still confused about the calzaghe stoppage

[Mick Hucknall]

robjr you'll just hate on Calzaghe no matter what he does, lets wait and hear what you have to say when Calzaghe embarrases Taylor and then moves onto kessler and beats him too

[squealpiggy]

anyone who says good stoppage should never watch a fight again....apparently you have no shame on what happened....we all know calzaghe would have won the fight...but to not believe in your fighter enough to risk any more rounds by stopping a fight way too early is pathetic...Calzaghe will never fight in the United states because he would easily lose...

That doesn't make sense, why would he lose in the US? Would Manfredo suddenly remember that boxing involves throwing punches?

[zestypickler]

That doesn't make sense, why would he lose in the US? Would Manfredo suddenly remember that boxing involves throwing punches?

Lol. Funny Piggy.
Standing 8 and warning should have been given. Premature stoppage no doubt. But dammit, Manfredo was in the wrong ring tonight. This whole fight was farcical. C'mon Calzhage, fight someone with a pulse.
There were no winners in that fight. The ref was an ass, Manfredo should be back losing to reality TV fighters, Calzhage should never have taken this piss-easy fight, The promoters should never push such an obvious mismatch.
I was actually able to be home for this fight and I didn't bother watching (and I have never turned off a boxing match before) cause I knew this fight was going to be ******.
I didn't know that the ref was going to make it even worse but there was no doubt it was going to suck.
BTW for those people who seem a little deluded, I watched the clips before the stoppage and while Manfredo's gloves were up and getting in the way, Calzhage's punches were going through and round them. If you watch the footage Calzhage makes contact with at least 80% of those unanswered punches.
****** end to a pointless fight.
NEXT!!!!!!!!

[Xcel]

Nothing else really to be said except that it was one of the worst stoppages in history.

[zestypickler]

BTW this is my really old ID. I'm away from home and entered the wrong details. This is actually Monkeyboy. Anybody wants to chat or flame me, aim for that one.

[Franko]

stoppages are based on a fighter not being able to defend themselves,thats the whole idea of a stoppage,isnt it?

Manfredo was defending himself, but the bottom line is that there is no doubt that Calzaghe would have went on to win the fight, and could possibly have done serious damage as Manfredo was clearly out of his league. Simple as that. Yes the stoppage was premature, but the referee was effectively saving Manfredo from further punishment, which did Calzaghe no favours.

[cortdawg25]

That was the worst stoppage in boxing history damn near. And people on here wonder why Americans with something to lose dont won't to go across the pond. it's because of decisions like that, that was ridiculous. Calzaghe didn't land not 1 significant punch in that whole barrage of punches and hte ref stopped it. He wasn't knocked down, he wasn't falling over, and he was ducking punches and covering up. That never would have been a stoppage over here, that's all i got to say!!

[.Mik.]

People need to stop being so ridiculous and over-the-top. It was nowhere NEAR the worst stoppage in boxing history.

I didnt agree with the stoppage and absolutely think that Manfredo should've been given a standing 8 and told to start throwing punches or the fight would be stopped.

But I understand the ref's mindset. As far as he was concerned, Calzaghe threw maybe 40 unanswered punches, he was only just starting to unload. Manfredo was defending but was not even attempting to swing back. The only way the fight was going to go was with Calzaghe continuing to pummel Manfredo on the ropes until he knocked him out.

What is the point in allowing that to continue other than to satiate bloodthirst?

[KoolWillie]

The reff was paid too stop the fight

[.Mik.]

All refs are paid to stop the fight when a fighter is in danger or is not fighting back.