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He has finally spoken.

Sanchez was concerned when he learned Byrd was among the pool of judges the Nevada State Athletic Commission was considering assigning to the Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin fight. Golovkin’s trainer grew even more worried when the NSAC approved her assignment Monday.

“We had the kind of fight that I thought we were gonna have,” Sanchez said during the post-fight press conference. “I thought that one of the judges had her card filled out before she came to the fight. But that’s unfortunate, that in Vegas they seem to go to different schools to learn how to judge a fight. But if Canelo wants a rematch, I’m sure that they’ll put it together and we’ll have another great one.”

Sanchez suggested that Byrd needs more training before she should be allowed to judge another fight.

“Like I said, I thought she had her card filled out before she got here,” Sanchez said. “But I voiced the question prior to the fight, when they were selecting the judges, that I thought that she was so up and down with her scoring. One fight she looks good, and then three, four fights she does terrible. I just think she needs to be reviewed. She can’t be that bad, or she can’t be that blind, I should say, that she can do that to so many fights.”

Byrd scored seven of the final eight rounds and each of the last five for Alvarez.

“I had some issues with her when they gave us the list of judges,” Sanchez said. “I said that she was so up and down with fights. She had one good one, and then she had three or four bad ones. I think she needs to be reviewed. I think she needs to go back to school and learn how to judge a fight.”

GGG could've scored 5 knockdowns in the last round and he still would've lost on her card

If Abel Sanchez was genuinely concerned about Adalaide Byrd's competence when he was initially informed of her being appointed to score the Canelo-GGG bout, then he almost certainly should have lodged an official complaint to the NSAC.

He may have cost his fighter a victory by refraining from officially airing his concerns before the bout took place. If his sentiments are genuine about this matter, then he has been negligent in his duties and Golovkin should be justified in being extremely disappointed in his trainer's actions... or lack thereof.

A lot of people pretend to be "wise", whilst clearly benefiting from possessing hindsight, so I suspect Sanchez's very recent comments about Adalaide Byrd's competence have been embellished severely.

Oh well the system probably helped GGG against Jacobs and it helped Canelo to get rematch against GGG for more $ the whole thing obviously isn't pure as the driven snow. What we did learn is that GGG is better than Canelo as of yestereday at 160.

Yep, it's obvious, and NSAC says they have "Full Confidence in her" still today. So...there ya go. Nothing's gonna change.

Enlightened-One wrote:If Abel Sanchez was genuinely concerned about Adalaide Byrd's competence when he was initially informed of her being appointed to score the Canelo-GGG bout, then he almost certainly should have lodged an official complaint to the NSAC.

He may have cost his fighter a victory by refraining from officially airing his concerns before the bout took place. If his sentiments are genuine about this matter, then he has been negligent in his duties and Golovkin should be justified in being extremely disappointed in his trainer's actions... or lack thereof.

A lot of people pretend to be "wise", whilst clearly benefiting from possessing hindsight, so I suspect Sanchez's very recent comments about Adalaide Byrd's competence have been embellished severely.

It's a sad state of affairs when you have to complain to get the judges etc you want, but you could be right

Kovalev wanted neutral judges and he got derided by some on here. A lot of people on here predicted Canelo would have one judge in his pocket. Unfortunately it looks blatantly true