Bob Arum plans to file a protest with the Nevada State Athletic Commission over perceived improprieties in the selection of judges for the Oscar De La Hoya-Shane Mosley super welterweight title fight, the Los Angeles Times reported in Tuesday's editions.

Arum, the promoter for De La Hoya, maintains that judges Stanley Christodoulou (representing the WBA) and Anek Hongthongkam (WBC) were selected by the Nevada commission to referee the fighters' rematch without the approval of their respective sanctioning organizations, according to the report.

The protest reportedly will be filed within a week.

WBA championship committee chairman Renzo Bagnariol told the paper by telephone that he had sent a letter of protest, dated Aug. 27, to Nevada commission executive director Marc Ratner, denouncing Christodoulou's selection despite his absence from a list of potential referees submitted by the WBA.

"In the letter," Bagnariol told the paper, "I said we were not taking responsibility for any controversy or problem with the fight because we didn't have a chance to share in the approval. I asked the commission to reconsider."

Bagnariol told the paper he had submitted a list of six officials -- two each from South America, Europe and Japan.

"We sent that list to the commission and we never heard from them. They didn't get back to us [until informing the WBA that Christodoulou had been picked]," Bagnariol said. "As far as I was concerned, we had a problem. We don't like them going over us like that even though [Christodoulou] is one of the best officials we have."

Speaking from Mexico City, WBC president Jose Sulaiman told the paper that Hongthongkam was on a list submitted by his organization, but he refused further comment until after a review of the controversy by his body's board of governors.

De La Hoya lost both his WBC and WBA titles on a unanimous decision. Christodoulou, Hongthongkam and a third judge, Duane Ford of Las Vegas, all scored the fight 115-113 for Mosley.

According to the paper, the Nevada commission is not legally obligated to use the recommendations of the sanctioning bodies, but Arum, who as a promoter had the right of approval of the judges, said he was not informed that the judges selected were not recommended.

"This has never, ever, ever happened before," said Arum.

Ratner, who has held his current post for 11 years and been with the Nevada commission for 20 years, feels his organization acted within its rights and defended the selections.

"The sanctioning bodies submit a list, but the final selection is always ours," he said. "We take their input, but we don't have to get their approval.

"On certain fights, I will recommend the use of only Nevada officials. For a fight like this, I decided to bring in two international judges. The judges we brought in had impeccable credentials."

Ratner told the paper he didn't feel anybody on the list submitted by the WBA was qualified.

"They had not done fights of this magnitude," he said. "I wasn't going to bring in an unknown. I wouldn't have been doing my duty."

Christodoulou was a judge for the first heavyweight title fight between Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield in 1999, which ended in a controversial draw. Christodoulou was the only judge to have Lewis winning the fight -- a decision that was supported by most observers.