Bob Arum On How Pacquiao & Mayweather Will Spend Their Giant Payday

In the lead-up to Mayweather VS Pacquiao, Bob Arum did an interview with ESPN's Joe Tessitore, on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights, the 27th of February, 2015. He discussed the projected 300 million dollars the two superstars would share at a 60-40 split to Mayweather. This was Bob's musing about how each would spend their cut:

"Buys a lot, a lot of stuff. I mean, Floyd is-loves cars-will probably buy cars that satisfy every motor vehicle dealer in Las Vegas, and I know a great part of the money that Manny earns will go to support charities in the Philippines. Because, like I said, the Social Welfare System in the Philippines is called 'Manny Pacquiao'."


You know, Floyd does a little charity work too, Bob. Manny also has some very nice rides. I'm only saying! 


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Cletus Seldin's Blatant Elbow Under Referee Tony Chiarantano's Nose: GIF Spotlight

Kablam! Right on the ear? Referee Tony Chiarantano seems in good position to catch this blatant elbow strike of Cletus "Hebrew Hammer" Seldin on ESPN2'S Friday Night Fights. The victim was Johnny Garcia, and this is back in February. The ref also gets some other elbow action he isn't particularly on the ball for. ESPN's commentator Teddy Atlas was surprised about this too. Seldin, a strong, undefeated light welterweight prospect, is certainly not a newcomer to working a guy with his elbows but here we can see a blatant, loaded-up strike. That is, opposed to very common elbow activity people complain about, incidental to head control, space-making, jockeying for positions, or incidentally touching your man up while blocking and deflecting with your elbows (Seldin does use a cross-arm defense, so that is bound to happen also).

This is just flatly, gratuitously dirty and should've had a point deduction, I would think. I might be wrong, but I don't even think Seldin was warned here, as though it were missed completely. It's a nice catch from the FNF crew on slow motion, regardless. I seem to recall in Seldin's first match with Bayan Jargal, Seldin looked to me, in the first round, to use his opponent's clinching as an opportunity to try a few such elbow strikes with his free arm. Seldin's a solid fighter, but you've got to watch him closely. His head and elbows are all prone to strike. This guy is a rough customer, for whatever mix of the incidental, accidental and intentional we might be seeing. I chalk this one up as clearly intentional. But things happen in fights. I buy that many fighters will blatantly (yes, even blatantly) foul on nothing more than instinct, instead of with the thought to gain unfair advantage. Sometimes, your natural reaction in a combat sport is to do any physical thing that you would do without rules and it's done without any decision-making whatsoever. Seldin might be particularly predisposed to that. I couldn't say. But it is up to the referee to force them into forethought if a pattern emerges with things like this and I did find it very odd that nothing came of this particular elbow, seemingly in plain view and blatant. 



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A List Of Teddy Atlas' Unofficial Boxing Score Cards For ESPN

2015:

May:


Reynaldo Ojeda VS Monty Meza-Clay Card:
Total Score: 99-91, for Ojeda

Ojeda Rounds: 1-9
Meza-Clay Rounds: 10

Amir Mansour VS Joey Dawejko:
Total Score: 97-93, for Mansour

Mansour Rounds:  1 & 5-10
Dawejko Rounds: 2,3 & 4


(On Friday Night Fights' Facebook page, fans saw it 9 rounds to 1 for Mansour)


David Gonzalez VS Ryan Belasco:
Total Score: 59-55, for Gonzalez

Gonzalez Rounds: 1-5
Belasco Rounds: 6

(On Friday Night Fights' Facebook page, fans saw this 6 rounds to 0, for Gonzalez, but it was actually scored a majority draw, Steve Weisfeld scoring it 58-56, for Gonzalez)
 
Decarlo Perez VS Jessie Nicklow:
Total Score: 70-73, for Perez

Perez Rounds: 2-8
Nicklow Rounds: 1

(On Friday Night Fights' Facebook page, fans also saw it seven rounds to one)

April: 

Emmanuel Robles VS Wilberth Lopez: 
Total Scores: 59-55, for Robles

Robles Rounds: 1, 3-6
Lopez Rounds: 2

(On Friday Night Fights' Facebook page, fans saw it 4 rounds to 2 for Robles)

Taras Shelestyuk VS Juan Rodriguez Junior:
Total Score, 79-73, for Shelestyuk

Shelestyuk Rounds: 1-5, 7 & 8
Rodriguez Rounds: 6

(On Friday Night Fights' Facebook page, fans saw it 7 rounds to 1 for Shelestyuk)


Petr Petrov VS Gamaliel Diaz: 
Total Score: 100-88, for Petrov

Petrov Rounds:  1-10 (7th round a 10-7)
Diaz Rounds: None

(On Friday Night Fights' Facebook page, fans also saw it nine rounds to one)


March:

Ahmed Elbiali VS Mike Stafford:  6 Rounds
Total Score: 59-56, for Elbiali

Elbiali Rounds: 2-5
Stafford Rounds: 6
Draw Rounds: 1 (1st round)
Special note: Friday Night Fights' Facebook page had it 6 rounds to 0 for Elbiali.

Fredrick Lawson VS Breidis Prescott: 10 Rounds
Total Score: 96-93, for Lawson

Lawson Rounds: 1, 2, 3 (10-8), 8, 9 & 10
Prescott Rounds: 4-7
Special note: Facebook fans for FNF had it scored 6 rounds to 4 for Prescott.
Teddy Atlas also did not agree with the single knockdown call by Referee Samuel Burgos.

February:

Daniel Gonzalez VS Ken Alvarez:



Total Score: 60-53, for Gonzalez

Gonzalez:  1, 2, 4(10-8), 5, 6 (10-8)
Alvarez: N/A
Even: 3

(Facebook Viewers scored this 3 rounds to 3 (minding the KD's)

Raymond Serrano VS Jeremy Bryan:
Total Score: 97-93, for Serrano

Serrano Rounds:  2, 5(10-8), 6, 7, 8 &10
Bryan Rounds: 3 (10-8) & 4
Even Rounds: 1 & 9

(Facebook viewers voted 8 rounds to 2 for Serrano)


John Thompson VS Ricardo Pinell:
Total Score: 59-55, for Thompson


Thompson Rounds: 2-6 
Pinell Rounds: 1

Sergio Mora VS Abraham Han:

Total Score: 117-112, for Mora

Mora: 1-6, 8 & 9
Han: 10-12
Draw: 7

January:


Tony Luis VS Karl Dargan:
Total Score: 99-90, for Luis

Dargan Rounds: 1
Luis Rounds: 2-10, with one 10-8 round, the tenth

Willie Monroe Junior VS Brian Vera:
Total Score: 100-90, for Monroe Junior

Monroe Rounds: 1, 2 & 4-10. The fifth round was scored 10-8.
Vera Rounds: None
Draw Rounds: 3/scored a 10-10

Jarrell Miller VS Aaron Kinch:
Total Score: 60-54, for Miller.
Miller Rounds: 1-6, all 10-9
Kinch Rounds: N/A

Darleys Perez VS Jonathan Macielo:
Total Score: 116-110, for Perez.

Perez Rounds: 1, 5-9, 11 & 12 (two 10-8 rounds, 11 & 12)
Macielo Rounds:  2-4 & 10

2014:

October:

Jermain Taylor VS Sam Soliman:
Total Score: 116-109, for Taylor

Taylor Rounds: 6-12, with rounds 7, 8, 9 and 11 all being 10-8.
Soliman Rounds: 2-5
Draw Rounds: 1

August:

Erick Bone VS Mahonri Montes
Total Score: 100-90, for Bone.

Bone:1-10
Montes: Not applicable

July:


Caleb Truax VS Derek Ennis: 
Total Score: 98-92, for Truax

Truax Rounds: 1-5, 7, 9 & 10
Ennis Rounds: 6 & 8


Mike Lee VS Paul Gonsalves:
Total Score: 58-56, for Lee

Lee Rounds: 1, 2, 4 & 5
Gonsalves Rounds: 3 & 6

Anthony Karperis VS  Ariel Duran:
Total Score: 39-37, for Karperis.

Karperis Rounds: 1, 3 & 4
Duran Rounds: 2


Billy Dib VS Alberto Garza
Total Score: 96-93

Dib Rounds: 2-4, 7, 8 & 10
Alberto Garza:  1, 5 & 9
Even Rounds: 6

June:

Yudel Jhonson VS Norberto Gonzalez
Total Score: 98-90, for Jhonson

Jhonson Rounds: 1, 2 & 4-9 (5 & 9 scored 10-8)
Gonzalez Rounds: 3 & 10

May:

Amir Imam VS Yordenis Ugas
Total Score: 77-75, for Imam

Imam Rounds: 4-8
Ugas Rounds: 1-3

Willie Monroe Junior VS Brandon Adams
Total Score: 98-92

Monroe Rounds: 1, 2, 4-7, 9 & 10
Adams Rounds:  3 & 8

April:

Willie Monroe Junior VS Vitaliy Kopylenko
Total Score: 79-73, for Monroe

Monroe Rounds: 1-4 & 6-8
Kopylenko Rounds: 5

March:

Fernando Carcamo VS Miguel Angel Gonzalez
Total Score: 78-73, for Carcamo

Carcamo Rounds: 1 (10-8), 3-6 & 8
Gonzalez Rounds: 2 &7

"Do me a favour. Somebody grab that judge that had it a draw and, really, suspend his license. Suspend his license. Bring him into the office and find out what on Earth was going on in his mind when he was watching the fight. Because he was watching a different fight than we were."

He was talking about Judge Tocker Pudwill.

February:

Kamil Laszczyk VS Daniel Diaz
Total Score: 79-72, for Laszczyk

Laszczyk Rounds: 1-3 & 5-10 (Round 1 scored 10-8 for a KD)
Diaz Rounds: 4

Roberto Garcia VS Norberto Gonzalez
Total Score: 96-93

Garcia Rounds: 3-6, 9 & 10
Gonzalez Rounds: 1, 2 & 7
Draw Rounds: 8

Wendy Toussaint VS Anthony Gangemi
Total score: 39-37, for Toussaint

Toussaint Rounds: 2-4
Gangemi: 1


Issouf Kinda VS Jeremy Bryan

Total score: 77-75, for Bryan

Bryan Rounds: 1, 2, 4, 7 & 8
Kinda Rounds: 3, 5 & 6


Chris Algieri VS Emmanuel Taylor

Total score: 97-93, for Algieri

Algieri Rounds: 1-3 & 7-10
Taylor Rounds: 4, 5 & 6



January:


Dusty Hernandez Harrison VS Tim Witherspoon Junior
Total Score: 79-73, for Hernandez Harrison

Hernandez Harrison Rounds: 2-8
Witherspoon Junior Rounds: 1

(Hernandez Harrison did officially win by unanimous decision)

Luis Rosa VS Jorge Diaz:
Total Score: 78-72, for Rosa

Rosa Rounds: 2-5, 7 & 8
Diaz Rounds: 1 & 6


Blake Caparello VS Elvir Muriqi
Total Score: 99-91, for Caparello

Caparello Rounds: 1-4, 6-10
Muriqui Rounds:  5


Caleb Truax VS Ossie Duran

Total Score: 96-94, Caleb Truax

Truax Rounds: 1, 5 & 8-10
Duran Rounds: 2-4 & 6
Even Rounds: 7



Juan Antonio Rodriguez VS Yenifel Vicente
Total Score: 78-74, for Rodriguez

Rodriguez Rounds: 2-7
Vicente: 1 & 8


This page is dedicated to cataloging ESPN's long-time unofficial scorer's cards throughout the many years he has had the gig as a reference for anyone researching the matches or Atlas' scores in particular. Bookmark for future reference as I'll continue to add as many as I can.




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