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    DARCHINYAN PROTESTS FIGHT WITH MARES

    Tert.am
    11.01.11

    After viewing the Abner Mares versus Vic Darchinyan bout several
    times, Elias Nassar, the manager of the former IBF/WBC/WBA champion is
    disgusted with the scoring and the referee of the SHOWTIME bantamweight
    bout. Nassar talks to Fightnews and gives reasons for his protest
    that includes YouTube links.

    "I find it very difficult to accept the loss of my fighter after
    viewing the replay of the fight countless times. Directly after
    viewing the bout, I initially accepted the final result. I noted
    that the fight was very close and without bias I had Vic Darchinyan
    winning 114-112," said Nassar.

    "I also initially accepted that the fight was close enough for any
    person who may have watched the bout to pick either fighter as the
    winner and the rounds could have been judged for the frequency of
    punches Mares was throwing or for the clean hard punches being landed
    by Vic."

    Further Nassar said that he doesn't accept what he called the "sub
    standard officiating of the bout by referee Howard and one of the
    judges".

    "In relation to one of the judges scorecard's, I am dumbfounded one
    judge could have scored nine out of twelve rounds to Mares including
    the last seven rounds. There is no way whatsoever that Mares could have
    won nine out of twelve rounds. What is also most alarming though is
    the refereeing of the bout. This collectively has lead to a official
    protest being lodged," he said.

    "I purposely waited to view the bout in it's entirety to make one
    comment on the bout. Vic Darchinyan was hit with blatant and illegal
    low blows. Vic was hit with over 20 low blows over the duration of the
    bout, 14 of which were direct hits to his groin area. The game plan of
    Mares was to push Vic back, but with low blows. On the the fourth low
    blow administered by Mares he was deducted one point for that blatant
    low blow, for the remainder of the bout Vic was hit with a further
    10 direct low blows, five of these low blows were given on the run
    warnings by referee Howard but there was no further point deductions.

    A week after the fight to our surprise a Sports Sciences documentary
    that was produced by the US Division of Fox Sports aired, this episode
    was produced two years earlier. It demonstrated what exactly happens
    when a fighter is hit with low blows. The person demonstrating the
    action of throwing a low blow was none other than Abner Mares."




    From: A. Papazian
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