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Boxing: NSAC names officials for Pacquiao-Ugas fight

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Manny Pacquiao and Yordenis Ugas face off ahead of their welterweight showdown. Ryan Hafey, Premier Boxing Champions/file" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/sports/08/19/pacquiao-vs-ugas.jpg"/><figcaption>Manny Pacquiao and Yordenis Ugas face off ahead of their welterweight showdown. <em>Ryan Hafey, Premier Boxing Champions/file</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>The Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) has assigned Russel Mora Jr. to serve as the referee in the fight between Manny Pacquiao and Yordenis Ugas this weekend at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.</p><p>Mora will officiate his second Pacquiao bout after calling the shots in the Pacquiao versus Adrien Broner fight in January 2019. Pacquiao defeated Broner via a lopsided decision.</p><p><a href="https://www.boxingscene.com/manny-pacquiao-yordenis-ugas-nevada-commission-assigns-familiar-panel-judges--160001">Boxing Scene</a> also reported that two Nevada-based judges will score the fight. One is Dave Moretti and the other is Patricia Morse Jarman. The third judge is New Jersey’s Steve Weisfeld.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/08/20/21/pacquiao-is-defending-super-champion-insists-gibbon">Pacquiao is the defending WBA super champion going to Ugas fight, maintains Gibbons</a></li></ul><p>Moretti has served as a judge in five of Pacquiao&#x27;s last seven fights.</p><p>In the Pacquiao versus Keith Thurman fight, Moretti scored the Filipino a 115-112 winner against the American.</p><p>Weisfeld, for his part, judged in Pacquiao versus Timothy Bradley in April 2016, when favored the Filipino with a 116-110 card.</p><p>Of the three judges, only Morse Jarman has not judged in any of Pacquiao’s 71 professional fights.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/08/19/21/analysts-favor-pacquiao-over-ugas-but-it-wont-be-easy">Boxing: Analysts favor Pacquiao over Ugas, but it won&#x27;t be easy</a></li></ul><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1751745" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

Mora will officiate his second Pacquiao bout after calling the shots in the Pacquiao versus Adrien Broner fight in January 2019. 