Almost a year later, Bryant Perrella still can’t understand how only one judge had him beating Tony Harrison.

Perrella settled for a split draw with the former WBC super welterweight champion in their 12-round, 154-pound fight last April 17 at Shrine Auditorium & Exposition Hall in Los Angeles. The southpaw from Fort Myers, Florida, landed 12 more punches overall than Harrison (150 to 138) and threw 239 more shots (692 to 453), according to CompuBox’s unofficial statistics, but judge Max De Luca scored eight rounds for Harrison (116-112).

Judge Lou Moret scored nine rounds for Perrella (117-111). Judge Zachary Taylor scored their fight a draw (114-114).

“The scoring was crazy,” Perrella told krikya360.com. “I don’t understand. It’s like a damned if you do, damned if you don’t type thing in boxing because everybody has their own paradigm. As a judge, I’m sure they look at things different. They favor things, their own different things, maybe that they [like offensive] guys, maybe they like defense, maybe they like people throwing more punches, harder punches, ring generalship. You know, everybody kind of has their own thing that they’re biased towards as a judge, I believe.

“Maybe that’s something that played out. But at the end of the day, I feel like I showed a little bit of everything in that fight. And when you put together, OK, I threw significantly more, landed significantly more punches. Then I hurt him on several occasions. I can’t see how any judge could have him winning that fight at all. I just don’t understand it. Because even the rounds that he was going forward, those were the worst rounds that he had. And he was doing that the majority of the fight.”

Neither Perrella nor Harrison has fought since their draw in a fight FOX televised. They’ll return to the ring Saturday night in separate 10-round bouts Showtime will televise as part of the Erickson Lubin-Sebastian Fundora undercard from Virgin Hotels Las Vegas (10 p.m. ET; 7 p.m. PT).

Perrella (17-3-1, 14 KOs) will meet Mexican prospect Kevin Salgado (14-0, 9 KOs) in the opener of Showtime’s broadcast. Detroit’s Harrison (28-3-1, 21 KOs) and Spain’s Sergio Garcia (33-1, 14 KOs) will then square off in that premium cable network’s co-feature.

The 33-year-old Perrella would’ve preferred a rematch with Harrison, but he is certain Harrison wouldn’t have taken it if it was presented to him by Premier Boxing Champions’ founder Al Haymon. All Perrella can do is wonder why, in his estimation, two judges didn’t give him proper credit for his work against Harrison.

“At the tail end was when he started backing off,” Perrella said, “and I would give him a few of those rounds off of like a few good jabs, a few right hands here and there. But those right hands were nullified by me landing left crosses and body shots and uppercuts. And I wasn’t hurt by those punches. It’s kind of weird, but that’s how it goes in boxing. What can I do? It’s part of the game, part of the sport. I can’t cry about it. I just keep moving forward and get better.”

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for krikya360.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.