Rivera/Simms, Was it a Premature Stoppage?

[neils7147933]

The stoppage was good, but in fairness to Rivera, both the KD's were questionable. If you look at them, he was definitely stunned by the punches that were credited with the KD's, but both times it was the bullrush that actaully created the KD's.
In the first case, he was bullrushed into the ropes, and was not held up by the ropes, so I didn't understand that one. He was getting low to avoid fursther punches.
In the second case, it was a shoulder during the bull rush that finally made him go down.

Rivera was wearing enough advertizing in the fight to make me wonder if i was actually watching NASCAR.

The first KD was legit - it was a prior punch that did the damage. He was going down no matter what other physicality occurred...

[FeelTheA-Force]

From what I could see it was not broken but it bled a lot... maybe a broken blood vesseel. That was a big problem because obviously he had big trouble breathing..the cut on the nose was pretty bad, though, too.

Do your fighters ever blame you? I mean if a fighter loses it can go back to the trainer. How do you handle such questions from the media and public?

[jujuman]

if at some point in the fight he had hurt simms or put simms in danger or some thing then i would call it a premature....... well not premature but ........ man i dont know he was getting his ass handed to him at it wasnt getting better. The ref has to make sure its a fight not a beatting. Well he was the champ though.... maybe he should have giving him a chance.... or waited for another knock down......... na stop it his defence was gone.

[oldgringo]

You could clearly see that Rivera wanted to keep going, but Simms was hitting him with some shots that could do some big damage. Did the ref say anything to Rivera following the second KD?