Bates took charge of the MF Pro main event at London\u2019s O2 Arena but was heavily criticized for some of his actions during the 12 rounds.<\/p>\n
Wilder claimed he was hit in the back of the head by Chisora \u201c10-12 times\u201d and insisted that Bates, a highly experienced official from Surrey, England, should be struck off. <\/p>\n
\u201cI just hope and pray the boxing commissions, the people, do something about these things,\u201d Wilder said in reference to Bates during his post-fight press conference. \u201cThat referee shouldn\u2019t be allowed to ref again.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fight took place under the auspices of the British Boxing Board of Control and now their general secretary, Robert Smith, has told the Ring they were satisfied with Bates\u2019 performance.<\/p>\n
A board meeting is scheduled for Wednesday when all performances will be reviewed as normal but Smith insists that they will take no action against Bates, who they believe handled a difficult fight competently.<\/p>\n
Aside from Chisora\u2019s alleged rabbit punches, one of the main moments of contention took place in the very first round when that pair were unable to be separated while they lay on the ropes punching each other.<\/p>\n
At that point, a member of Chisora\u2019s corner team, Alexis Demetriades, entered the ring which, by the letter of the law, should have resulted in an immediate disqualification for Chisora.<\/p>\n
However Smith was satisfied that Bates used his discretion to allow the fight to continue after reminding Demetriades of his conduct. He also said a second similar breach would have definitely resulted in disqualification for the home favourite.<\/p>\n
Wilder\u2019s manager Shelly Finkel outlined that moment as one of five major errors made by Bates during the fight, which eventually ended in a split decision victory for the Bronze Bomber.<\/p>\n
Finkel said: \u201cOne, if your corner enters the ring, it\u2019s an automatic disqualification. Number two, if you\u2019re knocked out of the ring you have 20 seconds to get in but you\u2019re not allowed to be helped by your corner. Number three, if you get hit and you\u2019re falling but you grab the rope, it\u2019s an automatic eight-count. Number four, if you get hit after the bell, it\u2019s the ref\u2019s discretion to take a point off. Number five, when Derek stepped back and touched his eye, that\u2019s not allowed. You either stop the fight or you don\u2019t interfere. These are the rules of the game. I\u2019m glad my guy won because I thought he was going to get robbed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Again, Smith told The Ring that the Board were satisfied with Bates\u2019 overall performance and confirmed that there will be no sanctions for their official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bates took charge of the MF Pro main event at London\u2019s O2 Arena but was heavily criticized for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[59273,2560,151516,6102,50,101,6826,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-516683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-object-object","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-articles","tag-boxing-news","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-the-ring","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}