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Learn MoreIsrael Vazquez-Rafael Marquez Decision is Final
Mar 3, 2008 • 5:00 AM
By Mark Vester
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that the split-decision verdict in last Saturday's trilogy bout between Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez will not be changed.
Following the decision, promoter Gary Shaw said, at the post-fight press conference, that he would protest the decision. Shaw and the Marquez camp were upset over referee Pat Russell deducting a point for a low blow in round ten, and Russell crediting Vazquez with a knockdown in the final five-seconds of the twelfth-round. Marquez appeared to hold the rope to keep himself from going down, which many referees will count as a knockdown because if not for the rope, the fighter would have went down. The Marquez camp said the low blow in the tenth was on the belt line and should not have resulted in a point being taken away. Marquez was warned several times in the fight for low blows.
