By Ryan Burton
Former WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal was pushed close to the limit this past July when he won a close decision over upstart Cuban Yunieski Gonzalez in Las Vegas.
The final scores were 96-94 on all three scorecards but many fans felt that the Cuban did enough to secure the victory. The fight was televised by HBO from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.
Pascal said there is a reason fans are fans and judges are the professionals who decide the outcome of the fights.
"If you look at the fight I was the one who pressed the action. I was the one who landed the bigger shots," Pascal explained. "I hit this guy more than he was hitting me. I was the one putting pressure and I stunned him two or three times during the fight and he never stunned me. People are saying that I lost the fight but that is why the fans aren't judges."
Gonzalez lost a decision this past Saturday night to Vyacheslav Shabranskyy.
Pascal returns to the ring on January 30th when he face Sergey Kovalev in a rematch of their March bout that Kovalev won via 8th round knockout.
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