Journalist Kevin Iole's biased tactics exposed and undressed - judge him yourself!

Kevin Iole, currently working for one of the major online news networks, demands Arthur Abraham to be suspended for 6 month for punching Andre Dirrell on the canvas in a serious illegal blow. Arthur Abraham was disqualified for the foul. Kevin Iole is entitled to his opinion as everyone else, but let's see how strictly he follows his OWN rules regarding fouls, and how he fares as a journalist, in a profession impartiality is a minimum requirement not a virtue. This thread is solely about Kevin Iole's qualities as a journalist, his lines are on the stake not the incidents he writes about.


Kevin Iole, March 30, 2010:

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Let's go back in time!


A highly controversial incident during Marquez-Pacquiao I, May 8, 2004

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Marquez is very clearly defenseless and since his left glove touches the canvas, officially down for over a second when Pacquiao hits him with his money punch, the flush left hand. Marquez complains for a split second then loses counsciousness for a few before barely getting up. The referee does not disqualify Pacquiao but rules it a knockdown. The journalists are there to be objective, if the referee isn't, let's see:


Kevin Iole: Marquez, Pacquiao brawl to draw - Scoring error by judge makes difference in controversial result, May 9 2004, LV

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No further mention of the 1st round in the article.

Kevin Iole completely ignores the "heinous blow" landed by Pacquiao and the ONLY controversial thing in the fight in his book was the different scoring of the 1st round. In fact, he stunningly starts with "The hangman was coming to send JMM to the gallows"!

Iole wrote another article on the same day, still only dealing with the debated scoring of the 1st round. "Manny Pacquiao would be the WBA/IBF featherweight champion today had judge Burt Clements been aware that he was able to score a round 10-6." Iole doesn't only ignore a disqualification or suspention call on Pacquiao, but feels Pacquiao should be the WINNER!


Kevin Iole: Fighters Bring Different Strategies to Rematch, May 15, 2008, before Marquez-Pacquiao II

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How come Kevin Iole remembers Pacquiao "strafing" Marquez with lefts, but doesn't remember the one left hand he'd disqualify and suspend other fighters for 6 month? How come he doesn't have a bad word for the illegal shot "that should have felled a heavyweight in the second"?

DOUBLE STANDARD

Kevin Iole remembers the fight all right, but his biased pen lets one fighter get away with the very serious foul and would suspend another fighter for 6 months.


"The hangman was coming to send Juan Manuel Marquez to the gallows"

Can you imagine

"The hangman was coming to send Andre Dirrell to the gallows"


That is Kevin Iole. Would you employ such a journalist if your job was to find the most impartial, unbiased and objective writer?

 

That's all that matters. Glove on the canvas, unable to defend himself, and a flush left hand lands on his face a full second later. Deja vu? But this is of course not about Pacquiao or Abraham, one got away with it, the other got - rightfully - diqualified.

No. This is about Kevin Iole's double standard of a very similar situation judged completely the opposite way, which in my book is the total failiure of the journalist's first rule: impartiality. Abraham did an awful job and paid for it. But Iole's foul is also very severe in his profession and should not be ignored.

 

Dude, you don't have a clue. If I was biased, why would I say the DQ was just and Dirrell was seriously hurt? But even if I am biased despite my first action being giving Dirrell his props, I can be biased on a boxing forum. Iole can't be biased in his profession. That's about it.

 

I don't know if such a punch can be ruled accidental, I mean it ended the fight for good, it's a DQ whether he accidentally landed one too much or intended to cheat.

First it was about the jab/slip before the incident and unrelated to it, 2nd I never said it was a KD, I said it could be ruled a KD depending on the ref since there was a punch landing at the time of the slip. Pac clearly hits Marquez while he's down, even if it's not that serious, if Iole comes down as hard vs. illegal blows, mentioning it would've been the minimum. He completely ignores one (less serious) case and would ban in another.