Should GGG Have Been Disqualified for Hitting Lemieux When He Was Down?

Only if you want to see Lemieux get Montell Griffin'd in the rematch. That'd be entertaining, not sure how plausible though.

Only if you want to see Lemieux get Montell Griffin'd in the rematch.

NO! It was no need for a guy in full control of the fight to take a cheap shot. Adrenaline was going GGG is swinging away he don't know if the guy knee is on the ground or if he is getting low. Ref did the right thing!

I would've been totally fine with a DQ.

No........credit to David for not acting like a b1tch

It was DQ worthy...he loaded up a punch while the guy was clearly down. It wasn't a split second thing...he pushed out a ranging finding left and then loaded up a right hand against a defenseless fighter. But hey, being the new house fighter has its privileges. I guess hte most egregious thing about wasn't the foul, but the ref's inaction

yes, roy jones did the same thing and got DQ,hence his comment on the broadcast however,if the f*ckboy ass ref wasnt gonna take points,at the very least he should have let David recover as if it was a low blow,,i mean it was a blatant foul True, I was kinda surprised that the ref didn't take any action at all and just ignored the late shot completely as if it hadn't happened. Especially with that ref who stopped the fight when Lemieux was still on his feet, you would have thought he'd be extra vigilant when it came to fouls during the bout, even if it was accidental, but he didn't even acknowledge the punch..

I'm never really a fan of a guy who is winning a fight getting DQ'd over what appears to be an unintentional foul. For examp0le, I don't like Jon Jones, but him getting DQ'd against Matt Hammill was ridiculous. If GGG would have been DQ'd, I'm sure some idiots in here would have found ways to defend it. I could see giving David extra time to recover, but a DQ would have been over the top

He should have had a point taken away. It wasn't just a reflex. Lemieux was clearly down and GGG had plenty of time to adjust. If Lemieux was smart he would have gone down like he just got KO'd and he would have taken GGG's belts and set up a lucrative rematch for him to get sparked out early by an angry GGG. The Roy Jones situation was much different as Roy hit him a few times after he took a knee and caused a KO situation.

Absolutely not. Points maybe, but not a DQ. Punches like that happen quite a bit.

Point off. People who think it's the same as Roy Jones' DQ read that in an article and started repeating it because they hate Golovkin. I sincerely doubt they saw at least one of those moments, let alone both.

It was borderline. I think it all came down to David not acting like it messed him up any worse. Had he flopped around the ring and really played it up he probably would have gotten a dq.

Still... Rules are rules... I just wonder what if the opposite happened ...

Nah not a DQ. A point off at most. The Jones incident was different. He hit him twice and more time had passed since the knee. Props to Lemieux, he could of milked it and put pressure on the ref.

No dq, a point would have been appropriate. Lemiux could have milked that and stay down to force the referee to give him some time or call the fight which would have turned into a nc.

HELL YES!!! many fighters have been disqualified for less Manos de fuego eh.

A point taken perhaps. Not DQ worthy. But then again, Joe Cortez.

LOL...That facial expression on GGG's face... I sure got scared of DQ for a sec and knew he just goofed ... :)

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Point deduction but nowhere near a DQ. He started the swinging motion when DL was starting to kneel. I'm also confused. Logic tells me that GGG must have pulled that bunch back. But then he acted confused when the ref tells warns him, it takes him 2 seconds to understand what ref is saying and bow in apology. But to anyone watching that punch, there's no way in hell that was not pulled back by GGG. That thing landed cleanly without any defenses from David, and David took it and didn't even look hurt. It barely even rocked his head back. There were a ton of other punches that didn't land nearly as cleanly that rocked DL back or to the side. Here's the punch. https://vine.co/v/e9OAIx6KYrQ