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Dear Fight Fans,

It was very disappointing for me to lose the fight against a good young fighter like Abner Mares. Congratulations to Abner, he is a tough kid who fought a great fight. Even after winning seven world titles I have learned something valuable and that is not to leave the decision in the hands of judges. The only negative thing I have to say about this fight is that we should be talking about what a great war Abner and I had, and not talking about the way the fight was over-refereed. I have never had a point taken off me in all my fights and I am sure Abner hasn’t ever had a point taken from him. Let us fight. We go into the ring and we fight for our lives. We should have been allowed to fight our natural fights. Instead both of us were always being told to do this and that. I think the referee started to confuse himself in addition to confusing us.