NOT many know that a Filipino was one of the three judges who worked the welterweight unification bout between Errol Spence and Shawn Porter at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday (Manila time).
Rey Danseco judged the action-packed 12-round bout, an early consensus as Fight of the Year contender, along with Larry Hazzard and Steve Weisfield.
Now based in San Francisco, California, the 46-year-old Filipino saw the fight 116-111 for Spence, who eked out a split decision win as Weisfield also had the 2012 Olympian winning by the same score, 116-111.
Hazzard saw Porter the winner, 115-112.

Spence knocked down Porter late in the 11th round with a left hand to the chin, which Porter later admitted was the turning point of the bout.
“I think that knockdown was the difference. I couldn’t come back to the corner with my head down after that,” Porter said.

The victory had the 29-year-old Spence unifying the International Boxing Federation (IBF) and World Boxing Council (WBC) 147-lb. titles. The New York native also kept his unblemished record at 27-0, with 21 KOs.
Danseco was a former sportswriter and boxing host and commentator when he was still in Manila, but has focused on his work as a ring judge since 2004.
He has worked more than 40 world title fights, with the Bernard Hopkins-Jean Pascal light-heavyweight match, Canelo Alvarez vs. Austin Trout, the Leo Sta. Cruz-Abner Mares rematch, Julio Cesar Chavez against Andy Lee, Jhonny Gonzalez versus Jorge Arce, and the Khalid Yafai-David Carmona match among the prominent ones.
Danseco graduated from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines with a bachelor degree in Journalism.
He was the recipient of the Judge of the Year award by the WBC in 2012.
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