(Photo credit: Lucas Noonan/Premier Boxing Champions) By Scott Gilfoid: With his second consecutive controversial win over Tomoki Kameda (31-2, 19 KOs) taking place last Sunday, WBA “regular” bantamweight champion Jamie McDonnell (27-2-1, 12 KOs) is finding out that many fans saw the wrong guy get his hand raised in victory at the American Bank Center, in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA.
Instead of acknowledging the boxing fans as being the true judges of who won the fight instead of the three guys that were assigned to the fight, McDonnell is lashing back at the fans, saying it’s “stupid” for them to see the 24-year-old Kameda as having won the fight, because he believes he didn’t win.
Unfortunately, that’s not how it goes. You and the judges don’t who wins or who loses a fight, the fans decide. I hate to say it but the fans saw Kameda as winning the fight – at least many of the fans outside of the UK. I know from looking at the responses from McDonnell’s British fans, many of them saw him as the winner. But in looking at the fans outside of the UK, the fans with no dog in this hunt, many of them saw Kameda winning. I know I had Kameda winning 8 rounds to 4, and I also had him winning the first McDonnell-Kameda fight last May.
“It’s stupid to think that Kameda won. The seven and five-point margins, on two of the judge’s scorecards, were right,” McDonnell said via RingTV.com. “How anyone can have it close is beyond me. I won that fight by five or six points. I absolutely smashed him.”
Oh my, McDonnell sound a tad bit deluded, doesn’t he? He doesn’t seem to like the fact that the fans have spoken, and they saw Kameda winning the fight. McDonnell is just going to have to live with his tainted victory, and be happy that three people that were working as the judges that night gave him the victory. But unfortunately the masses have spoken, and they believe that Kameda got robbed and should have been given the win.
Of course, McDonnell can always give Kameda a third fight so that he can try and prove to the fans that he can really beat him in true terms without controversy, but my guess is McDonnell will scat from the scene and live with his controversial decision rather than risking his hide a third time against Kameda.
The 5’10” McDonnell says he’s going to fight one more time at bantamweight at then move up in weight to 122. I honestly don’t know how McDonnell even made weight for the fight this time around, because he looked like a human skeleton during the weigh-in on Saturday. McDonnell looked not only painfully thin at making the 118lb limit, but he looked sickly to me. It can’t be good for a fighter his height draining down in weight to make 118lbs. The guy probably should have moved up in weight to super bantamweight at least two fights ago, because he’s just too big for the division.
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