The wpkl need to adopt an absolutely no protest rule
like the one we have at WIKBA-and that most responsible Orgs
already have..

Finality, stability, and reasonable predictablity are
absolutely essential for sanctioning bodies if they want
respect and credibility.

Rematches solve almost all of these "we wuz robbed" or
"it was a hometown decision" problems.

Unfortunately, they shot themselves in the foot,
because they wanted to control the results of the
fight; after an international three judge panel
did the unimaginable; and ruled against
the home town fighter.

That would actually have been kind of funny
if their response to a minor problem
(a damn fool statement by the chairman)
were not so irresponsible and thus damaging
to the sport.

Right now, theres a lot of dirty politics and intrigue
in the Netherlands' KB world-and the vicious
infighting there is really hurting their image.

But, to solve this current protest abuse problem, which
is NOT going away, they need to tell the world EXACTLY
WHY they believe the 3 judges (they themslves selected)
were biased-OR-apologize to the 3 discredited judges;
give the title back to Hart; and call for a
rematch-with NO Sanctioning fee charged to the
promoter.(since they obviously didnt give the promoter his money's
worth the first time)


Unfortunately the WPKL chairman showed his abysmal ignorance of
womens MT and KB and current international standards
when he suggested that Soumia really wasnt qualified
or only marginally qualified.(Why then did he sanction it?)

But thatn was only the beginning of his problems.
Then he showed showed himself to be a GRADE A bungler
when he used (read: exploited) his own ill advised
statements to justify a protest that alleged that his own organization
was probably biased-along with the well known judges they selected

How pathetic is THAT???


Dan

PS As for the fighters, I believe BOTH fighters were
very well qualified to fight for a world title.
WIKBA would sanction world title bouts for either
or both of these two fine fighters.

But, they would both need to understand
that any judges decision would be final
and they would have to fight under the
world standard rules for MT: 5x3.