NSAC Head: We're Moving Forward With Adalaide Byrd

[Ilya Muromets]

...the whole Nevada State Athletic Commission and their officiating strategy is a joke...Adalaide Byrd is just the product..

The Nevada State Athletic Commission aka the Mafia.

Since her criminal complicity in fixing the GGG-Alvarez fight in Las Vegas in Sep 2017 Byrd has refereed ten more pro fights, 8 of them in Nevada, two in Japan.

[Ilya Muromets]

Boxing is so corrupt they don't even bother to try to hide it. Right in your face. They don't care. Especially in organized crime's home town, Sin City, as they proudly call it, built by OC in the Mojave Desert for the sole purpose of fleecing the suckers.

[siablo14]

I don't understand guys.

The woman has been judging fights for more than 20 years. I didn't hear squat about her except a little bit after the Calzaghe-Hopkins fight.

More than 400 fights judged and suddenly she's the devil incarnate and the poster child for boxing corruption.

Honestly, I didn't wince for a second when I heard her scorecard. I gave it to Canelo 8-4, so her somewhat wider score didn't ring any alarms.

She gets a bad rap, primarily I suppose from Golovkin fans and those who bet on the Khazaki fighter.

You're up in arms but she resumed judging fights back in October. Nobody said a word then.

She certainly wasn't brought back just for the rematch. They quickly brought her back because she's a veteran established judge in Nevada.

I always suspect that part of the sour grapes regarding Byrd is that she's a female in a primarily male dominated sport.

It was the same with CJ Ross in Pacquiao-Bradley 1 and Eugenia Williams in the first Holyfield-Lewis bout.

Both were lambasted for weeks in the media for their scorecards. With male judges, it's quickly forgive and forget.

If one of the male judges had turned in the 118-110 card, little controversy would have developed.

But because it was Byrd, a gutteral reaction surfaced.

"She's a woman. She doesn't know what the hell she's doing. Or worse, she was bought off."

Wouldn't someone buy off 2, not 1, judge if you wanted a decision to go a certain way?

Hopefully the rematch will avoid all this foolish conspiracy/incompetence accusations, and we'll have an old fashioned knockout.

Of course, if that occurs, some will opine that one of the fighters took a dive.

You can't win in boxing.

It's not sexism. It's the bad scorecards but you can't seem to understand because your scorecard was crappy as well.

[siablo14]

She hasn't had one bad day. She has had one bad career.

They should just say how it is:

If they fire her she will spill all the info about all the other fixed fights that NSAC is fully involved with.

yep, as the say "birds of a feather stick together"..

Corruption tends to have that effect.
What else could they do to silence her?
Do they have enough hush money? Would she even take it? All pointless conjecture.

Where's the FBI when you need them? Trouble is, with all this $$$$$$$$ splashing about no one will speak up.

It would take just one whistleblower then it'd be like Weinstein all over again.

The sport would be brought into disrepute too.

[siablo14]

I have no problem about Adalaide Byrd returning to work as a judge, as long as she undergoes a probationary period of about twelve months where she only officiates domestic-level contests.

Perhaps, once she’s proven herself as being competent in her role, then she should be considered for bigger bouts.

I do know that promoters are able to lodge a complaint to the NSAC and request that she doesn’t work on their fight cards, so I doubt that she’ll be able to judge any marquee bouts from now on.

I don’t believe that anyone should automatically assume that Adalaide Byrd is “corrupt” without possessing any evidence whatsoever to justify such an accusation. It’s far more likely that she’s either incompetent or suffered several horrendous days at the office.

The evidence is clearly in the scorecard. Nobody who has even the most basic knowledge of boxing could score the Golovkin Alvarez fight the way she did. She is either corrupt or inept take your choice.

To my mind she should never again be let anywhere near a boxing event in any official capacity. That is nothing to do with her gender either. If she were both honest and competent the fact she's a woman is of no consequence to me whatsoever.

And to think she was standing for all the rounds. So she had a better view.

[Badhusker]

Just don't let her judge any top 10 fights. That will help.

[Tomasino]

There's having a bad day and there's Adelaide Bird ffs! She shouldn't be allowed near the sport again unless it's as a spectator! She's fuckin woeful!

She’s tough though mate. Poor girl got raked over the coals. She should be allowed to collect some more bribes for her retirement, can’t have her working a real job.

[Stuarty]

There's having a bad day and there's Adelaide Bird ffs! She shouldn't be allowed near the sport again unless it's as a spectator! She's fuckin woeful!

She’s tough though mate. Poor girl got raked over the coals. She should be allowed to collect some more bribes for her retirement, can’t have her working a real job.

Think she's been giving the NSAC Head!

[Ruthless-RKO]

https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2018/2/16/1 ... clnk&gl=uk

Hopefully she doesn't f*ck up.