(MAR 27) WBAN has received
a link to the full video of the fight between Duda Yankovich vs.
Enis Pachecho, that took place on March 16, 2012 at the Coliseo
Elias Chewing in Barranquilla, Columbia. The two were
fighting for the WBO Lightweight title. One of our WBAN
researchers who help us with upcoming events and boxing results
wrote the following and who located the video said the
following:
"Today I watched the fight between Yankovich and Pachecho, and
in my opinion, someone left a skunk in the area in Columbia
because the home town decision stunk. Pacheco may have thrown
more punches but Yankovich landed more and she landed most of
the power punches. Yankovich constantly drove Pacheco to the
ropes with heavy bombs, hurting her in the fourth and knocking
out her mouthpiece in the fifth. Pacheco then turned octopus in
the second half of the fight grabbing and tying up Yankovich
with a referee that wouldn't break them up. It may have not been
the worst hometown decision I ever saw but it is sad to watch a
title is at stake."
Apparently, Team Yankovich felt the same way for various reasons
and has publicly petitioned this particular fight to be made a
"No Contest." Eddie Montalvo of Team Yankovich sent
a petition for review to the
International Arbitrator's Commission to intervene and conduct
an investigation of the fight, and to the WBO to assign an
impartial independent panel of International Arbitrators to
review fight video in hopes that upon its finding they would
rule the Yankovich-Pacheco bout a "no contest."
Montalvo talks
about his view of what happened in the fight [excerpt from
petition we received from Montalvo]:
"Although it
may have appeared Yankovich went down in the initial round by a
left hook thrown by Pacheco, the blow wasn't effective as it
went off Yankovich's right glove as Yankovich's right leg
slipped from under her causing her to hit one knee and glove and
bounce right back up for the attack. From that moment on
Yankovich went on the attack with the better shots of the two
all the while Pacheco grab at every opportunity sneaking in a
punch here and there during clutches she initiated. The referee
failed to observe that but the video will not lie. He also
failed to admonish and/or penalize Pacheco for her continuous
holding and grabbing."
"By the fifth round this writer (Eddie Montalvo, also
Yankovich's manager) calls referee Jose Hiram Rivera over to him
between rounds and asks him to admonish Pacheco for all the
holding she was doing throughout rounds 1 and 5. He ignored my
request and allowed Pacheco to continue to grab and hold the
entire bout. In any other international bout be it a world title
or not, any referee would have not only admonished Pacheco they
would have deducted a couple of points for the consecutive
grabbing and hitting throughout 9 consecutive rounds. The fight
video will demonstrate the negligence on Mr. Rivera's part in
failing to admonish and penalized Pacheco."
"Yankovich fought an intelligent aggressive fight demonstrating
her experience but Pacheco's grabbing and holding complicated
Yankovich's full attack. Clearly Yankovich was the dominant of
the two delivering effective blows and the more solid punches. A
dedicated veteran fighter such as Ms. Duda Yankovich DID NOT
deserve to be ridiculed..."
Montalvo stated in
the [[excerpt] petition: "The Yankovich Camp publicly
submits this Petition as we are confident it will be ruled a NO
CONTEST upon review." Montalvo stated in the petition that he
does not want Mr. Juan Carlos Devia to promote the rematch and
wants him ban for various reasons listed in his petition.
WBAN has posted the full fight for boxing fans to judge for
themselves. We will update the WBAN readers as to what
happens with the petition that was filed by Montalvo of Team
Yankovich.
