Featherweight contender Bruce Carrington (13-0, 8 KOs) was handed a highly controversial 10 round majority decision over visiting fighter Sulaiman Segawa (17-5-1, 6 KOs) on Friday night at the Madison Theater Square Garden in New York. City.
Carrington is from New York, so the judges went with the hometown fighter, but he didn’t seem to win. It was badly exposed by Segawa. Segawa’s southpaw style and movement had Carrington looking confused, unsure of what to do, and afraid of being cut by him after being hurt in the second.
The scores were 95-95, 97-93 and 97-93. Boxing News 24 had Segawa 7-3. Carrington was completely outboxed the entire fight by the 33-year-old Ugandan Segawa. Given the wide scores, the judges seemed to focus on Carrington’s activity and ignore the many shots Segawa was landing.
Carrington was beaten to the punch all night and was forced to hold on in the second half. In the tenth, Carrington applied pressure, but it was ineffective, as he repeatedly missed with his shots.
This performance was so bad from Carrington that his promoters at Top Rank had to consider putting him in a rebuild because it was a real defeat in the true sense. They could consider giving Segawa a rematch, but in neutral territory on the West Coast rather than in New York again on Carrington’s home.
In the second round, the lanky Segawa stunned Carrington with a straight left hand into the pipe and then fell on top of him, forcing him to 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 was gone after he was injured in the second. He fought as if he was in the ring with a tiger, and did not want to go on the attack for fear of being chewed by Segawa.
Carrington is not ready for the first fighters at featherweight after this performance, and he can forget his pipe dream of fighting Naoya Inoue. I would lose to that bad guy.
Last updated on 09/27/2024
