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This has NOTHING to do with Haye, either Klitschko, or the big hairy Russian. NOTHING! Just don't bring it up. This is about that fight and those two fighters, nothing about any greater implications. Make that same thread again and again if that is what you care about.
Anyway, I downloaded the fight. It is in a language I don't recognize on a station that puts the letters "cnopt" on the screen. Anyone? It is the shame the UK broadcasters didn't put it on their ppv as it was an entertaining fight while it lasted. Though I guess I can't complain about the free stream I watched over here in the states.
The first round was very odd. Macca (who I find entertaining by the way, which is why I downloaded the fight. I like offensively talented but defensively flawed fighters best.) fought backing up as if he was trying to box, but then he didn't actually ever punch. He looked terrified of being hit, nothing like the aggressor he used to be. Lebedev won the round simply by trying to.
The second round was better. Macca turned some of those left hooks to the body that he throws so well and avoided being hit mostly. He won the round and looked pretty good doing it.
The third round started well for him, but some incoming slipped through and of course it hurt him. He staggered a little and started bleeding. He continued to stagger around a bit like someone who was really drunk, fought back a little, tried to clinch, and then he stepped back to the ropes and got caught with a big right. He came forward to try to clinch and... the ref stopped it.
This was a ridiculously awful stoppage. I mean really, really bad. He was hurt, but come on. I've seen worse ones, I guess, and this was a pretty irrelevant fight in the grand scheme of things, but he never even came close to going down and only got hit clean a few times. Bizarre. You expect that kind of stoppage (though it is still wrong) for the hometown fighter, not the foreigner.
Anyway, I downloaded the fight. It is in a language I don't recognize on a station that puts the letters "cnopt" on the screen. Anyone? It is the shame the UK broadcasters didn't put it on their ppv as it was an entertaining fight while it lasted. Though I guess I can't complain about the free stream I watched over here in the states.
The first round was very odd. Macca (who I find entertaining by the way, which is why I downloaded the fight. I like offensively talented but defensively flawed fighters best.) fought backing up as if he was trying to box, but then he didn't actually ever punch. He looked terrified of being hit, nothing like the aggressor he used to be. Lebedev won the round simply by trying to.
The second round was better. Macca turned some of those left hooks to the body that he throws so well and avoided being hit mostly. He won the round and looked pretty good doing it.
The third round started well for him, but some incoming slipped through and of course it hurt him. He staggered a little and started bleeding. He continued to stagger around a bit like someone who was really drunk, fought back a little, tried to clinch, and then he stepped back to the ropes and got caught with a big right. He came forward to try to clinch and... the ref stopped it.
This was a ridiculously awful stoppage. I mean really, really bad. He was hurt, but come on. I've seen worse ones, I guess, and this was a pretty irrelevant fight in the grand scheme of things, but he never even came close to going down and only got hit clean a few times. Bizarre. You expect that kind of stoppage (though it is still wrong) for the hometown fighter, not the foreigner.
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