Pascal vs King Kovalev: Do you agree with the stoppage?

[LoadedWraps]

Good stoppage... Pascal could have taken even more damage and could have been seriously hurt..

If the ref didn't stop it, that would have been fine, as pascal had comeback before, but I'm fine with the ref siding on the cautious side...

Come back from a beating like that before? When? Pascal was out on his feet.

[LoadedWraps]

Thought it was a tad early, Pascal has a history of looking absolutely done and then miraculously surviving. But I have little doubt Kovalev would have stopped him sooner or later.

I don't see how he makes it out of the round to be honest.

[hinode]

if he would stop the fight there he should've stopped it at the beginning of 4th round.
either way kovalev was going to knock him out but the stoppage came in a very awkward timing.
it looked as though pabon was confused and didn't know what he was doing.

[LoadedWraps]

if he would stop the fight there he should've stopped it at the beginning of 4th round.
either way kovalev was going to knock him out but the stoppage came in a very awkward timing.
it looked as though pabon was confused and didn't know what he was doing.

Pabon did a good job.

[LoadedWraps]

Bad stoppage, probably doesn't change things, but still

You would have let Kovalev wail on him?

[Weltschmerz]

Although it would have been nice to see Pascal flat on canvas, it was a good call by the ref... Especially knowing how brutal a puncher Kovalev is. The ref might just have saved the career of Pascal the other night, and it is quite distasteful for Pascal the way he behaved arrogant and claimed it was a BS stoppage... he should just have acknowledged his clear defeat as a man. Pascal is an arrogant idiot.

[jaded]

Just re-watched it. Something I forgot about was after the 4th round Kovalev's corner told him to take his time...that he had him just where he wanted him. It's not really that Pascal rallied in the 5th & 6th as much as Kovalev just letting Pascal empty what reserve he had left and get his confidence up...only to finish him off. You could see by the last 30 seconds of the 7th it was coming. He pushed him down leaning on him in the 7th and then he was ready to end it in the 8th. When Pascal got hit with the 1st of the last 2 punches he made little effort to avoid it and took it on the chin...a right hook. When Kovalev got in the 2nd it was more than enough of what Luis Pabon needed to see. Really he was saved by the bell in the 4th. Had there been say 20 seconds more left in the round it was going to end. Pascal really never qualified.

[LoadedWraps]

Just re-watched it. Something I forgot about was after the 4th round Kovalev's corner told him to take his time...that he had him just where he wanted him. It's not really that Pascal rallied in the 5th & 6th as much as Kovalev just letting Pascal empty what reserve he had left and get his confidence up...only to finish him off. You could see by the last 30 seconds of the 7th it was coming. He pushed him down leaning on him in the 7th and then he was ready to end it in the 8th. When Pascal got hit with the 1st of the last 2 punches he made little effort to avoid it and took it on the chin...a right hook. When Kovalev got in the 2nd it was more than enough of what Luis Pabon needed to see. Really he was saved by the bell in the 4th. Had there been say 20 seconds more left in the round it was going to end. Pascal really never qualified.

You make some valid points here.