I was at the show and my opinion is that David Paquette should have won the fight without a doubt, and I spoke to many people who have been involved in Thai Boxing for many years, and they felt the same. Even certain members of Samkor's corner team felt that he had lost, and they also have years of experience in Thai boxing in the UK, and to a large degree in Thailand. I have the greatest respect for Tony Myers and Craig O'Flynn, top men who love the sport of Muay Thai and want to see it evolve and improve in the UK, but I disagree with their decision this time, therefore I will look at the tape once it is on sale, and if I feel that I was wrong I will come on here and apologise to Tony and Craig. It is not a London thing or a Southern thing, as I believed in my opinion that Richard Cadden had done enough to win when he fought Michael Showers on Pain and Glory, and Michael Showers is a mate of mine. I understand that judging is not a perfect science, and that different people will see fights in different ways, and everyone is entitled to their opinion, and any fighting art that has judges will always have controversial decisions, and this one will not be the last, it is the nature of the sport.
Steven Wakeling was awesome, and as I have stated before, he is the greatest Thai Boxer that the UK has ever produced, after 23 fights he has won the WBC and WMC World Titles, S1 championship in Thailand, and beating JWP and Jomhod.
I did not see all of Kierons fight, so i cannot comment on it, but i know that Alan Keddle felt he had won the fight.
Michael Wakeling was devastating with his left hook KO of Richard Jones. I feel that Richard Jones health should be considered now, as he has suffered quite a few KO losses in a short space of time, a fighters health must come first, I am sure that Pele will be considering this.
Great show, and well done to Dan Green, I hope he did not lose money, as this was a very expensive show to run, with fantastic fights.