JOSHUA BUATSI went for the jugular and took Willy Hutchinson’s head – but would have been left scratching his at the scorecards.
The bad blood started between the light-heavy pair back in June when one-too-many taunts from the Scottish Traveller sparked JB into action.
The 31-year-old lunged and grabbed Hutchinson by the throat – the man nicknamed Just Business, made it personal.
And at Wembley he got his revenge with a split decision – with one maniac judge needing the sack – after flooring his foe twice.
The judges called the spite-laced slugfest 113-112 insanely to Hutchinson and thankfully 117-108 and 115-110 to JB.
One fan reacted: “113-112? Take their license away asap! Shouldn’t be a split decision at all. Buatsi.”
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Another said: “113-112 for Hutchinson is so ridiculously criminal. Buatsi still takes it, but shouldn’t have been a split decision.”
One fumed: “These judges need to be fired. Buatsi should have beat Hutchinson by majority decision.”
The opener was technical and smart, until the bell rang and Hutchinson whacked one final dig over Buatsi’s guard just as he had lowered it to take a break.
The second stanza heralded the first meaningful punch, when Buatsi cracked over a right hand that found the Scotsman’s face.
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But – in his biggest step-up to date – Hutchinson held his nerve and his feet and worked his way out of trouble.
It was nip and tuck through three, when a a Saudi medical group brand was beamed around Wembley stadium, as a thank-you for their sponsorship.
The fight finally caught fire right at the end of the sixth, Buatsi landed a skull-shuddering right hand and bounced his prey off the ropes two times.
The Croydon savage then went downstairs and slashed at his trunk until Hutchinson folded to the deck and bravely rose at eight, just as the bell went.
Hutchinson rallied in round seven and it looked like he had Buatsi in trouble, but the undefeated London just tucked up and caight the volley on his arms and gloves and he grinned when he came out of his shell unscathed.
Then right on the bell that right-hand honey punch clipped Hutchinson’s whiskers once again.
Hutchinson was taking a battering throughout round eight but it was only the stadiums lights that were knocked out for a second.
Ref Steve Gray had to pause the action until the ring was re-illuminated.
Things got even darker for Hutchinson at the end of round nine when his engine betrayed him and he folded down the canvas for a second time.
Buatsi whacked high and low and it was safer for the battered man to take a breather.
To his credit, Hutchinson kept going to the well and coming back refreshed, he landed a decent left hook in the tenth but Buatsi looked impervious and Hutch entered the championship rounds flagging.
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The Hutch Train huffed and puffed right until the final bell but Buatsi was always in a different class and coasted to victory.
Despite one judge needing the boot immediately for thinking Buatsi lost.
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
