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The first title defense of IBO super flyweight champion Edrin “The Sting” Dapudong against South African challenger and WBF champion Lwandile Sithyatha of South Africa in East London on July 19, Manila Time, is in danger of being scrapped.
Dapudong’s manager Manny Pinol in an email to Viva Sports/Manila Standard said he would not agree to a last minute change in the referee assigned to the fight.
Pinol told us that he was informed by the IBO that British referee Michael Alexander had been replaced by an official from Johannesburg, South Africa which Dapudong’s manager said “tilted the fight in favor of the South African challenger” since one of the three judges will also be a South African.
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Dapudong’s manager Manny Pinol in an email to Viva Sports/Manila Standard said he would not agree to a last minute change in the referee assigned to the fight.
Pinol told us that he was informed by the IBO that British referee Michael Alexander had been replaced by an official from Johannesburg, South Africa which Dapudong’s manager said “tilted the fight in favor of the South African challenger” since one of the three judges will also be a South African.
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