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[Zarco]

The part where that guy in the white trunk takes a knee after the "body shot." I ****ing hate seeing fixed fights with fixed refs. **** who ever puts fights like that together. Bernard does his little shoulder shrug and backs away acting all bad(the signal), the looser takes a knee, the ref knows bernard is going to walk up to the looser and talk ****, the ref calmly walks up to them and says c'mon c'mon bernard to the corner.

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[AntonTheMeh]

[mspiegelo]

The part where that guy in the white trunk takes a knee after the "body shot." I ****ing hate seeing fixed fights with fixed refs. **** who ever puts fights like that together. Bernard does his little shoulder shrug and backs away acting all bad(the signal), the looser takes a knee, the ref knows bernard is going to walk up to the looser and talk ****, the ref calmly walks up to them and says c'mon c'mon bernard to the corner.

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felix sturm is awesome! good job!

[AntonTheMeh]

**** you spaghetti.

[larryx]

The part where that guy in the white trunk takes a knee after the "body shot." I ****ing hate seeing fixed fights with fixed refs. **** who ever puts fights like that together. Bernard does his little shoulder shrug and backs away acting all bad(the signal), the looser takes a knee, the ref knows bernard is going to walk up to the looser and talk ****, the ref calmly walks up to them and says c'mon c'mon bernard to the corner.

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and why would that fight have been fixed?

[warp1432]

Have you seen Hopkins-Hakkar? Hopkins was really putting it on him. Hakkar went down on a knee because he was overwhelmed.

[larryx]

Have you seen Hopkins-Hakkar? Hopkins was really putting it on him. Hakkar went down on a knee because he was overwhelmed.

he probally thinks pavlik-lockett was fixed too

[pfcwintergreen]

The part where that guy in the white trunk takes a knee after the "body shot." I ****ing hate seeing fixed fights with fixed refs.

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I think you've got it all wrong man. That clip is awesome; B-hop ripped him with a great body shot and then saw that the delayed reaction knee was coming (which happens quite frequently when a fighter lands an excellent body shot)

Basically, B-hop knew that shot would force his opponent to take a knee, so he decided to swagger around the ring a bit and just wait for it to happen. I think this was, for lack of a better word, cool. It was certainly stylish, and would serve as a perfect Exhibit A. regarding Bernard's economy of punching.

Its perfect highlight reel footage...and why would the fight need to be thrown? B-hop was probably the favorite, if they were going to throw the fight, it would have been for the UNDERDOG.