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Nobody here seems to take in account the position WPKL put itself in just after the fight.
Basicly I think the WPKL had 3 options:
1) Do nothing. And with that covering their own mess leaving Mary Hart a Worldtitle which apparently was “given” to her since Soumia because of her age (18) and inexperience (this was her 3th A-class fight) never had a chance to win this fight in the first place.
2) Review the fight with a new “uncompromised” jury.
3) Call it a “no contest” (think that is the English word, but I’m not sure), and do a rematch ASAP.
So basicly a choice of 3 evils.
All 3 options hurt both fighters and the WPKL itself.
Of course this makes the international jury present look bad to the outside world. But it’s an internal WPKL problem. Fact is the international jury was disqualified by (maybe unintentional) but very clumsy words of one of it’s own high officials.
So are they willing to take the blow for a screw-up of one of their own or not? I think they will since I expect them to be very much aware of what actually happened.
One can even argue WPKL is one of the few sanction body’s self critic enough to take steps to fix it’s own srew-ups. Most SB’s would have covered up and waited until the whole thing was blown over. If they did it the right and smartest way???? That is a different question. At least they did something where most SB’s would have called it a day.
Fortunately this whole affair doesn’t reflect the fight itself. It was a great fight with two great fighters. Both very much worthy being World Champions. Too bad it has to end this way. I hope both agree on a rematch very soon. That would be the proper way to go I think.