Light Welterweight champion of the World Josh Taylor got an incredibly controversial hometown split decision win over Jack Catterall on Saturday night and Twitter went absolutely berserk about the #ScotlandScrewjob.
And when shady shenanigans go down Paddy just has to step in and do something.
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We can’t talk sense into the scorers for the bout, but we can issue a Justice Refund on Catterall to win selections in the Match Betting market.
And with over 3,000 plucky punters cursing the ringside adjudicators when Josh Taylor was given the nod on a split-decision that’s exactly what we did.
And we might even fork out for a trip to Specsavers for the three visually-impaired fight-watchers following the call to award each fighter a win on a 113-112 score with the decisive view going 114-111 in favour of the belt-holder Taylor despite Catterall battering him like a Mars bar in Govan for much of the fight.
Cue total apoplexy on social media.
But Paddy moved swiftly to right that wrong, making the call to refund stakes because we hadn’t seen a more disgraceful decision by an official since, oh, about 7:15 on Saturday evening…
It can’t get the belts for Jack Catterall, but it’s better than nothing.
Now, how do we sort out VAR…
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