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I can't believe the sheer amount of threads and posts by users on this site dis*****g last night's stoppage in the Marquez/Vazquez fight. Vazquez came with his A game and was landing solid, hard left hooks from the first 30 seconds of the fight. And while Marquez was giving as much as he was taking at times, I think anybody with half a brain could see the damage inflicted by Vazquez's hook starting to take effect.
The wheels were pretty much set in motion in the third round when Vazquez nailed Marquez with a left hook that sent Marquez flying backward. Had it not been for the ring ropes I think Marquez may have fallen out of the ring. Marquez was very slow to rally back and pretty much covered up the best he could for 30-45 seconds.
In round 4 Marquez did a great job at coming back, but by the 5th round he had slowed his work rate down significantly. In the 6th Vazquez put Marquez down with a perfect left hook and when Marquez got up his legs were already gone. He wobbled back to the ropes in the corner and took a hell of a beating there, he then wobbled out of the corner, only to get trapped against the ropes.
Most here like to argue that Marquez was throwing back, and I agree. But what he was throwing back were mere pitter-patter shots that had no snap or power behind them. He was clearly throwing on instinct alone, to keep the referee from stopping the fight. I suppose he figured if he made it out of the round he could get enough rest to continue, which I just can't see happening.
The point in which the fight was stopped was when Marquez slipped on the slick logo on the ringmat, then regained some sense of balance, only to slide with his back to the ropes into yet another corner. Marquez was getting beaten, plain and simple, and badly at that.
The worst part of the whole ordeal was coming on here and reading multiple posts by multiple users who wanted to see more of it. I know that it was already a FOTY candidate, and proven to be exciting within the first minute of the fight. But even if the referee hadn't stopped the fight, Marquez was gone.
There's no way he would've or could've been able to battle back in the seventh, if he could've even survived the last minute of the 6th. Had the fight went onward Marquez would've been beaten even worse, knocked out and possibly taken to the hospital. That's not something I think any rational fight fan wants to see in a boxing match.
It was better to go ahead and stop the fight and let them settle it in a third fight, live to fight another day and go down in history as one of the most exciting trilogies of all time. Anybody who wanted to see Marquez take further unprotected left hooks from Vazquez last night is a ****ing sadist.
Bring on the bitches.
The wheels were pretty much set in motion in the third round when Vazquez nailed Marquez with a left hook that sent Marquez flying backward. Had it not been for the ring ropes I think Marquez may have fallen out of the ring. Marquez was very slow to rally back and pretty much covered up the best he could for 30-45 seconds.
In round 4 Marquez did a great job at coming back, but by the 5th round he had slowed his work rate down significantly. In the 6th Vazquez put Marquez down with a perfect left hook and when Marquez got up his legs were already gone. He wobbled back to the ropes in the corner and took a hell of a beating there, he then wobbled out of the corner, only to get trapped against the ropes.
Most here like to argue that Marquez was throwing back, and I agree. But what he was throwing back were mere pitter-patter shots that had no snap or power behind them. He was clearly throwing on instinct alone, to keep the referee from stopping the fight. I suppose he figured if he made it out of the round he could get enough rest to continue, which I just can't see happening.
The point in which the fight was stopped was when Marquez slipped on the slick logo on the ringmat, then regained some sense of balance, only to slide with his back to the ropes into yet another corner. Marquez was getting beaten, plain and simple, and badly at that.
The worst part of the whole ordeal was coming on here and reading multiple posts by multiple users who wanted to see more of it. I know that it was already a FOTY candidate, and proven to be exciting within the first minute of the fight. But even if the referee hadn't stopped the fight, Marquez was gone.
There's no way he would've or could've been able to battle back in the seventh, if he could've even survived the last minute of the 6th. Had the fight went onward Marquez would've been beaten even worse, knocked out and possibly taken to the hospital. That's not something I think any rational fight fan wants to see in a boxing match.
It was better to go ahead and stop the fight and let them settle it in a third fight, live to fight another day and go down in history as one of the most exciting trilogies of all time. Anybody who wanted to see Marquez take further unprotected left hooks from Vazquez last night is a ****ing sadist.
Bring on the bitches.
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