No Holds Barred: Fulton-Figueroa and Kambosos-Lopez Controversies, on The WAAR Room with Chris Baldwin and Malissa Smith

On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with our colleagues Chris Baldwin of the <b><a href="https://waarsports.com" target="_blank">WAAR Room</a></b> and Malissa Smith of <b><a href="https://girlboxing.org" target="_blank">Girlboxing</a></b> on the WAAR Room. A video of this discussion has also been posted on the <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMW16qQlnyWR-xyd2jZF1IA" target="_blank">WAAR Sports YouTube page</a></b>.

We spoke with them Sunday, November 28.

Our main focus was on two major title unification fights this past weekend, and the accompanying controversies in each of them. 

In a major upset, George Kambosos Jr. captured the WBA, IBF, and WBO lightweight belts from previously unbeaten Teofimo Lopez by split decision. Almost all observers had Kambosos clearly winning this fight.

In a fight to unify the WBC and WBO 122-pound belts, Stephen Fulton Jr. defeated Brandon Figueroa by majority decision. Even though this was a close fight, many people thought that Figueroa had done enough to win, or at least it should have been scored a draw.

Besides discussing the rest of these cards, we raised the issue of judging and officiating in boxing, as there are highly controversial and even bizarre scores just about every week. Unlike most other professional sports, boxing's purposely fragmented governance means that there is nothing remotely like an independent Boxing Integrity Unit. We see the results of the absence of even a semblance of proper governance on almost every boxing card.

Malissa Smith also once more kept us up-to-date with the latest news in women's boxing.

All this is part of our in-depth coverage of the corrupt world of boxing and sports governance in general.

(Photo of Figueroa vs Fulton from Esther Lin/Showtime. Photo of Kambosos vs. Lopez from Ed Mulholland/Matchroom.)

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