By Edward Chaykovsky
In 2013, controversial judge C.J. Ross walked away from the sport after taking an online lashing from fans who outraged over two of her scorecards. In the first fight between Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley in 2012, where she scored 115-113 for Bradley. Then even more heat fell upon her after scoring 114-114 in the 2013 bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez.
Now in 2015, Ross is still under the belief that Mayweather-Canelo was a draw - even though the Mexican boxer himself has credited Mayweather with clearly beating him.
"I was asked why my score could have gone to a draw but it just has to be one fighter ending up with six rounds. When you think of it in terms of six rounds and the nearest other judge had an eight round to four card, we weren’t all that far off. It was an even fight, a lot of those rounds were even, they just swung back and forth," Ross told On The Ropes Boxing Radio.
"I think there’s a big difference between those fighters and their styles and the power that Alvarez has and the strength. Him being so much younger than Mayweather, it may have made a difference in what I saw. It was right for what I saw. It may not have been right to what the other two judges saw but it was right to what I saw."
