Referee Tony Weeks gave Rolando Romero a gift Saturday with inexplicably poor officiating in the ninth round of Romero’s bout for the WBA super lightweight title against Ismael Barroso at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas.
With Barroso well ahead on the cards of all three judges at the end of eight rounds — Tim Cheatham had it 76-75, David Sutherland had it 77-74 and Steve Weisfeld had it 78-73 — Weeks made two egregious errors in the ninth.
The first didn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things because of the second error.