I'm not to surprised that the franchise fighter ended up winning the fight. I thought the draw was fair. Barrera only survived on guile in the later rounds, tring to steal them with occassional/late flurries when most of the quality work was done by Juarez. Round 12 is a case in point. The better punching came from Juarez. Barrera tried to pick his spots and flurry; the sort of thing Marvin Hagler complained about Leonard doing. I thought the quality of Juarez' punching should have carried the round.

With all that's happened in boxing, it's very easy to be cynical about the judging error. Barrera is a PPV franchise with a Packman fight still a possibility while Juarez' bankability is much lower. While there's a good chance nothing untoward may have happened it certainly looks bad when judges can't write/add up.