Referee Tony Weeks gave Rolando Romero a gift Saturday with inexplicably poor officiating in the ninth round of Romero's bout for the WBA super lightweight title against Ismael Barroso at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas.
The only punch in that sequence in the corner that landed was one thrown by Barroso, but Weeks apparently didn’t see it. The stoppage made Romero a world champion, though there are few people on the planet other than his closest family members who will regard him as a champion.
The 40-year-old Barroso, who was clearly tiring, had scored a knockdown on Romero in the third. It was mostly a meh fight with little significant or sustained action, but Barroso was doing what he had to do to win. He outlanded Romero, 57-40, according to Showtime, and he threw more punches, 297-230.“I’m fine,” Barroso said. “I think it was an injustice to stop this fight. I was giving the best shots.
WBA championships have extremely low value because of the way the WBA has managed them over the years, giving out multiple in one class, sanctioning fights between unworthy contenders and more. But the only way Romero’s new belt can carry any significance is if the sanctioning body forces a rematch. It wasn’t a great fight, so promoters probably won’t be eager to put it on again, but it’s the only fair way to make amends. And if Romero declines the rematch, he should be stripped.
I have known Tony Weeks for at least 20 years and I know him to be a decent, honorable man I’d trust with anything I hold dear. Weeks has long been a quality referee and his work in 2005 allowing the late, great Diego Corrales to continue to fight after he was dropped by Jose Luis Castillo in the 10th round of their epic fight in Las Vegas has been widely praised.Likewise, he deserves every bit of scorn he receives this time after essentially handing Romero a world title.
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