Hello...
I wouldnt normally comment on my judging but as Tony Myers has said i got it wrong I will.

I was one of the 2 judges that gave the fight to the French fighter, the other was Paul Hamilton.

I have been on the end of a lot of dodgy descisions abroad as has Paul and believe you me as much as I wanted Andy to win I couldn`t write it that way on my score card.

I had rounds 1 and 2 even and then the third was 10/8 to the French fighter due to the knockdown. This could well have been scored 10/9 if Andy had done enough but I didn`t see it that way although I think Paul did. The Frenchlad was scoring with lots of low kicks (Low kicks cant be ignored if they are moving the opponent) that were moving Andys legs from under him and badly marking them up and although Andy got some great body kicks the French lad also landed some of his own (maybe not as many or as hard but we have to assume effect)

This may come down to how many heavy obviously effective low kicks = one body kick with assumed effect?

Round 4 (a big scoring round) was pretty even but the French fighter scored big with a turning off balance and knee to the head of the falling opponent. I was gonna score it even but for this so i had to score it 10/9 for the French man

Going into the final round I had Andy 3 points down and he pulled it out and won the round 10/ 9 to Andy


My score card was
Andy French
10 10
10 10
8 10
9 10
10 9
47 49

I think Paul scored it the same but gave the 3rd 10 9

The third judge gave it 3 points to Andy.

Before everyone makes a judgement on whether the judges were right i think you should all watch the fight. (Good plug for the DVD Master Sken!)

Anyway, Andy you fought brilliantly and I am sorry that I was part of the reason you lost but at the same time I dont think I have seen you fight this well before. You are more than capable of mixing it with the best and your time will come.