Renato Babalu: 'Wanderlei won his fight against Hunt!'

Written by: Team TATAME
2005-01-12

By: Gleidson Venga / Team TATAMERenato 'Babalu' Sobral just watched the bout between Wanderlei Silva and Mark Hunt, and this controversial bout didn?t have the correct decision made by the judges according to Babal?. The GBCT fighter still pointed a few problems with the rules:'I believe Wanderlei won that fight. He took a few knockdowns, but I still think he won, I don?t know. It depends a lot on the rules, I just don?t understand Pride rules, they are a bit wacky. Hunt was much heavier, so I think the decision was a bit partial.'The Brazilian also pointed to another controversial bout that happened in Japan, in the opening round of K-1 GP 2004 finals, between Ernesto Hoost and Remy Bonjasky. In that fight Remy came out the winner, but it was a contested decision:'I don?t think Remy Bonjasky beat Ernesto Hoost, that was really strange. Hoost was better in that fight and deserved to win.'About the fight of his good friend Rodrigo ?Minotauro? versus Emelianenko Fedor, ?Babalu? commented:'I think Fedor won fair and square, he came very well prepared, did a completely different game, but Minotauro has the conditions to beat him.'