Hoping that we can take a lot of positives from this, just to clear some things up that have been written inaccurately.

The Prathet fight was very close, I am friends with Prathet and I used to help him get fights I introduced him to Parnpetch who I got a lot of seminar work for leading to a full time position. It was some time ago that I helped him get the hudders and kotsur fights. The fight was too close to score as a biased cornerman so I wont give my opinion of it until ive seen the proper DVD.
I was proud of panicos win or lose because he was really bad with chest infection and has a newborn baby so not had much rest or sleep.
Prathet did himself no favours with the first foul in round 5 which was definitely a foul, the 2nd one wasn’t a foul at all but the referee was confused.
Just to point out the referee hasn’t passed any courses by Tony, I am not making a public complaint or attack on any official but just to make it clear he hasn’t passed a course.
Prathet also fouled holding the ropes a fair few times his leg was caught which can throw a fight when its close. I am with Panicos’ performance as he hasn’t had ¼ of the experience of Prathet and we took the fight as a learning experience for Panicos to develop, it was a lower purse than Panicos usually but I thought we could learn and gain so much from fighting Prathet.

I don’t think anyone was judging when not watching the fight, I know there was a fair few people ringside who were not judging as Rob has said.
There was 1 judge who has passed assessment judging the fights.

The rules meeting it was Sandy Holt who explained that the fights would be scored on muaythai criteria on effect and the fight as a whole. I did not hear anyone mention that takedowns would not be scored and I have checked with 6 other people that were present incase I missed it.
It was a good fight, great for the crowd and I would encourange any UK promoters to get Michael over and get him on some of the big shows, I will definitely actively try to promote his name and Jersey Thais fighters over here.
Regardless of the takedowns in the clinch and taking the leg there were a a fair few high scoring techniques delivered that I believe helped the judges come to their decision, some being; off balancing/turning in the clinch and kneeing, kneeing the body in the clinch while Michael kneed the leg, getting Michaels back and kneeing the back from the clinch, avoiding bodykick and kicking the back. Also rounds 4 and 5 loss of position and offbalanced.
I hope this is somewhat constructive and after mine and Panicos’ fights coming up I will cut a HQ copy from the DVD for youtube and post it for everyone to watch and judge.

Thanks to all the guys from Jersey we were well looked after and the venue / show is class puts a lot of the uk ones to shame.