I watch realtime, Dave, for "rescoring" these close contests. As close to live as possible. There is indeed a subjective factor. I love Kaoponglek. LOL. But I really do respect and admire Michael Dicks...first time I saw him fight, Guy Ramsay told me, the man feels no pain. And in every fight I've seen someone who should be dubbed the Wooden Man #2 after Jongsanan. He's hard for sure. Has a no-nonsense forward moving, wrecking machine approach. But in this case, I still award to Kaoponglek.

To quote TonyM: "Judges should be attempting to award a fight to the most effective boxer in Muaythai terms. Most translations of the rules include some suggestion that techniques should be strong to score. The issue is how judges should make an assessment of a strong technique (or one with power). If judges only made an assessment of power from the actions of the boxer who delivers the blow they have only a range of very subjective cues to make that assessment, and the agreement of observers can be quite low when only using those cues. However, if judges assess the effect of the technique they have much more easily agreed upon cues with which to make their assessment. These cues include moving an opponent or causing them to lose balance or show pain."

Michael doesn't show pain, but does lose balance and position here, and as debated in his points loss to the Thai (blanks on name) earlier this year, that was another extremely entertaining and close fight with the same arguments.