Misfits Boxing is taking three results from its latest card back to the deliberation room. Promoter Mams Taylor said on X that three fight outcomes from Saturday night are “officially under review using the jury system,” a new process meant to re-examine disputed scorecards and, if the review goes the other way, overturn the official decision.
Taylor framed it as something he had worked out with the sanctioning body. “Spoke to the commission at length,” he wrote. Bloody Elbow, which first reported the announcement, noted that this is presumably the World Combat Sports Federation, the little-known body that has overseen Misfits events since the promotion split from the Professional Boxing Association in 2024. MiddleEasy also reported Taylor’s comments.
Taylor did not stop at the review. “Any judge with a crazy scorecard should be suspended in my opinion but that’s an ongoing conversation,” he added. He acknowledged that a fighter who wins on review loses the in-ring celebration, then made his priority plain: “Most importantly, whoever earned a win should be awarded that on their record.”
The card gave him plenty of material. The main event and co-main event both ended in split draws, there were several split decision wins further down, and Bloody Elbow singled out one women’s bout as especially contentious. In the headliner, Joey Essex and Dapper Laughs each believed he had done enough to get his hand raised, and neither did. Taylor has not publicly said which three fights are under review, so don’t assume the main event is one of them until he does.
None of this is new territory for Taylor. He has talked for years about reforming how fights get scored, and the push picked up after his client KSI lost a unanimous decision to Tommy Fury in 2023. Until now, nothing concrete came of it. Taylor also hasn’t explained how the jury system works: who sits on it, how many members it has, what standard they apply or when they’ll rule. Those are the details that matter most.
My take: I’m all for fixing bad cards, and a split draw in your two biggest fights is a fair reason to look again. But a review is only as credible as its process. If the jury gets announced, its members get named and its reasoning gets published round by round, Misfits could actually produce something other promotions would study. If it’s a closed room that reliably sides with whoever the promoter thinks won, that’s a second set of judges with less accountability than the first. And Taylor’s line about suspending judges for “crazy” scorecards needs a definition before anyone signs off on it. A 96-94 card the other way in a close fight is a disagreement, and judges who are afraid of being suspended for one will start scoring for safety. The first ruling will tell us which version we’re getting.
