Bottomline: bad decisions are most often in the eyes of the beholder-who often sees it on u-tube or dvd, or worse yet, reads about it on the internet squawk boards.

Bad fight decisions, since the mid 19th century in western boxing, are alleged to have occurred in at least 25% of the time-including Thai Boxing, Western boxing, Kickboxing, K-1, San Da, amateur Olympic Wrestling, Shoot boxing, you name it.

Protests are at BEST an exercise in futility which only increases frustration, resentment, cynicism, disrespect for the sport as a whole, and ultimately Paybacks:

"I bad mouth your "questionable" win, then you bad mouth my next victory"

The end results of whinning and bickering: all close hard fought decisions are suspect, and all split decision or even UD victories are tainted at best. And the sport is perceived to be hopelessy corrupt, or at best political and lacking a modicum of professionalism. How does that help anyone???

This sucks!

I wish people, and fighters especially, would learn to accept disapointment if not gracefully, at least with a modicum of equanimity.

Stuff happens: get used to it.

"bad" decisions will never change- even if the MT intelligentsia (an oxymoron?) manage to agree on an MT Pontiff who issues scoring fatwahs that the whole wide world enthusiastically accepts.

There is life after bad decisions..if we will just allow it...

I wish people prtoesting this decision could see the tape of the Tagami vs Bennie "The Jet" Urquidez's final fight.

It was the " The Jets" last fight. He won the decision in las vegas after being decked several times and battered pillar to postfor the majorit fot eh 8 rd fight which allowed him to retire "undefeated"

The decsion was was ludicrous and disgraceful. Truly. I wish Clifton and his friends could see it.

Tagami beat Benny "The Jet" Urquidez like a rented mule. But it was a jury composed 2/3 North Anmerican judges and an American ref (Cecil Peeples) who ruled one of the knockdowns was actually not a knockdown because Urquidez's back side rested on the lower rope instead of the canvass.

after the fight, Bennie's Japanese opponent, Tagami, was asked in the center of the ring by the interviewer, if he thought he had won the fight.

with tears in his eyes, (knowing he had won) he rejected the opportunity to bellyache, or denigrate Benny the Jets "win" and simply said:

(paraphrased) "He respected the honorable judges and their decision, and said Benny was the winner"

And then got down on his hands and knees and bowed deeply and reverentially at the feet of his vanquished opponent, Benny Urquidez, approximately a dozen time:


Thats class, which is so lacking in too many of todays self important fighters

The world does not revolve around you and I or the trivial "injustices" life occasionally hands ALL of us.

Its time to put away the hankies and "man up"

nuff said.




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