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(OCT 13) PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (October 13, 2004) – Jimmy Burchfield’s
Classic Entertainment & Sports, Inc., on behalf of featherweight Missy
“The Fury” Fiorentino, has officially petitioned the Women’s
International Boxing Association to declare the September 18 title fight
between challenger Fiorentino and champion Emiko Raiko a “no contest”
and mandate a rematch.
Raiko (12-11, 5 KOs) was awarded a unanimous 10-round decision in her title
fight against Fiorentino in Kyoto. In its written petition CES listed
multiple WIBA rule violations: Raiko drank a pink substance between
rounds (only water is allowed), scorecards were not used (nor was
the actual scoring announced), neither fighter took a urinalysis test
after the match. CES also accused Raiko of repeated intentional head
butts and the WIBA official of not attending the rules meeting,
not understanding Japanese, and sitting where he could not view what was
happening in the ring.
The deck was stacked against Fiorentino from the very start. After flying
from Boston to Chicago and then 13 hours to Japan, she found out that
arrangements had not been made for her to train in a gym. The morning of the
fight Team Fiorentino had to take an eight-hour bus ride from the hotel to
the Kyoto venue and was forced to report at 11 am for her fight that didn’t
start until 5 pm.
“The whole trip was terrible,” she explained. “I had to workout three days
in a small park. We had to take an eight-hour bus ride (to Kyoto) the
morning of the fight and after that sit there (fight venue) six hours before
my fight.”
Through the first four rounds, reportedly, on numerous occasions Raiko
intentionally head-butted Missy (9-1, 6 KOs), who suffered a cut above her
eye in the second round. The referee gave Raiko many warnings, but never
penalized her a single point.
“In the third round I hit her with a left to the body and she fell right
down,” Missy noted. “The ref ruled it a slip. I beat her up the whole fight
except for the last two rounds when my left eye was closed shut and the
other eye was swollen. After the fight announcements were in Japanese and
she won. I wanted to read the scorecards and when I asked, the WIBA
representative said there were no scorecards. I still haven’t found out what
the scoring was. How could there be scoring without scorecards? We saw her (Raiko)
drinking an energy drink, not water, between rounds. These are WIBA rules
that were broken. I want a rematch…..but not over there (Japan).”
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