Chris Algieri is a former world titleholder and a current fight analyst constantly milling around fight-week media rooms and speaking to those around the sport.

He doesn’t bet on boxing.

“[B]ecause anything can happen,” Algieri said on Thursday’s episode of ProBox TV’s “Deep Waters.”

“I know it can be the wild, wild West.”

Algieri isn’t alluding to the talent in the ring. He’s speaking about the outside forces that influence boxing judges, who last weekend mirrored the wobbly legged performance that outgoing 140-pound titleholder Rolly Romero exhibited while getting blasted by new beltholder Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz’s heavy-handed blows.

On the debut card of Amazon Prime Video’s Premier Boxing Champions’ pay-per-view in Las Vegas, the judging raised eyebrows in both the Cruz-Romero co-main event and the Sebastian Fundora-Tim Tszyu junior middleweight-unification main event.

Before Cruz closed a one-sided performance with a barrage of head blows that triggered his TKO victory in the eighth round, judge Chris Flores had Romero leading 66-65 on his scorecard – despite Cruz’s forceful showing and Romero having lost a point for holding.

Flores’ fellow judges, Max DeLuca (69-63) and Patricia Morse Jarman (68-64), widely supported Cruz as the fight was waved off.

In the main event, judge Tim Cheatham had Australia’s outgoing champion Tszyu winning 116-112 on his scorecard despite a game showing by replacement challenger Fundora, who outlanded Tszyu in total punches and peppered him with 93 landed jabs. The wounded Aussie, who suffered a grisly head gash in the early going, landed just 39 jabs of his own in Fundora’s split-decision upset triumph.

Judge Steve Weisfeld scored it 116-112 for Fundora and David Sutherland had it 115-113 for Fundora.

“Deep Waters” panelist and former welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi was irate at Flores’ card, saying it reflects a nagging problem with the sport that must be addressed.

“I don’t think a guy who watches that many fights can be that stupid,” Malignaggi said. “Whatever it is [prompting these flawed scorecards] … one thing that’s not a theory is that there are judges who pretty consistently make horrible decisions, and … something has to change in the judging system.”

Among the ideas that have been floated as a slew of major fights arrive this spring – from Devin Haney-Ryan Garcia on April 20 through Saul “Canelo” Alvarez-Jaime Munguia on May 4, the Tyson Fury-Oleksandr Usyk undisputed heavyweight title bout on May 18 and the undisputed light heavyweight bout between champions Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol on June 1 – are increasing the judging panel to five or six.

World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman is conducting a summit of officials to propose that idea for Fury-Usyk, concluding that boxing can’t afford to have such a significant event scarred by bad judging.

Another idea is to sequester the judges in a private room, away from the cheering crowd, to watch the bout on television monitors in isolation.

Algieri doesn’t like that idea.

“Judges are human,” Algieri said. “When they hear the roar of the crowd [on a punch that may have not landed flush], that may sway how the judge feels about the round.

“Call me old-school, [but] I think you’ve got to be in the room. You’ve got to feel those shots. When you’re close to the ring, it’s different. Everything’s faster, more violent, more power. That’s hard to get across on TV. I’ve been to plenty of fights and then watched it on TV when I get back home and thought another thing, because it didn’t look the same. [Judges] need to be in the same room [as the boxers].”

Malignaggi jokingly suggested every judge in the world should be sequestered on an island, kept away from boxing news and potential fight-week influence from sanctioning bodies and promoters who prefer certain high-profile fighters continue winning their fights.

Knowing who’s “supposed to win,” reading press clippings and seeing news coverage of bouts has an influence, Algieri said.

“We call them judges, but they’re more like a jury – they decide our fate,” Algieri said. “Juries are ear-muffed. They’re not supposed to listen to the news. These judges are listening to the news – boxing news – and they understand what the landscape of the sport is. That’s going to have an effect.”

The ultimate motivation to fixing the problem?

“Follow the money,” Algieri said.

As gambling becomes more mainstream, Algieri believes that boxing will be motivated to make the sport more appetizing to bettors, who may act on judging reforms and become more invested in pay-per-per views, live-gate sales and increased television viewership.

“That motivation [to attract increased betting] is a real interesting point,” Algieri said. “When does the commission get fired? When someone gets sued because of money, and gambling is … money. If we can use gambling to make some sweeping changes, this could actually get done.

“Otherwise, it’s just us spinning our wheels, saying, ‘This is for the good of the sport.’”