Last year we were at the Gene Lewis tournament in Phoenix, they did the matching really shitty. The idea was good-natured, but it took FOREVER as they ran all the bracketing BY an audience of trainers. So one trainer is there from Wisconsin, he brought a fighter for the open division. I think his fighter had like 15 fights or so. He was informed that the only other fighter in that division had like 62 fights. He goes "No, that's too many. We won't fight." Almost the entire audience went "what!?" He got exasperated: "That's just too many fights." The response: "Bro your fighter is OPEN. Once you're open, you're open. And you came to a 3-day Invitational, what did you think was gonna happen? Your fighter is not a novice anymore, that's how it is. Open fighters don't get matched by number of bouts." He still refused to let his fighter fight. My thought was, that poor kid. They flew all the way from Wisconsin. If I was that kid's parent I'd be pissed.
My open 114lb'er, in his 17th bout, fought the Puerto Rican National Champion. Kid had 150 fights.