By Victor Salazar

New York - Badou Jack (20-1-3, 12 KO’s)  and James DeGale (23-1-1, 14 KO’s)  battled to a majority draw inside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn this past Saturday night. The fight had a bit of everything from both men scoring a knockdown, a referee taking a punch to the face, and it even had James DeGale losing a tooth.

The consensus at ringside was that DeGale started off well but Jack closed the gap in the mid rounds and won the bout late by scoring a 12th round knockdown.

The scorecards at the end of the night where 114-112 DeGale with two 113-113 cards. Jack keeps his WBC super middleweight title and DeGale keeps his IBF respectively.

One of the best 168 pound fighters of this era, Carl Froch, was ringside calling the fights for Sky Sports and felt Jack did enough to win.

“The result should have been for Badou Jack,” Froch told BoxingScene.com. “I had it even going into the last round so the knockdown won it for Jack by two points. Jack got caught early and it more of an off balanced shot. If that punch would hit him on the chest, he probably would have fell and it cost him the round.”

Froch feels Jack should get credit for the work he did, especially after Jack suffered a flash knockdown early in the fight.

“I think DeGale’s tactics were good and he was moving well but when you have a guy like Jack still coming, makes it hard for you to move,” stated Froch. “He had DeGale on the ropes and he hitting him with big shots. DeGale wasn’t really penetrating the defense of Jack . Jack had longer stretches of good work while DeGale would flurry in spots but it was too little too late.”

Jack’s promoter, Floyd Mayweather Jr., was outspoken after the fight by telling the media that Jack was robbed and he may never stage a fight on the East Coast again because of the decision. Froch feels the robbery talk may have been too much.

“I’m scoring it to Jack so I agree with Mayweather that Jack won - but it wasn’t a robbery. A robbery was Floyd getting robbed plain and clear in the Olympics. Roy Jones Jr got robbed in the Olympic final. It wasn’t a robbery, but it was unfortunate to Jack because I felt he won a close fight.”