IBF SUPERVISOR SAYS CONDES FIGHT WAS VERY CLOSE
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Tue, 17 Jul 2007
Lindsey Tucker, the IBF official who was supervisor at the minimum weight title fight between newly crowned champion Florante Condes and former champion Muhammad Rachman of Indonesia says it was a very close fight.
Tucker who admitted that there were "two errors on my part" made the corrections only when he noticed them on his return to the US. The errors in tabulation were noted on the the scorecards of Filipino judge Salven Lagumbay and Indonesian judge Muhammad Rois who scored the fight for their respective countrymen told Viva Sports/Manila Standard Today that he “thought it was a great fight and even though Condes scored two knockdowns he thought Rachman won most of the rounds.” However, Tucker made it clear that the mistakes were his and not the fault of the two judges.
In fact Tucker noted that if Thai judge Montol Suriyachand scored one of the last two rounds for Condes the fight would have ended in a draw and Rachman “would have retained his crown.”
Tucker said he “did not catch” the errors in the scorecards right away because he gave the official score sheet to the ring announcer to announce the scores. The iBF official said he was surrounded by the press and by the time he realized that the announcer “never gave me the score sheet back, everyone had left the (RCTI) studio” where the fight was held.
Tucker said he was able to get the score sheets back at 1:00 a.m. and left Jakarta early morning for the flight back to the US. He said “I did not look at the score sheet till I got home.” He said Rois’ score sheet “just didn’t sound right” and when he went over the score cards of the judges round by round discovered two mistakes. Rois’ score was actually 114-112 while Lagumbay’s score was not 114-112 as originally announced but in fact 115-111 for Condes. However, the IBF official noted “the error did not change the outcome of the fight.”
Click here to view a list of other articles written by Ronnie Nathanielsz.
Recent PhilBoxing.com In-House articles:
Crawford Not the First Lightweight to Distinguish Himself at Super Middleweight
By Teodoro Medina Reynoso, Tue, 16 Sep 2025SAMBO Pilipinas is Southern NSA of the Year 2025
By Lito delos Reyes, Tue, 16 Sep 2025Kingsley “The Black Lion” Ibeh To headline historic “Legacy Nights” Inaugural Pro Boxing event in El Salvador
Tue, 16 Sep 2025Smarts over power
By Joaquin Henson, Tue, 16 Sep 2025HALL OF FAME FLIES FLAGS AT HALF-STAFF FOR TWO-DIVISION CHAMPION RICKY HATTON
Tue, 16 Sep 2025Kazakhstan tops the medal table at the inaugural World Boxing Championships 2025 thanks to victory in the final bout of the competition
Tue, 16 Sep 2025THRILLA IN MANILA GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY 13: JOE FRAZIER’S HUMBLE BEGINNINGS AS AN AMATEUR FIGHTER
By Maloney L. Samaco, Mon, 15 Sep 2025A New King, A New Challenger: Turki Alalshikh Proposes Crawford-Benavidez While Canelo Alvarez Faces Defeat with Humility
By Dong Secuya, Mon, 15 Sep 2025Highly Questionable Title Eliminator
By Teodoro Medina Reynoso, Mon, 15 Sep 2025Yoseline Perez Earns Silver Medal at Inaugural World Boxing Championships
Mon, 15 Sep 202521-year-old Filipino wins at Germany rapid chess tournament
By Marlon Bernardino, Mon, 15 Sep 2025Nagoya Nightmare: Naoya Inoue Notches One-Sided Decision over Murodjon Akhmadaliev
Mon, 15 Sep 2025Inoue’s Philippine Connection: Which Pinoy Super Bantamweight Could Challenge “The Monster?”
By Carlos Costa, Mon, 15 Sep 2025Yoseline Perez Advances to the Finals at the World Boxing Championships Perez Set to Face Chinese Taipei’s Hsiao-Wen Huang for 54-Kilogram World Title
Mon, 15 Sep 2025Canelo Gets Outboxed, Loses Undisputed Title to Crawford
By Carlos Costa, Sun, 14 Sep 2025