Girfanta Davis kept his WBA light title with a controversial majority against Lamont Roche Junior in New York.
Boxing star – who won all his previous thirty battles – fell voluntarily on his knee in the ninth round of an affair with the WBA hero for the super weight Roche.
However, the ruling did not call it as a knockout-two Judges later, the competition 114-114, with a third giving to Davis 115-113.
Roche, 29, said: “If you are taking a voluntary knee and not counting the reference, this is a knockout.” “If this is a fatal blow, then win the fighting.”
After he fell to his knee – who did not follow a punch from Roche – Davis went to the ropes where his face was wiped with a towel.
Davis, 30, said later that “he has just finished my hair two days ago,” and the grease in his hair “came in my face and burned my eyes.”
After the fighting, the four -weight Tynens Croford's four -weight world champions – who called for a match – had been stolen.
“Roth won and this should have been called a knockout. I am [have] I had never seen someone taking a knee and did not consider it as a knockout, “as published on social media.
On the UnderCard Card, Alberto Poelo of the Dominican Republic won over Sansur Martin from Spain by dividing a decision to retain his light weight title in WBC.
Two of the judges registered the battle to Puello 115-113 and 116-112, with the third giving to Martin 115-113.
