Featherweight contender Bruce Carrington (13-0, 8 KOs) was given a highly controversial 10-round majority decision over visiting fighter Sulaiman Segawa (17-5-1, 6 KOs) on Friday night at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Carrington is from New York, so the judges went with the hometown fighter, but he didn’t appear to win. He got badly exposed by Segawa. The southpaw style and the movement of Segawa had Carrington looking confused, unsure what to do, and afraid of being clipped by him after being 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 from Carrington and ignore the many shots that Segawa was landing.
Carrington was beaten to the punch the entire night and was forced to hold in the second half. In the tenth, Carrington applied pressure but was ineffective, as he missed repeatedly with his shots.
This performance was so bad by Carrington that his promoters at Top Rank need to consider putting him on a rebuild because this was a true defeat in the real 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 down the pipe and then flurried on him, causing him to hold to survive.
After the second, Carrington looked afraid, 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 was 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 getting 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 would lose to that guy badly.
Last Updated on 09/28/2024
