Eddie Hearn was furious with the judging on the Terence Crawford vs Israil Madrimov fight.
Crawford became a four-weight world champion on Saturday night when he snatched the WBA super welterweight title away from Madrimov at the BMO Stadium in Los Angeles.
All three judges scored the fight in Crawford’s favour with scorecards of 116-112, 115-113, and 115-113 to declare ‘Bud’ the winner via unanimous decision.
The fight was extremely close with members of the boxing fraternity split on who they felt won the contest.
Madrimov’s promoter, Hearn, felt Crawford needed to do more than he did to take the title for the champion and was gobsmacked by judge Jack Reiss’ 116-112 scorecard.
“It’s a waste of time,” said Hearn in his post-fight interview with DAZN.
“It’s not a 116-112 fight. He’s coming into the fight as a champion but because he’s fighting Terence Crawford he doesn’t get a shake.
“All of the effective punches were coming from Israil Madrimov. Crawford had a good flurry in the last round.
“It was a super close fight I believe you have to come in and take that belt of the champion, Terence Crawford didn’t do that and I love him he is brilliant.
“But for me, he [Madrimov] deserves to be champion tonight. It was a fight that could have gone either way and then you hear the scorecards and it’s why do you bother kind of thing.
“You lose by four rounds on two of the scorecards, it wasn’t that kind of fight.
“I was sitting in the corner, they were so quiet all fight. They knew: ‘The twelfth round, we need this’.
