Mundine Camp Intimidation To Be Investigated By IBO
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
International Boxing Organization president Ed Levine says he will look into the alleged intimidation of one of the judges during the recent IBO middleweight title fight between defending champion Daniel Geale and fellow Australian Anthony Mundine last Wednesday.
Levine told BoxingScene.com, insidesports.ph, Standard Today and Viva Sports “at this time we are just accumulating facts and will review alleged intimidation tactics with the British judge” Marcus McDonell who scored the bout 114-113 for Mundine along with Australian judge Derek Milham who scored it 116-113 for Mundine. However, American judge Rich Green had Geale the winner 115-112.
In an email judge McDonnel said “for the future, judges of IBO contests when involved in a Mundine fight, they do need to be protected. We can’t leave people behind us calling us names.”
Meantime, the manager of Geale, Bill Treacy will lodge a protest with the IBO according to well-known boxing personality and writer Ray Wheatly who reported that it was “generally considered that Geale had deserved a clear decision over the former WBA super middleweight champion Mundine.”
Another crucial issue raised by the Geale camp is that referee Garry Dean stopped the fight no less than five times between rounds six and ten to allow Mundine’s corner to fix some loose tape on his glove which appeared to give the tired Mundine time to recover.
There is talk that the IBO may constitute a panel of three independent judges to score the fight by reviewing a tape with the commentary turned off an if in their judgment Geale won then the IBO will order a rematch.
