Originally posted by AntDawg
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Bernard did catch Joe with a sweet right, but alot of the knockdown was from balance, and leverage (Hopkins was actually pushing behind the right hand). Watch it again, slomo, and you'll see what I mean.
If Roy catches Joe with a single big punch and knocks him down, he'll get up, recover, and the fight will go on. Joe has a helluva chin and while a massive puncher could probably put him down to say with a single shot, Roy just isn't a huge puncher. Power? Certainly, enough to do the job for most opponents, but Zaggs isn't most opponents. Guy's got a beard. Did you see that punch Mitchell caught him with? Now that was a big ****ing punch. Joe went down, got up (hurt), started throwing while he recovered and hurt Mitchell enough to get a TKO while he was still recovering. No, Roy doesn't want him down, he wants him hurt, with big holes in his defense so he can land more and hurt him worse and get the ref to stop it.
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