Antuan, I understand you felt you had won, many fighters often do after a fight; some with justification and some with less justification. I also know you were emotional at the time and are still a young man. I appreciate the apology that you gave to Liam and me. However, I feel a formal and public apology to the promoters would be warranted. They spent a lot of money on bringing you over to fight and treated you very well indeed. I didn't witness the incidents at the weigh-in detailed above by Alby, but have no reason to doubt what he says is 100% true, I felt he was very professional and generous throughout(as was Ronnie, Mark and everyone else involved). Everyone wants to win. However, I am saddened that someone with your skills and profile in the sport (representing a great Thai gym in a foreign country) wishes to win so badly that they try to do so at any cost; fair or foul.

On a personal level, I will look at the fight on video to see what I think the decision should be. However, the decision is the decision, and can't be changed by complaining nor should any decision ever be. Since you were treated very fairly by the promoters and you have behaved less than professionally, perhaps you should reflect on the way you conducted yourself towards them and avoid doing the same thing to other promoters in future. People will appreciate you and your skills far more if you do. I personally have brought a number of Thai champions (Lumpinee, Rajadamnern and Omnoi) to the UK to fight over the years and all have conducted themselves very respectfully and been very humble outside of the ring. All made weight without complaint even if they had to skip or sauna. Some have even had what I considered to be bad decisions given against them but all accepted the decisions in a dignified way. Everyone who watched those champions looked up to them for the way they conducted themselves. They were inspired both to train to try to achieve their skill level and also to develop their attitude.

On a technical point, whatever decision the judges come to in terms of individual points scores, as Liam correctly pointed out above, all the judges points are not added up together to come to a decision either here or in Thailand. A majority system is used in Muay Thai which ensures no biased or corrupt single judge can influence an overall decision. Similarly in Thailand boxers are required to make the weight for titles fights and this is followed strictly at both main stadiums (and TV stadiums in my experience). Certainly making weight in some bet fights in the provinces isn't such of an issue where fights can be agreed without any weigh-ins at all.

Good luck in your future fights, but please be aware how you conduct yourself before and after the fight reflects on you as well as your actual performance in the ring. For example, I remember JWP losing to Steve Wakeling in a WBC world title fight a few years ago, yet was held in high regard as a fighter and a man for his attitude afterwards.