Victor Loughlin

Corruption or incompetence .
Neither should Be tolerated

 

Shocking night all round for Victor 'God bless' Loughlin hideous score card for Parker and failed to spot the rabbit punch for the Taylor stoppage, time to pack it in.

 

I didn't see all that fight but his card was way off apparently. I do know that he couldn't wait to stop the Taylor fight, he was like lightning the first chance he got. I haven't seen a referee move that fast since Terry O'connor was at the all you can eat buffet.

 

I thought he was awful in Taylor fight...warned the other kid for a 'low' blow which was on belt ,Taylor did the exact same sevonds later and he said nowt,then let the back of head punch go then stopped the fella who was fine and got to his feet on the count of 2

 

The U.K. is now as bad as Germany or the USA for jobbed cards.

These fights are not that difficult to score, as professional judges there is no other explanation for these cards to be so far out other than-

1. An unconscious bias to favour the home fighter
2. Direct financial incentives to favour the Home fighter

It’s clear to me that both 1 and 2 are to blame. I think we need to rotate the judges more in order to avoid 1.
There is nothing you can really do to avoid 2.

 

Teddy calls it out, follow the money

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I'd like to see some investigation done into cards like this. And not just 'what a shocking card, something dodgy has happened' musings. An actual response from the board.

Because there are enough close fights which could go one way but don't which suggest legitimate scoring still happens. You can't just say 'follow the money' or 'look after the home fighter' and see the result you want materialise. In recent times we've seen Lewis Ritson, Luke Campbell, Hughie Fury and Terry Flanagan lose on fairly close fights in which you could have seen them pick up an undeserved split win. It's not like those fights were blatant shutouts to the winner. And they represent various promoters.

Not that I'm backing Loughlin's card of course. It was a disgrace.

 

Victor is one of the very best referees and judges the uk has, to suggest he’d do anything corruptly is shocking, the man loves his job and imo is fantastic at it
I’m not saying I agree in any way with his scorecards in the Parker fight
However I think in Taylor’s fight it was a good stoppage, Ryan simply wasn’t good enough and could have took a severe beating

 

I think one issue in cases like this is that the vast majority of people commenting on the card have watched it on the same broadcast with commentary and a running dialogue as to how the fight is going. Everyone knows when you're watching a fight live you can sometimes struggle to get a feel of how it is going, whilst on television one guy may seem to be miles ahead.

As I suggested above I tend to think if genuine corruption towards the U.K. home fighter was rife we'd see more close split wins towards British fighters. Certainly it was in the home promoters interests for Flanagan to retain his world title against Hooker, Fury to become a world champion, and Ritson to maintain his unbeaten record. And truth be told all could have been given the nod without too much fuss.

 

Do remember there was two forgein judges in Ritson’s case
And I fairness Lewis never complained regarding result

 

I get that sometime people have a bad day in the office but the Williams fight was so clear to the point that nobody should have got that wrong. Absolutely disgraceful.

 

He has a free reign because he is trustworthy and an elite ref/judge
Victor is the same man who gave sat hell the British title fight in a close on against butcher, so he certainly isn’t biased

 

True, but the point I'm making is that if British judging was rife with corruption, fights like that would more often than not go to the home fighter. Had Ritson won on a split there would have been some mild disagreement at the time, which largely blows over quite quickly, and we all move on to the point at which next time he fights, the previous win is written up as a bad night at the office against a tougher than expected opponent. I don't think Ritson won the fight and I don't think he thinks he did either, hence no complaint; it's just an illustration to say fighters taking on the house are given the win they deserve in British rings.

You can say the same things about Hughie Fury against Parker, Flanagan against Hooker and Campbell against Mendy. Possibly Crolla as well to be honest thinking of recent title fights.

On a wider point, I'm not suggesting corruption is rife; more than judging a fight can be very difficult and there should be a process whereby, when something like this happens, a judge is required to defend his decision under a formal review.