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The James Toney-Hasim Rahman rematch was supposed to bring closure to their initial meeting two years ago, which ended in a debatable draw. In the aftermath of the controversial third round TKO win for Toney, the result has drawn far more questions than conclusions. [details]
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at first i was like that was a bs call, but then after wtaching and listening to what rahman says and from hearing his corner men call over the doctor, i'm having second thoughts about it, i don't think it was that much of a bad decision.
rahman did call the doctor over and he did tell him that he couldn't see. and although it was called by a head butt, the doctor didn't even view the cut as one bad enough to stop the fight on the cut alone. rahman was saying that he couldn't see and therefore couldn't fight. i didn't and still don't know what rahamn was thinking, other than he didn't want to fight anymore after being cut, and was trying to get it to stop and be a no contest or no decision.
but like i said, you can hear him and his corner men wanting the doctor to come see the cut. you can hear someone on the side in the corner say: go get the doctor to take a look at this. get him to see this cut.
the doctor wasn't even going to go up to the apron to view the cut, not until rahman's corner called him over, so, like i said, i don't have much sympathy anymore, not as much as i did when it first happened. i can see how they came to the conclusion that the fight be stopped and that it was rahman saying to stop it pretty much, enough was said and done by rahman to draw to that conclusion................
tought titty, he should've fought on a round to see where he was at before wanting to see the doc..... -
The cut was disgusting but the way Rahman was so clumsy after throwing a jab and leaning in.Comment
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loser retires .. bye bye Rahman ....
when a fighter gets to that stage where he
is whining about a small cut that means its time to hang em' up
Toney is only getting warmed up ....Comment
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seems like Rahman just lost the desire IMOComment
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Rahman wanted out, and he saw an avenue to not look as bad by whinin about the stoppage. **** him. Retire Rock.Comment
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yeah the difference is Rahman is a boxer but Toney actually loves to fight thats why he can still do it .. Chris Byrd is a turd though for saying everyone
could see it was a headbut, it wasn't really much of a headbut ...
Byrd is just upset because he had a personal gripe with Toney ...
Rahman should and will retire ... that cut was really small but
he felt it was big so that tells you something ..Comment
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I have been told before that things in California are not normal.Comment
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All I know is that Rahman was outworking Toney early, and Toney was a bit lagged behind and couldn't catch Rahman yet.........then all of the sudden the headbutt cut and Toney starts landing hard right hands?Comment
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If you pay attention to the first 2 rounds you can clearly see Toney is measuring Rahman the whole time. It was only going to be a matter of time before he started consistently slipping the jab and landing those hard right hand counters, regardless of Rahman's eye. I call BS on the not being able to see. Rahman could clearly see that he was on his way to being picked apart by a measuring Toney and saw a 3rd round NC as an easy way out.
If you watch the Toney/Holyfield fight, you'll see the same thing; first few rounds Holy was up, but Toney measuring the entire time. By round 7 Rahman would have hit the canvas due to the same accurate punching that put Holy down. It was only a matter of timeComment
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