Kessler camp shocked over judges

[The Fightfan]

To tell you the truth I really don't think it really matters who will be judging or where the venue is. Kessler will easily stop Ward. To me the most protected, overrated fighter right next to David Haye. Don't get your panties in a twist I am done my little rant.

[Kirkland Laing]

What's the latest then? They must have sorted this one way or another before now.

[skel1983]

Best course of action now would be to get Terry O Conner to ref it, sort of even it out for Kessler .

[jangeorg]

This is an absolute joke!!

A challenger that isnt a draw, he hasnt even faced a rated super middle and he gest to dictate that he challenges at home, with his nationality judges and ref!!

Kessler should pull out, or at the very least take his belt off the line, then at least if he does get robbed of a KO because of the ref protecting Ward or if he gest robbed on the cards, then fuuck Ward!! The little pussy hasnt got a belt for all his troubles, then give him a rematch in Denmark and hammer the fuuck out the little biitch!!

Wouldn't it be great if Ward got smacked down 3 times in a row in front of his home town audience?
Sweet karma penalty!

[Beanflicker]

Kessler's camp is planting a seed in the minds of boxing fans and maybe the California officials too. He knows this fight is likely to be a close decision, given Ward's style, so he's going to do all the posturing he can.

[jangeorg]

What's the latest then? They must have sorted this one way or another before now.

Oakland Ward-Kessler Fight May Not Be Sanctioned - cbs5.com

[amat]

You Euros have such a twisted view of America. 3 American judges, who cares? If 2 of those judges are from Los Angeles then they probably hate Ward anyways. It's cool, don't worry America can handle this.

[skel1983]

You Euros have such a twisted view of America. 3 American judges, who cares? If 2 of those judges are from Los Angeles then they probably hate Ward anyways. It's cool, don't worry America can handle this.

Come on Amat lets put it on the other shoe, imagine Hatton was fightinG marquez in Manchester and two of the three judges were from Manchester imagine the uproar from our American friends.

[killersheep]

You Euros have such a twisted view of America. 3 American judges, who cares? If 2 of those judges are from Los Angeles then they probably hate Ward anyways. It's cool, don't worry America can handle this.

Come on Amat lets put it on the other shoe, imagine Hatton was fightinG marquez in Manchester and two of the three judges were from Manchester imagine the uproar from our American friends.

Let me preface this with a "I think all three judges should be from neutral countries" BUT.

Oakland is twice as far from LA than Manchester is from London. Would a London fighter get the same bias as a Manchester one would?

[ross]

Oakland is twice as far from LA than Manchester is from London. Would a London fighter get the same bias as a Manchester one would?

Are you asking if fighters from the same country fought?

Rather than an American in his hometown with American judges and ref against a Danish world champion?

[amat]

All I say is that in fairness to California, we have a pretty strong commission by today's standards. In Vegas this occurs all the time right? Did Calzaghe not get the nod over Hopkins? I'm sure they are more then capable of handling this.

However, if the rules dictate another international judge, get one, but know that there is more to scoring a fight then just where you're from.

[jangeorg]

Some news from eb.dk

Sauerland informs about some changes

The reff is Jack Reiss from California. Side-judges are Steve Morrow (California), Stanley Christodoulou (South Africa) and Michael Hook (Sweden)

[sumkalambay]

To tell you the truth I really don't think it really matters who will be judging or where the venue is. Kessler will easily stop Ward. To me the most protected, overrated fighter right next to David Haye. Don't get your panties in a twist I am done my little rant.

you'd be singing a different tune if Ward was white.

[ross]

The ref should be British or neutral, I remember Robin Reid getting fuucked over by home town refs against Lacy and Ottke.

The lacy ref was so biased, when Lacy landed on his arse, the dopey ref helped pull him up

[Fenster]

You Euros have such a twisted view of America. 3 American judges, who cares? If 2 of those judges are from Los Angeles then they probably hate Ward anyways. It's cool, don't worry America can handle this.

So the American judges are so prejudice, biased and incompetent that they will score against their countryman if from a different area?

How can we trust them to score fairly when non-Americans are involved then? Damn..