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So I know vcvc wants me to "let it go man" but I wanted to make sure you guys saw this. Apparently Dan Goosen was sitting behind the judge Hilton Whitaker who was holding his card up so Goosen could read it. The same judge appeared to be speaking to the USBO President during the fight. The USBO is part of the IBO which has Paul ranked #1 at 154lbs. According the ABC prez these are both violations of their rules. The prez also questions whether or not that particular judge is even accredited to judge fights. ABC looking at Williams - Lara fight pictures July 12th, 2011 Keith Terceira ABC President Timothy J. Lueckenoff has been sent screen shots Judge Hilton Whitaker II during the Williams – Lara and has shared these photos with other ABC officers which are in a consulting mode as a result. “There is some issue with the way Whitaker is holding his score card throughout the fight, Williams’s promoter sitting behind him, and the USBO President sitting beside a sitting judge. It is inappropriate to say the least and we have advised Aaron Davis to get a copy of the fight and review it.” We asked Mr. Lueckenoff, if Mr. Whitaker was correct in the way he was waving around the scorecard and could it be perceived conflict of interest the way the seating was. “No our judges are not to hold their scorecards in this manner, an officer of a sanctioning body should not be seated next to a judge, and if Goossen was looking at a scorecard he should have been removed from that seat or asked to leave. Yes, it has the appearance of a conflict of interest, which is not good for boxing. At my fights I always have one of our officials on either side of a judge. Even if nothing is going on it just looks wrong” Tim was asked if Mr. Hilton Whitaker Jr. was an accredited judge with the ABC and we were informed, “Mr. Whitaker has never attended one of our seminars or been accredited through us.” All during the fight a person reportedly to be Whitaker III is speaking to someone to his right, but no one is close to him but his father or Goosen behind him, there is a gentleman seated to his left and another several feet away to his right but the judge is seated between them.

If the Lara-Williams decision bothered you, here is how to contact the NJ State Athletic Board. Obviously nothing will come of it. But I think it's important to let them know that the public recognizes an outright robbery. Perhaps if enough people e-mail, write or call we at least won't see these same judges on any high profile fights. I certainly hope so, because I for one enjoy going to Atlantic City to see fights and don't want my experience marred by poor judging or outright corruption, whatever was the case. http://www.nj.gov/oag/sacb/contact-email.html

I used translate.google.com to translate them and I know it's not perfect. I wanted to get the general idea of what he was saying: "It is unfortunate that 2 fixtures of the sport in our country who are now beginning to give glory to Puerto Rico by wrapping in a dispute like this. I say make up or not but do not let Juanma and Wilfredo shine above all our professionalism we are athletes who will provide glory and good times to PR that we need. Let the ignorance aside and get to work. As said Wilfredo, he does his stuff there and I have mine around here. You are quite right the sport of boxing is big enough for both have their careers and between them and together they make of the most brilliant careers in the future and the benefit of yourselves, our PR and last but far more important to their families! At the end of the road all we have will be the only people that would have remembered you all your life regardless of the seat in which they are both. I apologize for intruding but this the greatest desire and the best advice I can give them both. Much success to your Juanma next Saturday and throughout your career. Wilfredo same to you much much success. Listens to your father in these matters knows more than us together, because many years ago he was down the same road on which we stand and where we have to go. Both my most sincere best wishes and blessings!" Feel free to correct it.

Inspired by SCtrojansbaby's thread early, if you had $100 million at your disposal to make any 5 fights in boxing right now, which 5 would you make?? To make things simple assume that money is the only issue, we'll ignore the rest of the BS. Here's mine: 1- Mayweather vs Pacquiao 2- Pacquiao vs Marquez 3 at 140lbs 3- Haye vs Wlad Klit 4- Hatton vs Witter (i was a big Witter fan when his only loss was to Zab on short notice, he has since embarassed me everytime he's appeared on American TV, but I still think the fight should have happened and would be interesting as they both end their careers) 5- Victor Ortiz vs Patrick Lopez (Lopez is a friend, lives in nearby Londonderry, ranked #19 by BoxRec and Jr Welter and out of all the names above him that he could fight to get in position for a world title shot Ortiz is the best for him, he would make Victor quit again) I'm interested to hear yours and of course have you talk s h i t about mine!