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Was this controversial fight televised? I cannot find any footage on YouTube.

Yes

Are there any links to it?

I saw it on youtube several years ago. I scored it 11-4 Everett but I wouldn't argue with a 9-6 card, at all.

I thought I had seen it up on YouTube in the past but can’t see it now.

I don't think it was broadcast nationally, at least not live. It was on a Tuesday night and it was not the undercard of some major heavyweight fight. It was at the Philadelphia Spectrum. At the time, many fights there were broadcast in the Philadelphia area; this was likely the case here. I believe that is fights like Brisco-Hagler and some of Mathew Franklin (Saad Muhammad) fights were like that and then put on ESPN Classic, Super Bouts etc. and eventually Youtube.

Too bad it is no longer on Youtube. Might be worth checking again once in a while to see if it reappears.

I just had a look at the fight and as I hear it, Ray Solis card is announced as 148-138 Everett?!?!

Break the fight out into five parts:

Rds 1-4 all for Everett

Rds 5-6 for Escalera

Rds 7-9 all for Everett

Rds 10 -12 Very Difiicult rounds to score

Rds 13 -15 all for Escalera

So the swing rounds 10 to 12 is the deciding rounds. Give them to Everett and he won, or give them all three to Escalera and he won. I dont like the last scenario.

No way Escalera deserved that decision-the only debate that can be justified is how far ahead Everett was at the final bell.

Anyone trying to make a half assed case for Escalera winning that fight (Woller) has his head firmly up his ass. Everett clearly won that fight and got robbed. It was a terrible robbery. I realize in Denmark after watching decades of Mogens Palle's professionally wrestling style fixed fights Danes are programed to just blindly accept whatever the judges say but trying to play devils advocate about such a clearly poor decision is pathetic.

You certainy have a way with words, but I don´t know how Denmark came into this.
There has been a lot of strange things happening in danish boxing, but I thought that the Everett - Escalera fight was fought in USA.
Sometimes you have to look at a case from several sides, and I tried to be the "Devil´s Advokat" on this fight and tried to make it a close fight, but I still have it for Everett. That is called trying to be wiser.

15-0 Everett would be better than a draw.

Speaking of Denmark: How big of a celebrity is Mikkel Kessler ?

Woller wrote: ↑16 Oct 2021, 07:07 You certainy have a way with words, but I don´t know how Denmark came into this.
There has been a lot of strange things happening in danish boxing, but I thought that the Everett - Escalera fight was fought in USA.
Sometimes you have to look at a case from several sides, and I tried to be the "Devil´s Advokat" on this fight and tried to make it a close fight, but I still have it for Everett. That is called trying to be wiser.

That was a wide win for Everett in a well known robbery. Why would anyone feel the need to play devils advocate??? As onetime stated above you could make a better case for it being a total whitewash by Everett than the close fight or draw you tried to paint it as.

Joe.Kelly wrote: ↑01 Nov 2021, 09:23 It's interesting that even the local judge scored the fight in favor of Escalera. Judge Lou Tress of Philadelphia scored the fight 145-143. You'd think that Tress would have been sympathetic to Everett.

I wonder what was behind Tress's score.

As for the other two officials, both from Latin America, so I'm not overly surprised they voted for the WBC house fighter Escalera.

- Ray Solis, the Mexican ref, voted 148-146 for Everett. It was a split decision.
https://boxrec.com/en/event/20910/30632

In his new autobio, Russell Peltz who was his promoter says that just before the fight, Tress who was one of the most respected area refs in his long career who had been something of a mentor to young Peltz refused to acknowledge Peltz's existence when he hailed Tress for a talk outside in the leadup to the fight.

Since I've never seen the fight, not gonna comment on it other than Peltz who seems to be a straight shooter regarded it as the worst decision he ever promoted. Everett was scheduled for the rematch the next year in Puerto Rico but gunned down by his gf in one of the sleaziest scenarios in boxing history, not a nice guy, a typical sad understory of boxing.

Peltz a great read, and the bonus I'm proud to say is I stiffed Amazon after they pulled some monkey biz on me. I saved $10 when I ordered it through my bookseller. Highly informative, entertaining, and maddeningly detailed down to the last penny...only in boxing, folks...

Joe.Kelly wrote: ↑01 Nov 2021, 09:23 It's interesting that even the local judge scored the fight in favor of Escalera. Judge Lou Tress of Philadelphia scored the fight 145-143. You'd think that Tress would have been sympathetic to Everett.

I wonder what was behind Tress's score.

As for the other two officials, both from Latin America, so I'm not overly surprised they voted for the WBC house fighter Escalera.

Read Russell Peltz's book. He discussed the fight in detail. The fix was in and Tress was an embarrassment.