Featherweight contender Bruce Carrington (13-0, 8 KOs) earned a highly contested 10-round majority decision over visiting fighter Sulaiman Segawa (17-5-1, 6 KOs) at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York on Friday night . City.
Carrington is from New York, so the judges went with the hometown fighter, but it didn’t look like he was winning. He was severely exposed by Segawa. The southpaw style and movement of Segawa left Carrington looking confused, unsure of what to do, and afraid of being clipped by him after he got hurt in the second.
The scores were 95-95, 97-93 and 97-93. Boxing News 24 had it for Segawa 7-3. Carrington was completely outboxed the entire fight by 33-year-old Ugandan Segawa. Given the wide scores, the judges seemed to focus on the activity of Carrington and ignore the many shots that Segawa landed.
Carrington was pummeled all night and was forced to hold on in the second half. In the tenth, Carrington applied pressure but was ineffective as he repeatedly missed with his shots.
This performance was so bad by Carrington that his promoters at Top Rank should consider putting him on a rebuild because it was a true defeat in the truest sense. They might want to consider giving Segawa a rematch, but in neutral territory on the West Coast rather than in New York again on Carrington’s home turf.
In the second round, the lanky Segawa stunned Carrington with a left hand straight into the pipe and then ran at him, making him hold on to survive.
After the second, Carrington looked scared, unable to pull the trigger on his shots for fear of being hit by Segawa. Whatever fight Carrington had in him, it was gone after he got hurt in the second. He fought like he was in the ring with a tiger, and he didn’t want to go on the attack for fear of being chewed up by Segawa.
Carrington is not ready for the top fighters at featherweight after this performance, and he can forget about his pipe dream of fighting Naoya Inoue. He was going to lose badly against that guy.
Last updated on 27/09/2024
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