Super Six Judge Issue

Posted by Joe Roche on 11.18.2009

Wilfried Sauerland has a problem with the Judge's for Saturday night.

Today during the final press conference before Saturday's WBA super middleweight showdown between Mikkel Kessler and Andre Ward (which is also a part of Showtime's Super Six World Boxing Classic) Kessler's promoter Wilfried Sauerland had some interesting things to say about the judge's for Saturday night's fight.

"One thing I want to point out. We will not accept Dan´s choice of judges. He has done a great job to get his fighter three fights at home, but now he has appointed three judges from California. Needless to say, we will not accept his friends and colleagues judging this fight, so he better starts moving because it takes a while to bring in new judges.

"The WBA has written a strong letter to the Californian commission that the choice of judges is unacceptable but the Californian commission has been somewhat hard to reach. The WBA has been trying to contact them, sending faxes and everything. If this issue is not sorted, we can have a Super Six fight, but Mikkel´s world title will not be on the line."

Obviously Dan Goossen would not let this comment slide and had a rebuttal of sorts: "Our company (Goossen Tutor Promotions) has nothing to do with picking officials. Whoever the WBA and the commission appoint is what we go with...The only man I want to see walking out of the ring is the real champion without any sort of interference."