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PONTIAC, Mich. -- Sitting before a mass of reporters in the bowels of the Pontiac Silverdome on Saturday night, southpaw Devon Alexander wore the wounds of a beaten man.
Covering Alexander's badly-ripped open right eyelid was a bandage that concealed four stitches, and there was a smaller one over the lower, left corner of his left eye which required two more stitches.
But perhaps more damaging was the inner pain felt by the 23-year-old Alexander, who, nearly an hour earlier, had been dethroned as WBC champion by 27-year-old WBO titlist Tim Bradley (27-0, 11 knockouts) in the first loss of his career following an HBO televised, junior welterweight (140 pounds) bout before a sparse crowd of 6,247.
Bradley was awarded a 10-round, technical decision in their brutal scheduled 12-rounder. An accidental clash of heads that caused searing pain in the left eye of Alexander was something he simply could not overcome.
"Bradley's head went into my eye a little bit. I was pretty dazed when he head-butted me that last time. The head-butts were tremendous. Go back and look at the fight. I don't bleed often, so, I'm not used to being cut. It was kind of on my mind," said Alexander, who slipped to 21-1, with 13 knockouts.
"The head-butts cut up both of my eyes, but my left eye was stinging real bad after that last one. I couldn't open my left eye," said Alexander. "I'm like, 'Man, blood was getting into my eye.' I didn't even know that this cut [on the left eye] was that bad, but the doctor said that it was down to the bone."
On the advice of ringside doctor, Peter Samet, referee Frank Garza ruled that Alexander could not continue. The bout's result would be determined by the ringside judges, whose scorecards read 96-95, 97-93, and, 98-93 for Tim Miller of Ohio, Duane Ford of Nevada and Omar MIntun of Mexico, respectively -- all for the victorious Bradley.
"People are going to say what they want to say," said Alexander. "But, let them get head-butted and try to be in a fight through constant head-butts."
Source: http://boxing.fanhouse.com/2011/01/31/devon-alexander-nurses-post-tim-bradley-wounds-ponders-future/
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