Juanito Ibarra & Ranpage to Protest Match Outcome

[The Don]

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Posted by Bobby Spade on 07/08/2008 at 08:28 PM

CREDIT: SHERDOG.com

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.

Really I don't know what they plan to achieve with this, maybe look at the scroes and see what they need to work on? As much as I like Rampage, if I were a judge I would have given Forrest the win. Forrest obviously had a gameplan and stuck to it, work the leg and keep moving. Really the only things your could give Rampage in the fight would be when he dropped Forrest in the first round, th slam he didn't connect with and his flurrys.

That being said I wouldn't mind being able to go online or something and see how each round was scored, like how many points each fighter got for aggression and octagon control.

[Eat A Vegan]

I think it is rediculous for them to protest the decision, they should just live with the loss and work their way back to a title shot. I will have to watch the fight again and pay better attention to the scoring but if I recall, Forrest was much more aggressive and took control of the octagon. Rampage did an excellent job have pounding the shit out of forrest when he got close enough but they were not enough. Maybe if they were using pride rules rampage would have won?