Comments Thread For: Naoya Inoue-Ramon Cardenas: Thomas Taylor to referee undisputed title fight

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Four highly regarded officials have been selected for the stateside return of one of the sport?s very best fighters...
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[CPNUTKnockoutFreshMart]

It looks like they have put together a good crew to officiate the fight. I hope that they do their best work , that's what all fighters deserve from ring officials. Nothing pisses me off more than a non combatants mistakes , carelessness , ineptitude, or the worst , corruption, costing a guy a fight. Fighters dedicate their whole lives and risk their lives, they work too hard and risk too much to get screwed like we see happen way too often.

[Griever0730]

It looks like they have put together a good crew to officiate the fight. I hope that they do their best work , that's what all fighters deserve from ring officials. Nothing pisses me off more than a non combatants mistakes , carelessness , ineptitude, or the worst , corruption, costing a guy a fight. Fighters dedicate their whole lives and risk their lives, they work too hard and risk too much to get screwed like we see happen way too often.

Completely agree. But as top notch a panel of officials as this is, it really won't matter. Inoue is gonna destroy this guy. Seen Cardenas on Probox a few times and while he has shown to be a solid fighter, this is an astronomical leap in class for him and he doesn't seem to have anything that could trouble Inoue IMO. Hope it's a good one while it lasts.

[Oregonian]

Completely agree. But as top notch a panel of officials as this is, it really won't matter. Inoue is gonna destroy this guy. Seen Cardenas on Probox a few times and while he has shown to be a solid fighter, this is an astronomical leap in class for him and he doesn't seem to have anything that could trouble Inoue IMO. Hope it's a good one while it lasts.

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The amount of ROBBERIES we’ve seen in the US on foreign fighters has been way too many to count. This fight should have happened in Japan where Inoue is superstar.
But I agree with you, this fight will not see the 10th round, let alone the 12th.

Foreign fighters have nothing to prove in the US anymore especially with the influx of untold riches from one of the greatest countries in the world, led by Turki the legend.

[SteveM]

This is an interesting new development - revealing the judges and refs a few days before the fight and how much they get paid. I always wondered.

It is in fact not a great amount when considering the money involved in these fights - I'm sure Inoue is getting at least a million and probably twice that.

So given that a judge gets $2,000 per fight, wouldn't it be easy to corrupt a judge with $20K in one form or another? ......... [if you need to ask how then you lack imagination]