Celebrity host Mario Lopez,
an announcer on the international broadcast of this weekend’s
Pacquiao-Bradley fight, took to Twitter following the controversial
split-decision to blast the judges.
Bradley shocked the boxing world with a majority decision over
reigning champ Pacquiao that was criticized by many boxing fans and
experts.
“I’m so disgusted. The JUDGES need to be drug tested! What fight were
they watching?” Lopez tweeted. “…Pacquiao simply outclassed him. Wasn’t
even close in my eyes. Unbelievable. So disappointed in my sports.
Boxing is killing me.”
Keith Kaiser, executive director of the Nevada Athletic Commission, could not immediately be reached for comment.
The tweets come as Lopez and filmmaker Bert Marcus prepare to release
“Champs,” a documentary about how boxing inspires both professional and
amateur fighters to overcome obstacles in their lives. Both Lopez and
Marcus said this weekend that the Pacquiao fight would be a major blow
to the sport.
“We have a whole section in the film about how no other sport in
America has taken such a big fall. Boxing is really the only sport that
has digressed, when you think about it,” Marcus said. “Saturday was
really the icing on the cake for that. Boxing had changed the course of
America in terms of the civil rights movement and other historical
examples, but now it seems to be its own worst enemy.”
Lopez, a star of the show “Extra” and a popular ringside boxing
announcer, has sparred with boxing greats such as Oscar De La Hoya and
even once suffered a cracked skull at the hands of one opponent.
Marcus and Lopez are now in discussions with several distributors about a theatrical release for “Champs.”
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