after being damage within the second.
The scores had been 95-95, 97-93 and 97-93. Boxing Information 24 had it for Segawa 7-3. Carrington was fully outboxed all the struggle by 33-year-old Ugandan Segawa. Given the extensive scores, the judges appeared to concentrate on the exercise from Carrington and ignore the various photographs that Segawa was touchdown.
Carrington was crushed to the punch all the evening and was pressured to carry within the second half. Within the tenth, Carrington utilized strain however was ineffective, as he missed repeatedly together with his photographs.
This efficiency was so dangerous by Carrington that his promoters at Prime Rank want to think about placing him on a rebuild as a result of this was a real defeat in the actual sense. They may need to think about giving Segawa a rematch however in impartial territory on the West Coast fairly than in New York once more on Carrington’s dwelling turf.
Within the second spherical, the lanky Segawa shocked Carrington with a left hand straight down the pipe after which flurried on him, inflicting him to carry to outlive.
After the second, Carrington regarded afraid, unable to tug the set off on his photographs for concern of being hit by Segawa. No matter struggle Carrington had in him, it was gone after he was damage within the second. He fought like he was within the ring with a tiger, and he didn’t need to go on the assault for concern of getting chewed up by Segawa.
Carrington will not be prepared for the highest fighters at featherweight after this efficiency, and he can overlook about his pipe dream of combating Naoya Inoue. He would lose to that man badly.
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