TYSON FURY’S TRAINER Ben Davison branded the decision to score the Briton’s heavyweight title fight with Deontay Wilder a draw as “disgraceful”.
Fury missed out on claiming the WBC belt in Los Angeles after the duo fought out a split decision draw at the Staples Center.
The 30-year-old felt he did enough to secure the victory despite being knocked down twice by Wilder – once in the ninth and again in the final round.
And although one judge scored the fight in Fury’s favour, Alejandro Rochin had it 115-11 to Wilder while the third official had it as a tie.
That meant Wilder retained his strap, much to the annoyance of Davison.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, he said: “Floyd Mayweather’s walked out of this arena disgusted. That says it all.
“You know, to take something away from someone who’s come from hell and back, to ruin the biggest comeback in boxing history, probably in sporting history, that is a disgrace. Honestly, disgraceful.
“Everybody in boxing knows Tyson’s story and we weren’t asking for any bias. We wanted a fair crack of the whip. That’s all we asked for from start to finish and we haven’t got that.”
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There was nothing wrong with the challenge on Gomez. Hopefully it’s nothing too serious as he has been in serious form all season.
Matip and Lovren are liabilities. It’s hard to have confidence in either of em with big games coming up if Gomez is ruled out for a significant period of time.
@Maureen: I can’t understand Klopps logic in Gomez selection at rb. He is much more likely to be tackled at pace running up and down the sideline than at centre half and get injured. 1 of best 2 centre backs at the club this year and klopp plays him at rb. Crazy call considering Matip and Lovren have mistakes in them and one of the will now have to be played.
@Gerard Smith: yea Clyne has obviously dropped well down the pecking order, hes rarely in the squad anymore. When Klopp wants to give Trent a rest there is not many options but to switch Gomez who looks uncomfortable playing there. It looks like that he is going to pay for his mistake now.
Hard to be confident of keeping a clean sheet against Napoli if he ain’t there but Lovren can surprise and look good pretty often. He can’t be any worse than he was against PSG anyway.
@Gerard Smith: We will be watching the next few games through our fingers alright but Lovren can be solid enough when he’s alongside VVD. I know neither of them were great against PSG but they did well as a pair in the second half of the PL last season.