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WBO JUDGES' SEMINAR A BIG SUCCESS PhilBoxing.com Thu, 29 Oct 2015  ORLANDO, FLORIDA -- This morning saw the third day of the 28th Annual Convention WBO Convention holding the Judges' Seminar early at the Palm Ballroom 3 of the Hilton Orlando Buenavista Lake Hotel here. Among the participants who arrived very early for the session were Martino Redona and Arcade Terrado both of the PBC, as well as Salven Lagumbay (Asia Pacific/PBC) and lady judge Waleska Roldan of New York. Veteran referee Geno Rodriguez, who for many years served as chairman of officials, took to the microphone first whereby he announced that the WBO has recently appointed him to a new position as championship committee vice-chairman, and that he is now turning over the responsibilities to new chairman of officials Michael Pernick. Pernick then greeted all the officials present in the seminar, but made a quick introduction and gave the floor to Frank Gentile of the Florida Boxing Commission. Shortly thereafter, Pernick introduced the two main resource speakers of the seminar, whom he described as the "cream of the cream,"--Levi Martinez and Glen Feldman. Martinez, who was at the same time awarded with the tiara as "the uncrowned king of boxing judges," then went on to give an incisive, well-received lecture on judging fights which lasted for almost two hours. Among the most important points discussed by Martinez are the following: being at the fight venue even before the first bout, refrain from drinking alcohol 24 hours before a fight, keep a low profile, don't ever complain about other officials, never ask for ticket from promoters, give utmost concentration on the fight at hand, among others. Participants were then divided into three groups based on the number of world title bouts officiated. Both Martinez and Feldman, with the assistance of Pernick, then showed footages of previous fights for the attendees to score, with three participants asked to sit in front to score the bouts. Two Philippine judges--Salven Lagumbay and Edward Ligas--as well as a British judge were first to score a round and made to explain their scores in front of the officials. Some of the bouts being put under study were the following: Provodnikov vs Algieri, Quilin vs Lee, Lara vs Alvarez, Salido vs Martinez, Magdaleno vs Gonzalez, among others. Over all, it was a great learning experience for all the judges who flew in from different parts of the world. The proceedings would then continue with the Referees's Seminar in the afternoon. Top photo: Levi Martinez receives his award for being the "uncrowned king of boxing judges". img src="http://philboxing.com/news/pix/martinez.byrd.caiz.jr.500w.jpg"> L-R: Levi Martinez, Robert Byrd and Raul Caiz, Jr. demonstrate a ring action during the WBO judges' seminar held at the Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista Hotel in Orland, Florida.  |
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