I sincerely doubt that Burnett and company rigged the show. They certainly didn't have a good back-up plan to deal with disqualified contestants, but they aren't going to stoop to unduly influencing judges. It would be much too difficult to keep under wraps.

The truth of the matter is that poor judging has always been a problem in boxing. I remember watching the George Foreman - Axel Schultz fight, Foreman's final title defense. I thought Schultz creamed Foreman, and all of the ringside announcers thought so as well. The odd thing was that throughout the entire fight, Harold Lederman scored the fight completely opposite - giving Foreman almost all of the rounds. All three judges ended up seeing the fight the same way Lederman did, much to my astonishment.

I'll be very interested to see how the fight is edited. I really can't see how they can cut out Sergio being out on his feet - to cut immediately from the final bell to after he was brought back to his corner and cogent would be quite awkward. And is Burnett going to just max out the volume on his stirring musical score when the crowd boos? This is going to require some heavy manipulations if it goes down the way VegasFightWriter describes. Hopefully, NBC will put the complete fight on the net.