I thought the show was an excellent one, some outstanding performances from a number of fighters and some excellent fights. The technical standard appears to be rising in the country and this was evident from the first fight onwards. Jordan did himself, his coach, his gym and the country proud with his performance against Buakaw. Buakaw did win the fight clearly enough in the end, but it was not an easy fight for him in any way. Jordan hurt Buakaw, was not intimidated by him, and never looked outclassed at any time. He also showed great heart when hurt. I have to agree with Hawkman, the reason some people would be cheering for Buakaw is that it was him that they came to see, he was their hero. That said, at the end of the fight I am sure Jordan would have gained everyone's respect.

As for the Tim and Yodyut fight, Yodyut was winning very clearly by moving off launching very well timed body kicks and then when the action went to a closer range, he cleverly moved in grabbing the body, using circle knees and throwing Tim. He had avoided Tim's bombs very skilfully and even took a couple without effect early in the fight. As for the stoppage, I made the call for the safety of Yodyut and I would do exactly the same again in the same situation. I am experienced at looking at how badly fighters are hurt, and being unemotionally attached, as well as close to the action, I felt I was a better position than the fans or the corner to make the call. Do I make mistakes? Yes of course I do, would I change this decision in hindsight, no.

Yodyut was very game, but he was hurt, had received two counts and hadn't responded to my requests to raise his hands at the end of either of those counts. Given the three count rule, I had a choice of letting him carry on taking a beating around the head until the round ended - and possibly take one punch too many - or stop the fight. The rules didn't allow me to give him another count to recover and he was no longer using skill to the prevent punches landing, just using courage against a naturally bigger fighter. I am not preprepared to take the responsibility for a boxer having seriou brain injury if it is at all possible to prevent, and UK Muay Thai definitely doesn't need a serious brain injury either. As part of a vetting process, Sport England were observing at the recent Reebok show unannounced and were impressed by the professionalism and the standard of officiating. The sport can't afford any disasters in the ring.

Generally, when refereeing, I am unlikely to stop fights very easily for cuts or other superficial injuries (in much the same way as referees allow fights to carry on in Thailand). These type of injuries may look bad at times but are cosmetic and not life threatening in any way. Brain injury is very different, I realise that every fighter knows they risk brain injury when they fight, but as a referee I will take the flak from boxers, coaches, fans etc any day of the week than risk the health of a boxer unnecessarily. I would much rather be justifying my actions here than be apologising to a family "...if only I'd have stopped the fight earlier the tragedy may not have happened". It is unlikely that particular fight would have been stopped in Thailand, but I would stop it again in the same situation.

A great show, well done everyone involved (all previously mentioned) but particularly well done from me to Dan and Laura (who do lots of essential background work that sometimes goes unnoticed).