How about them undercard fights?

[KananKrus]

Linares was ahead 99-91 on one card and 98-92 on the other two. Indeed, it was unfortunate for the Venezuelan.

He should have boxed his way till he heard the bell of the 12th round, then surely his hands were the one that could have been raised for his second belt.

A side note to the ugly cut... it is highly possible Linares did not respond well to the age old remedy to cuts even by the most experienced cutmen in the ring, it is to apply pressure using clean gauze with epinephrine and then apply Vaseline. After that proved ineffective, Joe Chavez, the Linares team cutman, was out of sorts with any other alternative treatment. The oozing continued way too harmfully.

I do think that the gusher, caused by a legal hit tho', more than anything, was the main reason De Marco won over Linares. He was seriously staring at a points loss; lucky!