Filed under: WBC, WBO, Boxing Rumors, HBO, FanHouse Exclusive
DETROIT -- WBO king, Tim Bradley, won an anti-climactic, 10-round technical decision over WBC champ, Devon Alexander, in Saturday night's HBO televised, junior welterweight (140 pounds) championship bout when referee Frank Garza, acting on the advice of ringside doctor, Peter Samet, stopped the fight as a result of Alexander's complaining that he could not see out of a bleeding right eye as the result of an accidental head butt.
Nevada's Duane Ford 97-93, Mexico's Omar Mintun 98-93, and Ohio's Tim Miller, 96-95, all for Bradley. FanHouse had it for Bradley, 98-93 in a bout that was contested at the Pontiac Silverdome, in Pontiac Mich.
The bout was stopped at 10:59 of the 10th.
"I ruled them as accidental head butts," said Garza. "The second one was a completely different head-butt than the previous one in the fight. I stopped the match after consultation with the ringside physician."
Alexander was initially butted and cut over his right eye in the third round, and bled from the cut throughout, even as the 27-year-old Bradley continued to pressure and land right hands to the heads and body that held his 23-year-old rival at bay.
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