Premature Price stoppage!

The ref was asking price to come towards him after the count of 8 but price was still wobbling so the ref stopped the fight. I think the ref did the right thing.

I think it was a lose-lose situation for the referee. If he allowed the fight to go on and Price got nailed with another shot, there would have been a lot of people saying he should have stopped it. It was a borderline case. It would have been acceptable for him to allow him to go on, but it was also an acceptable stoppage.

Nah that was a GREAT stoppage. No need to take unnecessary risk just because Price is at home, he Was on shaky legs and both his hands were by his side and am sure the ref saw his eyes and knew he wasn't there.

After the death recently of that asian boxer i said i will never question a referee stoppage again. But after this stoppage, i cant help feeling it was premature. Only it seems that in a way the rules of boxing are changing, and its almost as if as soon as you take a good shot and clearly it visibibly effects you in some way then you can be stopped. It was early in the fight so Price had a good chance to recover he wasnt exhausted or anything. We dont learn if Price has recuperative abilities now, or how is a boxer to learn what to do when hurt like hold and stuff.? But Prices chin must be real bad, because over the course of a fight any heavyweight will be taking those shots at some point in the fight. There is nothing price will be able to do in the future about taking punches he didnt see, it happens. And even in slow motion it seemed like a phantom punch.

Price can't take a punch and he was lucky the fight was stopped because the next punch TT wud have landed wud have had Price out cold

I just watched it, the stoppage looked ok to me. At least the UK referee didn't wave it off as soon as Price went down like they often do.

Whaddya think then? Was it a bit premature? Should the ref have given Price the opportunity to try and get past it? His mental faculties were all there and he was obviously reasonably clear headed, it wasn't really that type of KO, but, his legs were still very wobbly and he was unsteady. Did the ref do him a disservice by stopping it that quick, or would Price's legs have just given up the ghost and would he have been knocked down again or out? I tell ya what though....I think, more than anything, even more than Price's ****e chin, it was his lack of real experience leading up to that fight that lost it for him. He needed some hard rounds and a couple of longer fights against some still young guys, but who were still probably not skilled enough to really hurt or beat him. He got dropped, and while it was a good shot and he was clearly hurt, it was a a shot that didn't put him out mentally. It was more of a temple shot with throws out your equilibrium, which can often be regained pretty quick, especially if you're young and have some good recuperative powers. Unfortunately, we'll never know. It was really just his legs and body that spazzed out, and he regained them reasonably quick after getting back up. If he had just stayed down and taken the full 8 or 9 count, instead of jumping back up while his brain was still sending spazzoid signals to his legs, it's very possible he might have gotten through the rest of the round or at least given himself a second chance to get back into it. As it was, he jumped up so quick that his legs were still doing a bit of a Zab and the ref stopped it because of it. If he'd had the presence of mind and the experience he could have chilled out for a near 10 count and regained much of his legs. At the very least, the ref wouldn't have stopped it and it's remotely possible that he could have gotten back into it. He might also have jumped up just to get KTFO again. :dunno: And IF he hadn't been splatted by a cuffing slap then all the above would be irrelevant. Know what your saying, way too many ifs buts and maybes in there though. I'm pretty sure that I, at my current weight of 80kg, wouldn't have been too badly hurt by that. Price ceased to function in anyway shape or form. His career could well have taken a very very serious dent had he then took a couple of actual flush shots without being able to defend himself and his already pitiful punch resistance weakened further still Good stoppage. Only decision that could be made. Price knew it.

It was a good call by the referee, some of you guys would get a fighter killed. He was in the ring with another heavyweight, I don't think individuals realise how hard they hit, you often don't see how devastating their power is because their opponent is prepared for the punch, he ( Price) was out of it, any punch that landed would go right through him.

I haven't seen the entire fight, but I think fighters should be given more chances to continue than what we get many times. These guys know what they're in for, unfortunately people are sometimes overly safety conscious. Jmo. I agree that fighters should be given that chance. The ref wasn't completely wrong for stopping it but referees should count eight and then determine if the fighter is capable. The Referee here gave up before he reached eight. However I bet if it were Thompson that was knocked down there would have been a good chance the fight would have been stopped even sooner.

I haven't seen the entire fight, but I think fighters should be given more chances to continue than what we get many times. These guys know what they're in for, unfortunately people are sometimes overly safety conscious. Jmo.

Nah, it was a good stoppage, his legs were completely gone. Now I agree that he should've stayed down until the 7 or 8 count, and then get up and maybe move around a little bit before getting his gloves up ... He got knocked down, got up pretty quickly and that way it's almost impossible to recover balance.

I don't think Thompson was close to beating him to death but that is just me, however there was no way Price was making it out of that round, so while the ref could have let it go for a bit longer it was completely fair as the fight was essentially over anyway.

My brother's comment was "he looks like Trevor Berbeck when Tyson hit him !!! " ...Priceless and I am a big David Price fan. I think he can be a very good HW, even champ,but this pawing ****acki has to go.Throw the jab and use your reach David. He has to learn to jab. All the great HW fighters with decent/average chins could jab.Holmes,Lewis, and Vlad come to mind. :boxing:

With the recent death of the Indonesian boxer, in where the ref did noting wrong in, actually stopped the fight at the right moment, let's praise the refs for once. Tony Weeks stopping the Holt fight, and that ref stopping the Price fight. Let's praise referees for once, ref's are almost always accused when something goes wrong in a fight, in the end they mean no harm, they just try to protect the fighters. And those who let the action go on are bashed anyway.

Was he break dancing? Seriously he made it to his feet so there could be some debate but he was doing the rubberman thing so the stoppage was warranted IMO. :lol1: Yeah, the thread title was just to get the morons riled. The stoppage was entirely warranted. I don't for a second think it was premature. He was all over the place. However, I do wonder what he could have done if the ref had let it go on (I would have liked to see if he might have been able to get through it, as any future top fighter should be able to), or more importantly, if he had stayed down and given himself a bit of a chance to recuperate and maybe get his legs back under him. Do I remember Price saying something about not even bothering to go on with boxing if he lost this fight? Was that just my imagination or did he talk about this being a fight that would test him, and if he did lose that there would be no point in going on?

Was he break dancing? Seriously he made it to his feet so there could be some debate but he was doing the rubberman thing so the stoppage was warranted IMO.

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If it went on Tony would've piled it on his jelly legs

His legs were totally gone, it's a fair stoppage.

He was out on his feet, one more shot like that and Tony woulda killed him