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(AUG 19) The Tonya Harding Team is not backing down from a protest that they
presented to the Edmonton Boxing and Wrestling Commission (EBWC), after the
fight between Amy Johnson and Harding on June 26, 2004, that took place at
the Shaw Conference Centre, in Edmonton, Canada.
video footage
of some of the protest issues
WBAN spoke with Harding’s manager, Paul Brown, who said that their hearing
is set for September 1st, and that they are pursuing this to the end.
Brown had given WBAN a video tape of the
Johnson-Harding fight a couple of weeks ago, and even though, WBAN was
slightly skeptical before viewing the tape, AFTER viewing the tape, it was
clearly evident that the allegations made by Team Harding were certainly
valid.
Beside the fact that the
should have ended in a second round TKO for Harding the winner, it was truly
bewildering that the referee of the Harding-Johnson fight, did not honor the
fact that Johnson waved her hands to quit (similarly to how refs wave their
hands when they stop a fight), and taking her own mouth piece out of her
mouth wanting "no mas". To add insult to injury, it appears that the
ref did not seem to pay attention to the fact that Johnson was smearing and
(lacing) her gloves in Harding’s face.
There are other rules violations that are
being presented in this protest.
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