I probably would have scored it a draw. If Martinez didn't go down in the first, I would have probably given him the win.
It was a very close fight though, and anyone watching could have scored it either way. 119-110 is obviously a joke of a score, but either way, Paul Williams won according to the judges. If he scored it 115-113 instead, everyone would just shrug their shoulders and agree that it was a close fight.
If you think that a judge could have been paid off to give the fight to someone regardless of how it played out, that makes it a robbery. It taints the fight.
It takes away the possibility of the fight being fairly contested. He wouldn't have had a fair shake, regardless. That makes it a robbery. Regardless of if it was close or the right man won.
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