Malignaggi Rips Judge Schreck: He Writes Score Before Fight Starts

By Victor Salazar

New York - It’s been back to back Fight of The Year contenders in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center which is becoming one of the best venues to watch the sport of boxing. This past weekend Carl Frampton outpointed Leo Santa Cruz with tallies of 117-111, 116-112, and 114-114. The fight was a fun back and forth fight with great ebb and flow between two of the best featherweights in the world. That’s usually what happens when quality fighters face each other.

The fight was close on many scorecards from the media and though many felt the right guy won. Judge Tom Schreck turned in a score card of 117-111 in favor of Frampton.

Fighter and commentator Paulie Malignaggi, who was ringside calling the action, knows a thing or two about bad judging in the sport as a fighter and commentator and criticized Schreck for his scorecard.

“I felt the right guy won but I’m starting to think Tom Schreck likes scoring fights 117-111 and then he goes to the bathroom because it seems like he’s always turning in that score,” Malignaggi told BoxingScene.com.

Malignaggi feels that in his fight with Adrien Broner in the same venue, Schreck didn’t watch the fight and turned in a horrendous scorecard.

“He (Schreck) got me with 117-111 card too with Broner. I think he fills it out before the fight starts and then he watches it, goes to the bathroom, I don’t know. 117-111 is a Tom Schreck fight one way or another if its close or not.”

Though there was a very large contingent in the arena for Carl Frampton, Malignaggi feels as a judge it may be tough to score with the crowd influence but still feels there needs to be accountability.

“It’s possible,” Malignaggi said about the crowd influence. “I do think the right guy won the fight but I felt the scores should have been closer and at the same time a draw wouldn’t have been a bad outcome either. If anything Frampton edged it. The crowd definitely played a role in it but sometimes it’s tough for judges to do their job in that sense but they still have a job to do. I thought it was a great fight and its back to back great fights here at Barclays.