Haney and Cameron Retain Titles on Busy Saturday

It was an interesting day for the judges. Dave Moretti, perhaps the worse judge in the sport, handed in another atrocious scorecard. An epically bad job in round number 10 stands out. Haney was able to retain the belts at 135. Undisputed lightweight champion Devin Haney retained his titles by winning a controversial unanimous decision over former three-division world champ and two-time gold medalist Vasiliy Lomachenko on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden. After a very competitive and even opening six rounds, Haney seemed to seize control of the fight in rounds 7 and 8. Lomachenko bounced back and was able to get on the inside and dominated rounds 9-11. At points in the 11th, it looked like Haney was in trouble, and Lomachenko was on the verge of gunning for a stoppage. The undefeated, unified champ picked himself up and had a tremendous 12th and final round that it seemed he desperately needed. The judges favored Haney by scores of 115-113 x2, and Moretti handed in an atrocious 116-112. The scores themselves were very interesting. Loma clearly won rounds 1 & 9, and Haney Clearly took round two. None of the three judges scored any of those rounds correctly. Haney Improved to 30-0 (15), while Lomachenko dropped to 17-3 (11).

Earlier in the day in Ireland,

Chantelle Cameron gave a performance of a lifetime, spoiling Katie Taylor's Irish homecoming at the 3Arena in Dublin, and took a much too close Majority decision by scores of 96-94x2 and the third score of 95-95. Cameron started quickly and bullied the smaller Taylor around the ring building up a lead on the cards. Outworking and outlanding Taylor who was predominately off the back foot. The hometown hero fought back valiantly in the final two rounds to make it close scoring with solid 1-2's that slowed Cameron down. Taylor seemed to ahve things going her way late but it was too little too late and Cameron survived off of the early lead she build up and kept all the belts. Promoter Eddie Hearn said they will exercise the rematch clause and we will get Taylor-Cameron II later this Fall again in Dublin. Taylor fell to 22-1 (6) and Cameron improved her perfect record to 18-0 (8).