Is it time for a review of officials/officiating procedures?

It might have been incompetence last night but you're kidding yourself if anyone thinks it's not corruption 99% of the time.

I mean, isn't it funny that the Polish lad Kell Brook 'knocks out' by missing 2 punches gets stopped because the ref doesn't want to see another Michael Watson moment but Amir Khan is allowed to continue against Prescott despite barely being able to stand up after the 1st knockdown?

Basically, until I see some 'incompetence' go against the home fighter I'm going to carry on believing that boxing is a disgusting cluster**** of brown envelopes and remuneration.

 

carry on believing that boxing is a disgusting cluster**** of brown envelopes and remuneration.

:rofl

 

will anything come out of the timekeeping "error" last night? should be a NC with the title staying with Philbin tbh. most i expect though is the bbbc to order a rematch and macca to vacate.

 

The Polish lad who was throwing nothing back all fight and was warned in the previous interval by the ref that he would stop it if he didn't start trying?

Take a moment to thing about it. Why was there ANY need whatsoever to fix that Kell Brook fight to ensure Brook won?atsch

 

Rematch is needed. Enzo won't, and shouldn't have to vacate, though. Won't be an NC either. Theres no precidence in boxing for either course of action.

 

As well as being a massive sweeping statement, I just don't see how you could come to that conclusion.

The reason it happens so regularly is that no one is disciplined, no one is corrected, there seems to be no regular review of performance, etc.

IJL should not be allowed to judge because he doesn't seem capable of turning in an accurate scorecard that reflects the bout. Why hasn't he been removed from judging until retrained, just like any other job on earth?

If no one corrects your errors, then why would you seek to do so? There's no repercussions, as far as I can see, to ****ing up. NJSAC removed the Williams-Lara judges pending further retraining. That should be the standard for consistently poor reffing//judging.

Is there corruption? Undoubtedly. But more likely it's comfortable incomptence.

 

^^^^

 

You said it yourself in your next post mate, it's a big "club" as far as the men in grey suits are concerned.

Last night was a debacle and I'm not so sure it can be written-off as mere "incompetence".

I tried to dig-out Mand's old thread on officiating last night but couldn't find it. Would be interesting if we could get some sort of "log" on suspect moments.

You also can't rule out links to gambling I suppose, which is big business.

 

I'd rule out gambling in a British title fight. Its a relatively small market and the bookmakers would see any suspect betting patterns like with Nicky Cook-Ricky Burns.

 

Maybe they'd have lost a decent sum had the fight ended early either way?

Not saying it's gospel, far from it, just that gambling cant be ruled out as a potential influence on outrageous or dubious happenings.

 

They'd still see the suspicious amount of bets put on though. Doesn't really matter how much they'd have to pay out, its how much they'd taken on.

 

Full enquiry is needed into what went on together with looking at any suspicious betting patterns to make sure there were no ulterior motives for the shennanigans that went on.

If the BBBC can ban Chisora then they need to ban the official(s) involved in last nights debacle. There are some dodgy officials in the sport who will do anything to appease certain promoters.

 

Promoters like fish head are single handidly destroying the game.

The reason the general public are not intrested in boxing anymore is because of the bull**** descions that go on every single ****ing week .Its gone beyond sickening at this stage, bull**** scorecards are the norm nowadays.

 

How does one relate to the other?