Here from rds.ca in french and then my humble translation: Plusieurs s’inquiètent de l’impartialité des juges et l’arbitre qui seront d’office à Nottingham pour la finale du 26 mai entre Carl Froch et Lucian Bute. L’IBF m’a confirmé jeudi l’identité des officiels: l’arbitre sera Earl Brown, du New Jersey. Les juges seront Benoit Roussel du Québec, Howard Foster de l’Angleterre et Steve Weisfeld des États-Unis. Monsieur Brown a arbitré 13 combats de championnat du monde. Il s’est déjà retrouvé dans le même ring que Carl Froch, en tant que 3e homme l’an dernier lors du combat entre le Cobra et Glen Johnson. Chez les juges, monsieur Weisfeld a travaillé lors du combat entre Chad Dawson et Bernard Hopkins II, mais rassurez-vous, ce n’est pas lui qui a noté un combat nul. Monsieur Roussel est un habitué des combats de Lucian Bute; il a jugé les 4 derniers combats du champion IBF présentés au Québec. En contrepartie, monsieur Foster connaît aussi Carl Froch pour avoir arbitré quelques-uns de ses combats. Si l’on considère que les officiels des États-Unis sont d’un pays “neutre”, on peut alors affirmer qu’il y a apparence de neutralité Many are worried about a fair judging and refering in the may 26th fight between Carl Froch and Lucian Bute. The IBF confirmed to me the name of the ref and of the judges: The referree will be Earl Brown from New Jersey. The judges will be Benoit Roussel from québec, howard Foster from UK and Steve Weisfeld from US. Mr. Brown ref in 13 championship bouts. He was the third man in the ring in the Froch and Johnson fight. Mr. Weisfeld worked in the last Dawson vs Hopkins fight, he wasnt the judge who scored it a draw. Mr Roussel is a known figure in Bute's fight, he did scored the last 4 of them. In the same way, Mr. Foster knows Carl Froch since he scored in a couple of his fights as well. If we considered the US judge from a neutral country, we can conclude that this appear to be a neutral set of judges and referee.
"we can conclude a neutral set..." They are certainly NOT neutral.... if anything the best we can hope for with this set of officials is that the bias is balanced. Because there's a definite chance that they are biased.
The key here is to see on what biased side the American judge will be :? Or will he be neutral and score it as it is....
Looks pretty balanced to me. American ref isn't a bad idea. Sugar Ray Leonard to commentate, Fat Dan to call it. This ****'s on Epix, but they gon make some noise. :smoke
The only thing missing is Ray's idol SNV as the Russian-speaking color commentator.:deal Sugar Niko: ''In Soviet Russia, boxing watches you!'' This content is protected
All human being are bias. In this particular case, the bias are spread so no fighter should be favored over the other.
