Khan vs. Barrera - Official Protest is Filed By Don King

[GrizzleBoy]

I know right? I mean, especially since they fought in Khan's area, of course they'd pull that disgusting cut bull**** just to give their biggest hype job a W.

FINALLY, someone is officially speaking up about this.

It is really a shame and a testament to how dirty the decision was that it took Don King of all people to speak up about it first though isn't it?

[stefjonno1]

Well played Don king. He has a valid point. The ref and doctor should hang their heads in shame.


I think the ref and doctor bottled it bigtime! I was there and the fight was on real late, but the ref has to do his job, as does the doctor, and they probably feared some crowd trouble if the fight had been stopped in the first or second round, but thats what their payed to do! ****in dummys.

[GrizzleBoy]

I said this at another boxing site the night of the fight: Barrera has no one to blame but himself for the result of the match. He knew that the doctors were already concerned about the cut by the way they were examining it and asking him if he wanted to continue or could continue. They stopped it in the fourth rd again and asked him, yet he continued.

I get it, he is a warrior who would never quit and I respect that...but look what happened. He was, as has been mentioned, in Khan's back yard so why would you ever let your fate rest in the hands of those guys? All he had to say to the doctor and ref when they asked him if he could continue was exactly what he chose to say after the fight, "I could not see because the blood was in my eye" and the fight would have been called a ND right there....just like Guerrero did in his fight (even though people seem to think he blew Guerrero away by being a warrior instead of being smart) but this is really a matter of personal opinion.

If he had swallowed his pride, he would certainly be granted a rematch and could have fought another day. You let someone else control your destiny, then you deserve to be where you are!!

Since when do fighters have more authority to stop a match than the ref/doctor?

Since when do fighters have more authority to stop a match than the ref/doctor when the fighter has one of the worse cuts many people have ever seen in their life?

It's not Barerras job to stop the fight. What Barerra thought about the matter is 100% IRRELEVANT.

The ref and doc have a JOB to do. They're there to protect the boxer from further damage. They're paid to do this job. They're trained to do this job, but they didn't do it until after the fourth for some reason.

They FAILED to stop a boxer who had a cut that went down to the BONE from the FIRST round from getting injured unneccesarily

Tell me how you, as a doctor/ref, are going to look at a cut like that and let it go on till the fifth round? I can just imagine it now:

"Oh **** that cut is ****ed up!
Hrmm it's not closing either.
Maybe it will heal up better after specifically five rounds of being punched and rubbed and bumped with leather gloves?
Hrmmm it's the fifth round now and it hasn't healed up for some reason? Maybe I should stop it now?"

You tell me what you think the doc/ref were thinking?

I can understand MAYBE allowing it to go into the third, giving the boxer a few more rounds to see if it's closing, but the cut wasn't closing AT ALL. The corner man said he could see BONE as he was trying to close it up.....

They should have checked that cut WELL before the END of the fourth round, because it's not like it suddenly got bad in the fourth that they had to check it.

It was JUST as bad in the first.

It was JUST as bad in the second. Why didn't they check it again?

It was JUST as bad in the third. Why didn't they check again in the third?

It was JUST as bad in the fourth round as it was in the fifth round. If that was the case, why didn't they take it upon themselves to end it in the fourth (dont give me any rubbish about "Barerra said he wants to go on" it's up to the ref to protect him)?

What was so special about the fifth round that they finally decided to stop it? The cut was no different in the fifth than it was in the first, second, third or fourth round, yet he was still fit to box right up until the fifth?

but no..........it's Barerras fault for not stopping the fight earlier.......

[Dave Rado]

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla.—Promoter Don King has filed a protest with the British Boxing Board of Control, World Boxing Organization and World Boxing Association on behalf of Marco Antonio Barrera claiming his accidental clash of heads with Amir Khan during the first round of their match should have resulted in the fight being ruled no contest. [details]

That's the first time I remember Don King doing the right thing.

[Dave Rado]

OMFG.


Am I really agreeing with DON ****ING KING?





Wow.

Yeah, it gave me a shock to find myself agreeing with him, too.

[S A M U R A I]

Since when do fighters have more authority to stop a match than the ref/doctor?

Since when do fighters have more authority to stop a match than the ref/doctor when the fighter has one of the worse cuts many people have ever seen in their life?

It's not Barerras job to stop the fight. What Barerra thought about the matter is 100% IRRELEVANT.

The ref and doc have a JOB to do. They're there to protect the boxer from further damage. They're paid to do this job. They're trained to do this job, but they didn't do it until after the fourth for some reason.

They FAILED to stop a boxer who had a cut that went down to the BONE from the FIRST round from getting injured unneccesarily

Tell me how you, as a doctor/ref, are going to look at a cut like that and let it go on till the fifth round? I can just imagine it now:

"Oh **** that cut is ****ed up!
Hrmm it's not closing either.
Maybe it will heal up better after specifically five rounds of being punched and rubbed and bumped with leather gloves?
Hrmmm it's the fifth round now and it hasn't healed up for some reason? Maybe I should stop it now?"

You tell me what you think the doc/ref were thinking?

I can understand MAYBE allowing it to go into the third, giving the boxer a few more rounds to see if it's closing, but the cut wasn't closing AT ALL. The corner man said he could see BONE as he was trying to close it up.....

They should have checked that cut WELL before the END of the fourth round, because it's not like it suddenly got bad in the fourth that they had to check it.

It was JUST as bad in the first.

It was JUST as bad in the second. Why didn't they check it again?

It was JUST as bad in the third. Why didn't they check again in the third?

It was JUST as bad in the fourth round as it was in the fifth round. If that was the case, why didn't they take it upon themselves to end it in the fourth (dont give me any rubbish about "Barerra said he wants to go on" it's up to the ref to protect him)?

What was so special about the fifth round that they finally decided to stop it? The cut was no different in the fifth than it was in the first, second, third or fourth round, yet he was still fit to box right up until the fifth?

but no..........it's Barerras fault for not stopping the fight earlier.......

I was about to type this out but you did it for me.



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[Dave Rado]

I said this at another boxing site the night of the fight: Barrera has no one to blame but himself for the result of the match.

That's crap, the doctor's and referee's first duty is protect the fighters - against themselves, where necessary - and they should both be banned for life for endangering the health of a fighter.

Barrera shouldn't have even been asked if he wanted to continue. And it's ridiculous that they didn't even look at the cut until the fourth round, when it was one of the worst cuts in any boxing ring ever. They should have inspected it in the first round and stopped the fight in the second, regardless of how much Barrera might have protested.

[ßringer]

So what? People are trying to blame Barrera now?

They really think the prideful Mexican warrior Barrera was going to be like :

You know what? Fuck it, I quit. My people will understand.

Barrera is a warrior, he wasn't about to say he wanted to quit fighting. It's the referee and doctor's jobs to know when to step in to protect him. Of course he's going to want to continue, he's a fighter, what do you expect?

[tommy boo boxer]

Don is a mess. His man would have lost regardless, they would have just ended when it first stared rather than thinking Barrera would beat on Khan's china-chin. Accidental headbuts happen all the time.

Yep... but gashes like that dont now do they?

[- JCHING -]

Everything about the Khan/MAB fight just pisses me off. King is exactly right in everything he is saying, and an immediate rematch is definitely required - but we all know the outcome of this protest - complete ignorance.