Edgar Sosa Will Protest TKO Loss To Rodel Mayol

[Dangerous Game]

Just watched the vid, the clash of heads really fucked Sosa up.

[Dangerous Game]

It's sort of like when Shane got dropped and almost stopped by Forrest.

[znarfv_y2k8]

It's clearly a legitimate win for Mayol, a new Filipino champion...

Why the hell would Mayol get disqualified? That was just as much as Sosa's fault than Mayol. If you look at the replay, Sosa came forward more than Mayol did.



watch 2:54

Mayol is clearly in the process of punching & landed in Sosa's body, it's more than the fault of Sosa rather than Mayol there's no intentional head butting there...In the first place if the referee ruled it as intentional then Mayol should immediately protest that call that is already unfair in the part of Mayol not the other way around...It only shows Mayol's victory was legitimate...More power to you Mayol, a new Filipino champion....

[-Hyperion-]

Well you are right about that.

Ive seen Sosa fight like 10 times already including his fight with Soto who is feather fisted and was hurting him bad. Based on that fight I predicted a KO win for Mayol. Dude have power and Sosa dont like those.


Im not ojective but you are, right? **** outta here with your bull****

so that journeyman is better than viloria right?fighetrs hav ebad nights, and ugly styles.......doesnt mean **** if they legitimately win...im not even saying sosa wouldve won, like i said, mayol=bad match up for non puncher.......you **** outta here....how many times most i school you to get t through your head that youre just a biased homer????go wank to some puerto rican boxer.....

[znarfv_y2k8]

MADNESS IN MEXICO
Graham Houston

SATURDAY, Nov. 21 Just when you think you’ve seen it all, you realise that you haven’t.

I’m still in shock over the ending to the Edgar Sosa-Rodel Mayol light-flyweight title fight in Mexico tonight.

When you talk about travesties in boxing, this was one of the worst you will ever see — and it happened on Sosa’s home ground in Tuxtla Gutierrez.

Everyone will have read about this crazy ending by now. For those who didn’t see it, let me briefly set the scene.

Mayol was fighting strongly and confidently but Sosa, always a somewhat slow starter, was boxing in his usual cool, measured manner when suddenly, in round two, Mayol came in with head lowered and the top of his crewcut skull smashed into Sosa’s face, sending the champion to the canvas on hands and knees.

The fight should have been waved over immediately and ruled a no decision. It would have been disappointing to the crowd and viewers watching on Televisa in Mexico and worldwide on the internet, but it would have been the appropriate decision.

Yet the Puerto Rican referee Roberto Ramirez Jr., after deducting a point from Mayol, waved the boxers to continue.

Of course, the Filipino Mayol, a very good puncher, steamed right through the still-shaken Sosa and overwhelmed him with a barrage of blows to bring the referee’s intervention.

This was absolute madness. Where was the five-minute break to which a boxer is entitled after being fouled (accidentally or otherwise)? Why didn’t Sosa’s corner remonstrate with the referee and seek to buy some time for their fighter? In this situation a quick-thinking and experienced cornerman can save the day. Of course, I can think of a few fighters who would surely have bailed out had they been in Sosa’s position, who would have said they could not continue — and no one could have blamed them.

I think that Sosa was too proud (or maybe too dazed) to comprehend fully what was going on. His trainer should have been screaming at the referee, doing everything possible to get the fighter some desperately needed minutes of recovery time.

Let me tell you, I was astonished to the point of disbelief when Ramirez gave the signal to box on. Sosa’s ability to fight had been seriously compromised. As soon as I saw his legs as he tried to move away from Mayol, I knew he had no chance of getting through the round — the collision had taken him completely out of the contest.

How can incidents such as this be allowed to happen in boxing? WBC president Jose Sulaiman and his son Mauricio were at ringside. Shouldn’t they have called over the referee as soon as Mayol’s head had hammered Sosa to the floor and conferred with the official? Trust me, that is what Larry Hazzard would have done when he was New Jersey boxing commissioner and that’s what Marc Ratner would have done when he was executive director of the Nevada commission.

Why can’t boxing get things right?

For Sosa, getting knocked down by a full-impact head butt was worse than if he had been dropped by a punch — he might even have been mildly concussed.

I can’t blame Mayol for seizing the moment and going in to finish off his stricken opponent — that’s his job.

However, I do blame Sosa’s corner, the referee and the WBC for allowing a fighter to continue when clearly he was in no position to defend himself.

Had the fight taken place in Manila, the Mexican faction would have been protesting loud and long about being victims of a fiasco in the Philippines, yet this farce occurred in their own country.

Seeing is believing, but I still can’t believe what I witnessed in that Mexican ring this Saturday night. Poor Sosa. Poor boxing, come to that. Only in boxing can this sort of thing happen so consistently.

A great British comedian of years ago, Arthur Askey, had a famous catch phrase that was once in wide currency in the U.K. and which sums up my feelings about tonight's fight. In Arthur's immortal words: “Doesn’t it make you want to spit?”

I don't find it controversial or somewhat travesty as you called it...There are different angles of replay, Mayol is in the process of punching while Sosa is in clear view of what was going to happen...I believe that was an accident, Mayol was not to blame w/, since he's only using a fighter's instinct to finish the fight if given the opportunity...If there were lapses maybe on the part of Sosa's team, Sosa himself or somehow on the referees decision who ruled it as intentional, unfair on Mayols part for a 1 point deduction...I don't find Sosa in no position to defend himself as what you have stated & I believe there's enough time given for him to recover for what ever effect he has absorbed after the accidental clashing of heads...As we can see as the fight started Mayol was faster, stronger & clearly superior over the champion...Mayol has shown it before in his 1st encounter w/ Calderon a top ten P4P & he was clearly robbed in that fight...Mayol was denied before w/ a championship belt but not this one...

[znarfv_y2k8]

so that journeyman is better than viloria right?fighetrs hav ebad nights, and ugly styles.......doesnt mean **** if they legitimately win...im not even saying sosa wouldve won, like i said, mayol=bad match up for non puncher.......you **** outta here....how many times most i school you to get t through your head that youre just a biased homer????go wank to some puerto rican boxer.....

It sounds that you ruled Mayol out of contention...He's in the level of Calderon not as what you think as a journeyman...I believe skill wise Mayol is better than Viloria as what has shown w/ in the 1st Calderon fight a top ten P4P...He's fast, strong & improved but only have a glass chin...He was strong against Ulisses Solis until only caught by a knock out punch, I believe he has improved after that fight...

[SceneSpectator!]

Yeah it was too bad the clash happend but if the rematch happens mayol should get disqualified if it happens again he has a history of using his head once it's ok two is passable but 3 times in a row I have to think that it is in his game plan.

First, you have to prove that it was intentional and I agree to strip of his newly acquired title and disqualify him right away. While it is true that Mayol last 3 fights marred with headbutts, none of these 3 headbutts showed it was intentional. IMO, Mayol style makes him prone to this headbutting, though not intentional, It so happened that he have that harder nut than his opponents.

[jetgeomcx]

mayol's fyting style is really prone to head butts.
it could be not intentional on his part, but he lean his head too far out.
he is even defenseless when he does it.
his opponent/s should capitalise on it.

[mushahadeen]

Nonstop bitching. If Esgar Sosa was a real man he would've bit off Mayol's ear.

[NYU Alum.]

If I were to base my prediction on Sosa's demeanor in that ring prior to the headbutts, I would've picked Mayol.

Go ahead with a rematch, Sosa might end up regretting he wanted one.