Rodney Berman<\/a>, who staged the bout, said the margin was a bit heavy, suggesting that Makepula had done enough to win.<\/p>\n\u201cOut of the eight ring officials, four scored it in favour of Makepula,\u201d said Dube.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also gave them a similar assignment in a fight between Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales, which Barrera won by majority decision on November 27 2004.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a lot of talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
He says four scored it in favour of Barrera, and the others favoured Morales. These are accomplished Mexican boxing idols.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a close fight, and I was happy with their scoring, just as I was with the Matlala-Makepula fight,\u201d said Dube.<\/p>\n
Dubious scoring and controversial ring officiating have reached what critics describe as a pandemic.<\/p>\n
BSA held a two-day training session with ring officials in Bloemfontein in July to address an unprecedented wave of poor officiating, controversial scoring decisions and many formal appeals lodged by boxers and managers.<\/p>\n
But not all the provinces were present.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think what was done needs to be supplemented at the provincial level because two days was not enough,\u201d said Dube.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven seven days won\u2019t be enough if you take a ring official who has not scored a fight in six months.\u201d<\/p>\n
That is the case with ring officials from Limpopo, North West, Kimberly and the Free State, where boxing matches are scarce.<\/p>\n
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