Many believe that Timothy Bradley's victory over Manny
Pacquiao in their June 9 bout for the World Boxing Organization
welterweight title was a robbery, but the Nevada attorney general said
Tuesday it was not a crime.
Catherine Cortez Masto, the Nevada attorney general, wrote in a letter
to Top Rank's Bob Arum that "there do not appear to be any facts or
evidence to indicate that a criminal violation occurred."
That pleased Bradley manager Cameron Dunkin, who said, "I'm not
surprised at all." However, it did little to soothe the feelings of
Arum, who in the immediate aftermath of the majority decision favoring
Bradley was blamed by the public for somehow influencing the result.
Arum said he didn't think the inquiry, conducted by Dale Liebherr, the
attorney general's chief of investigations, was thorough enough. He sent
a letter to Cortez Masto on June 11 requesting the result be
investigated to clear his name and with the hope it would restore public
confidence in boxing.
Not interviewing judges Jerry Roth, C.J. Ross and Duane Ford was a mistake, Arum said.
"I have no reaction to it," Arum said. "They spent a lot of time
interviewing the referee [Robert Byrd] who had nothing to do with
judging the fight, and I didn't see any interviews with the three judges
who scored it? Wouldn't you do that if you were looking into it?"
Ross and Ford each scored the bout 115-113 in favor of Bradley, while
Roth had it 115-113 for Pacquiao. The overwhelming consensus of fans and
media who saw the fight was that Pacquiao won handily.
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