Newly crowned interim WBO World super bantamweight champion, Isaac Dogboe (18-0, 12 KOs), believes experienced referee Tony Weeks came to the rescue of Cesar Juarez in the fifth round to protect the Mexican from getting hurt in their last Saturday’s bout at the Bukom Boxing.
According to Dogboe, Juarez started bleeding from round three and so he was poised to take him out in round five to end the bout as he promised ahead of the encounter.
Juarez and his team have not been convinced with Week’s decision by describing it as a robbery.
However, the former Olympian thinks otherwise.
“In boxing, referees are mandated to protect boxers especially when they are under pressure which sometimes result into death so on the day, I could have destroyed Juarez but as he staggered with just a left hook it was his interest for a stoppage”, he told Francis Abban on the Morning Starr Monday.
Dogboe is now in line to face the WBO’s full champion Jessie Magdaleno, who had to pull out of a fight against Juarez due to a wrist injury.