Pound-for-pound number one Canelo Alvarez has agreed with Tyson Fury that boxing rules must be changed after Jack Catterall was seemingly robbed of a win over Josh Taylor.
Taylor won on a split decision in the bout, despite Chorley's Catterall landing more hits in all but one of the rounds in the light-welterweight world title fight - with almost every analyst watching to state that Catterall had won the fight. The judges have been roundly criticised for the scoring, which will be investigated after the British Boxing Board of Control confirmed that they'd be looking into the result.
Fury has backed open scoring - where scores are announced after a certain number of rounds and even stated that he'd do what he could to make sure no British judges were involved in the upcoming fight, which has promoter Frank Warren had initially stated.
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Now Alvarez has agreed with Fury's open scoring idea. He told Ariel Helwani on the MMA Hour show: "Yes in every round we would know where we are at. Yeah I like that."
Days prior, Fury told talkSPORT: "I’ve seen an article recently where Frank Warren said there would be no British judges for this fight and I reiterate that as well. Those words echo around my training camp. We don’t want British judges for this fight. We want proper, experienced, judges who will do the right thing.
"If Dillian Whyte beats me, give him the decision. Do not try and rob anybody of this fight, give the man the decision, give the man what he deserves. If I win, do the same for me. In boxing, these fighters don’t want any gifts, they don’t want robbery decisions.
“People want to win if they win, and lose if they lose. In the game, we’ve seen so many boxing decisions go the opposite way and I’m just thinking ‘what are they watching’."
Robert Smith, the general secretary of the British Boxing Board of Control, has confirmed that they will investigate. He told Telegraph Sport that he had ordered a report into the scoring of judge Ian John-Lewis, who awarded the bout 114-111 in favour of Taylor.
He said: "We will be looking into it. There were some very close rounds, it was a very close, very scrappy fight, and I have asked for reports from the judges which we will be studying this week. Our judges are honest people, and scored it as they saw it. I was there, and I thought Catterall pipped it."
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