Should have been a ref stoppage in round 9

[Gideon lock]

You're hard chatting chit online lad.

Ditto, I'm just responding in kind from your comment on the low blow thread. Bellend. I'd say the same to your face. Leave you asleep whistling through the gap where your front teeth used to be.

[ELPacman]

Go listen to ProBoxTV and reeducate yourselves. Paulie and Chris Algeri said it best, fans forgot the rules because the refs forgot the rules. If a fighter falls into the ropes, they're well within their right to issue a standing 8 count. The ropes held them up. In fact, what the ref did was commemorable because another ref could have jumped in too soon and stopped it.

[hugh grant]

Fury looked more gone, than he did getting knocked down for 10 in wilder in 1st fight

[Shrap]

The ref didn't do great and I didn't like that he blocked Usyk from throwing that final punch which likely would have turned Fury's lights out.

In the same breath he really could have ended it because Fury got seriously hurt and he needs to look at a boxer's wellbeing. Did anyone else see his eyes roll back after the first big hit? That was sickening to watch.

[4truth]

The ropes were holding him up, that's a knockdown. I don't see much to complain about here.

A lot of ways to second guess the ref, no matter what he did.

[Sparked_26]

I find it weird that people whinge about this too.

Yeah he could have stopped it but equally it isnt like Fury didnt recover.

The only issue or luck that happened is if the ref didn't issue the standing 8 - Usyk may have been able to put him out. But he had ample opportunity even then. Fury isn't an easy man to finish. We know this.

But in the main I'm certain people on here watch boxing merely to underpin a narrative they have created in a post or two on here.

Usyk deservedly won and was the better man on the night in a great fight. I really enjoyed it anyway which surely is the point of being a boxing fan.

[_Rexy_]

I'm going to guess that most people (myself included) probably meant a mandatory 8 rather than a standing 8. To be a little pedantic.

Never know, lot of people on social media were saying it was a standing 8 because he never went down, and were unsure if that even counted as a 10-8

[_Rexy_]

It was a slow count, but when do you ever hear of a count being too fast? Counts are always slow. Also you don't stop fights in title fights like this unless the guy is KTFO.

Often if you’re the B side

[_Rexy_]

Go listen to ProBoxTV and reeducate yourselves. Paulie and Chris Algeri said it best, fans forgot the rules because the refs forgot the rules. If a fighter falls into the ropes, they're well within their right to issue a standing 8 count. The ropes held them up. In fact, what the ref did was commemorable because another ref could have jumped in too soon and stopped it.

Problem here is the ref ignored Fury falling into the ropes 4 times in that sequence already, and THEN decided to jump in before Usyk landed the finishing blow. He could have called the KD far earlier but then Fury wouldn’t have survived the round

[diplo]

Often if you’re the B side

Very true.

Fury rocked Usyk with a huge uppercut at one point, I thought that might have been it for Usyk. I guess we'll never know how he'd have been counted... Waved off at 3? Possibly.