Juanito Plans To Protest Jackson/Griffin Outcome to NSAC

Twist of lEMOn · 07-07-2008, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Sherdog

Although Quinton Jackson (Pictures) lost his UFC light heavyweight title Saturday to Forrest Griffin (Pictures) in a grueling 25-minute bout, his camp is ready to keep fighting.

Jackson's coach, Juanito Ibarra, plans to protest the unanimous decision with the Nevada State Athletic Commission.

"We got robbed," Ibarra told Sherdog.com Sunday afternoon. "We won the majority of the fight."

Judges Adalaide Byrd and Nelson Hamilton scored the bout 48-46 for Griffin, while Roy Silbert turned in a 49-46 tally for Griffin.

It's extremely unlikely that a protest would change the outcome of the fight. Ibarra isn't hopeful in that regard, but less than 24 hours after his fighter had lost in the UFC for the first time, the coach seemed determined to learn exactly how the fight was scored.

He was baffled that Byrd and Silbert gave Griffin a 10-9 advantage in the first round, during which Jackson dropped the challenger. In Ibarra's view, the knockdown warranted a 10-8 round in Jackson's favor. He believes Jackson won the third and fourth rounds on 10-9 scores, though he said Griffin deserved a 10-8 second round and a 10-9 fifth. That comes out to a 47-46 win for Jackson.

"You have to beat the champion," Ibarra asserted more than once.

Randy Couture (Pictures), a coach and training partner of Griffin, gave a slight edge to the new champion.

"I thought that it was a very, very close fight," Couture said. "I thought that it was three rounds to two [for Griffin]. I thought that Quinton did enough to win two of the rounds clearly. I thought they may have been able to give Quinton a 10-8 round in the first round with the knockdown and then the second round you could have given Forrest a 10-8 round.

"And it could have went the other way. If one or two rounds went the other way, it could have been three rounds to two for Quinton. It was that close."

I think its fair to say, even if Griffin won the fight in any fashion, Roy Silbert and Byrd need to be looked at. There judging, especially Silberts was terrible.

Dmac · 07-07-2008, 10:19 AM

Well yeah, I know Griffin won but not by the points the judges had down.

GJAM · 07-07-2008, 10:30 AM

I think if anything it was a draw, I still don't see anyway that Forrest won, In my opinion Rampage barely won, I could understand a draw, but a unam decision to forrest is deffinitely bullshit

Dmac · 07-07-2008, 10:31 AM

A unan decision is bull but Forest won it.

Twist of lEMOn · 07-07-2008, 10:45 AM

Well, I think everybody is split on this on every site, its just something everybody (including myself) has to live with. Forrest won bullshit or not, I think what needs to addressed here is the obvious scoring problems that the UFC is having more and more of now and days.

What I found interesting was Juanito and Randy agreeing ona 10-8 first round for Rampage