Comments Thread For: Gary Antuanne Russell: If Barthelemy Was Allowed To Continue, It Would've Been Same Outcome

[Chris Hanson]

Obviously, nobody has ever come back from a knockdown to win a fight... Ever!

Never. It should be first man down loses. Rocky doesn’t avenge apollos death. Mr T ends up with Adrian. No rematch with Castillo. I never want to hear these pbc guys complain about Taylor or chavez again.

[Lefty0616]

Russell is not a good fighter. He's too short, swings too wildly, and lacks defense. He got caught early in his fight yesterday, who's to say that Rancid could not catch him again. Rancid got knocked down, he got hurt, but he recovered quickly from it. You could tell when he got caught, he would recover. The sad thing are the Showtime commentators who all defended that dishonest referee right after the stoppage. I truly miss the analysts from HBO. And I was absolutely lost in the beginning of the fight when they stated the dirty referee had officiated over 200 professional bouts. I vaguely remember seeing this joker.

When it's all said and done, the referee will get suspended, and Russell will never be a superstar, despite Showtime's support. He's just not good.

[champion4ever]

Like most boxing fans I thought it was a bad stoppage. Anytime a fighter gets up and beats the count before the count of ten should be allowed to continue. I don't like it when referees wave off fights after the fighter has beaten the count. This is called prizefighting for a reason.

So let them go out on their shields. They're getting paid a massive amount of money to do so. However, and at the same time; I will have to agree with Antuanne Russell here. He was going to inevitably stop him anyway.

That punch landed was a leaping right hook to the temple. So it was only going to be a matter of time before Russell caught him again by stopping him.

[champion4ever]

Also, why do these bad stoppages only seem to happen at the Barclay's Center? We've witnessed the same thing with Davis vs Romero.

[Bronx2245]

The remedy is simple! RUN IT BACK!

[Bronx2245]

Like most boxing fans I thought it was a bad stoppage. Anytime a fighter gets up and beats the count before the count of ten should be allowed to continue. I don't like it when referees wave off fights after the fighter has beaten the count. This is called prizefighting for a reason.

So let them go out on their shields. They're getting paid a massive amount of money to do so. However, and at the same time; I will have to agree with Antuanne Russell here. He was going to inevitably stop him anyway.

That punch landed was a leaping right hook to the temple. So it was only going to be a matter of time before Russell caught him again by stopping him.

Russell was robbed by the bad stoppage, as much as Barthelemy was! I wanted to see how he was going to close the deal! I feel robbed too!

[War Room]

Why would he be fired? He was doing what he was told.

Because he's unable to perform his duties properly. The fighter was clearly fine and ready to continue. And why are you defending this person?

[Combat Talk Radio]

Russell is not a good fighter. He's too short, swings too wildly, and lacks defense. He got caught early in his fight yesterday, who's to say that Rancid could not catch him again. Rancid got knocked down, he got hurt, but he recovered quickly from it. You could tell when he got caught, he would recover. The sad thing are the Showtime commentators who all defended that dishonest referee right after the stoppage. I truly miss the analysts from HBO. And I was absolutely lost in the beginning of the fight when they stated the dirty referee had officiated over 200 professional bouts. I vaguely remember seeing this joker.

When it's all said and done, the referee will get suspended, and Russell will never be a superstar, despite Showtime's support. He's just not good.

Gary Antuanne is extremely talented. Point blank period. Arguably more than Mr. Gary Russell Jr.

[LA_2_Vegas]

These guys are ****** trying to build something that doesn’t exist.

Agree 100% - this is it right here. Robbing fighters, fans, to push forward fighters who may not be able to cut it because strings are (maybe) getting pulled. Cream should rise on its own

We all know this happens for popular fighters behind the scenes, but this dude is still a nobody - Rances and Postol both have put in more in the game than this guy, they deserved the benefit of the doubt.

Get TF out of the way, stop trying to manufacture, this sport will produce magic if you let !

[YoungManRumble]

If Postol was allowed to continue he would have finished the fight on his feet without a stoppage loss on his record. There was like 30 seconds left in the final round and he wasn't even knocked down if I remember correctly. Don't think he was even wobbled or hardly even visibly hurt. Anything to keep that perfect KO record.