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MVP Is Contesting a Result the Right Way: Paperwork, Video, a Rematch Request and Zero Landscaping Companies

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MVP Is Contesting a Result the Right Way: Paperwork, Video, a Rematch Request and Zero Landscaping Companies

Lucas Bahdi gives a post-fight interview in the ring at Wintrust Arena in Chicago after his decision loss to Floyd Schofield, Oct. 10, 2026. This is what taking a loss looks like. Some people still need the visual aid. · Photo: Most Valuable Promotions / Harry Aaron

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I've waited six years for somebody to contest a result the right way. I didn't expect it to be a boxing promoter.

On Monday night, Most Valuable Promotions said it has "formally challenged" Lucas Bahdi's Oct. 10 loss to Floyd Schofield for the vacant WBA lightweight title. MVP says the video shows "multiple significant officiating errors." It says properly scored knockdowns would have made Bahdi champion by majority decision. And it says, "We have submitted our findings to the WBA and requested an immediate rematch." (Kimster has the straight news.)

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Read that last line again. It submitted findings to the governing body.

Not to a parking lot.

First, the official record. Schofield (20-0, 13 KOs) won a unanimous decision at Wintrust Arena. Judges Dave DeJonge (116-110), Alfredo Gallardo (119-108) and Steve Weisfeld (115-111) all had the 24-year-old from Austin, Texas, in front. Referee Benjamin Rodriguez counted two knockdowns. Schofield's counter left hook sent Bahdi's head through the middle ropes in the third, and Bahdi (20-1, 15 KOs) put Schofield down in the 11th. (Our recap is here.)

MVP's statement doesn't say which calls it means. The Ring's ringside report, though, describes two moments Rodriguez didn't count.

One came as the third round ended. Bahdi landed a right to the body and Schofield went down, though The Ring's Keith Idec wrote that Schofield didn't look hurt. The other came with under 20 seconds left in the ninth. Schofield's right knee appeared to touch the canvas while he held on after a Bahdi right hand. Rodriguez didn't see it.

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So there's actual tape to look at. That's already more than some people had in 2020, when Trump and his allies lost more than 60 lawsuits trying to overturn the election, per AP.

Now the napkin. I'm a columnist, not a judge, and judges decide how a knockdown round gets scored. But let's be generous to Bahdi. Give him both of those moments as knockdowns. Score them the most favorable way I can work out (a 10-9 Schofield ninth becomes a 10-8 Bahdi round, and the third tightens by a point or two), and that's roughly a five-point swing on each card, at most.

That flips Weisfeld's 115-111 to Bahdi by a point. DeJonge's 116-110 still has Schofield up by about one. Gallardo's 119-108 doesn't budge. That card is a wall.

By my napkin, Schofield still wins a split decision. MVP says its review gets Bahdi a majority decision. Maybe its tape shows something The Ring didn't see. That's what a review is for. Show the work and let the WBA check it.

In fairness to Team Schofield, and I'm a progressive, so fairness is basically my whole personality: if we're replaying tape, they get to bring some too. The 11th-round knockdown that did count came when Bahdi stepped on Schofield's right foot as Bahdi's right hand landed, per both The Ring and DAZN. Schofield got right up and didn't complain. He also went off as at least a 10-1 favorite, got hurt in the sixth, and found a way to win anyway. Nobody owes the winner an apology, and he doesn't owe anybody a rematch.

The concession speech. This is the part that gets me. On fight night, Bahdi said, "It was a great fight," and called Schofield "a warrior," per The Ring. He said he thought it was closer than two of the judges had it. That's it. Gracious, honest and a little bruised.

That's a concession speech. Now compare it with the early hours after Election Day 2020. With millions of votes still uncounted, Trump told a crowd at the White House, "Frankly, we did win this election." He hadn't.

Bahdi's nickname is 'Prince,' and he's the one who acted like he knows he isn't a king.

The order matters. You concede graciously, then you file with the proper authority, then you accept what it decides. In 2020, the order went like this. Declare victory. Send your lawyer to hold a press conference in the parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Northeast Philadelphia, next to an adult bookstore and across the street from a crematorium. Lose more than 60 lawsuits. A few years later, watch your lawyer get disbarred in New York, where the court found he'd made false statements about the election.

Team Bahdi has done the first two steps. I'm rooting for the third.

(Full disclosure: I've contested one result in my life. My HOA voted 7-2 against my Little Free Library. I accepted it. Then I wrote 4,000 words about it on Substack. That's democracy.)

Should Bahdi get the rematch? Yes. But he's earned it with the fight, not the protest. It was a firefight. Bahdi hurt Schofield badly in the sixth and put him on the floor in the 11th. If the WBA orders it back, I'd buy it.

The line at 135 is long, though. Gervonta Davis is the WBA's "champion in recess." Jose Valenzuela has been asking for Schofield (the Whisperer has the dance card). Before the fight, Schofield told The Ring that Abdullah Mason was the fight he wanted before moving up. And Bahdi hasn't exactly been quiet since (ask Shakur).

Follow the money. Golden Boy and MVP made a deal in August that headed off a WBA purse bid, and the minimum bid had been set at $150,000, per The Ring. Nobody published the actual purses. So nobody knows what a rematch would cost. As of Monday night, I couldn't find a public response from the WBA, Golden Boy or Schofield's camp.

My verdict: this is how you do it. You bring tape, you go to the sanctioning body and you ask to settle it in the ring. If the WBA says no, I expect MVP to accept that. It would leave a boxing promoter one concession ahead of the man who currently has the nuclear codes.

Was Bahdi robbed, or is this just promoter politics? Tell the community. I'll accept whatever you decide. While you wait for the WBA, Saturday's Smith-Puello and Navarrete-Foster cards are open in Fantasy Boxing. If you'd rather guess money than rounds, the Guess the Purse rounds are open too. And officiating fights on this site go back a ways. Here's my take on the Fundora-Hadribeaj ending.

'Kid Austin' has the belt, and 'Prince' has a protest on file. In boxing, the better appeal is usually a left hook.