>I mean come on, your only course of reaction is to
>say the judges and Burnett screwed him over?

All we know -- and we don't know this from the show, but from the web site -- is that the result was a split decision, meaning that one judge scored the fight for Ishe while the two others scored it for Sergio. Fighters get screwed by judges' decisions all the time, of course -- I pointed out previously that in one of Jimmy Lange's fights, one judge awarded him nine of ten rounds, while another judge awarded his opponent nine of ten rounds -- but at least in those cases you get to see the whole fight and then judge for yourself.

In this fight, even in the so-called "complete version" on the Web, we saw about 60 seconds of four of the rounds and about 30 seconds of round 4 -- even though each round is about 3 minutes long.

>Face it, Sergio beat him, it was obvious by the
>fight we all saw on Sunday.

It wasn't obvious to one of the judges scoring the fight. And you must be a supergenius if you can tell how the whole fight went from seeing less than five minutes out of the fifteen minutes of action. My hat is off to you.

>And VFW, if there was this big controversy with Ishe why not show
>it? Reality TV thrives on controversy.

Apparently, you also know more about reality TV than Mark Burnett. On the Web clip, the ring announcer says "the winner by split decision ... Sergio Mora." On episode 9, we hear the ring announcer say, "the winner ... Sergio Mora." On episode 10, we hear the ring announcer say, "the winner by decision ... Sergio Mora."

Why deliberately edit out the words "by split decision" in episode 9 and the word "split" in episode 10 if, as you say, reality TV thrives on controversy? You should inform Burnett that he has a thing or two to learn about reality TV.

As for me, I found Burnett's edit of the "Gutless Four" (Anthony, Jesse, Joey and Peter) to be problematic, but I'm not enough of an expert to second-guess the guy who has been the most successful producer of reality TV in the US. I'm glad to know that someone else is.

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