Originally posted by El Angel
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Stevens-Johnson sticks out as FOTY candidate for me
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Definitely not fight of the year. A good fight, but not enough back and forth action and damaging shots to justify a fight of the year award.
Personally, I though the stoppage was terrible. The fighter had his hands up and only got hit 2 clean shots. In the final round of a fight, you gotta give a fighter more chances than that to overcome a little adversity.
Kind of a shady decision by the ref, in my opinion.
That said, Johnson should have been more defensive in that final round and tying up. He had the fight won.
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I wouldn't mind seeing that fight again. Johnson did well enough to get a rematch, but he got caught with a bomb in the 10th. His corner told him to go out and stop Stevens, which was undoubtedly the worse thing to tell him. At best, Stevens won three rounds.
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