Nice headbutt Berto! - proof inside

[BattleAxePurist]

What a letdown last night's fight turned out to be. I was genuinely excited about this fight because I knew Zaveck was a live underdog and the potential was there for the upset....

The fight itself was as I thought it would be. Berto looked incredibly sharp early on throwing some fast hard punches that had some heat on them. Zaveck to his credit used his 'gloves up crouching defense' to weather a lot of Berto's flurries and power punches. Zaveck starting mounting his own offense counter punching Berto and working inside effectively. In other words, this was close competitive fast paced exciting fight.

Well that all ended after round 5. Whether it was from a punch or headbutt (I haven't rewatched the fight yet), Zaveck's eye was in pretty bad shape - which sets up my point.

Why the ****k did Zaveck's corner pull the plug on the fight so quickly? I mean, there was so much on the line with this fight. Not only was Zaveck putting his IBF title on the line, he was also fighting for future mega fights with the other stars of the ww division....

At least give the guy another round to see if he can fight through the adversity and continue the onslaught on Berto. In my mind, round 6 could've went either of two ways: Zaveck would have taken punishment from Berto leading to a KO or TKO or Zaveck would have continued where he left off keeping the fight competitive and up for grabs...

IMO this was a bad stoppage, a premature stoppage that robbed Zaveck of the chance to possibly upset Berto...

Finally...........


Instead of all the Berto negativity there is a glimpse this seems to be vastly overlooked in that there have been numerous other examples fairly recently in which fighters and corners had the mentatlity of you can still win it go on out and make it happen seems that Zavek corner didn't believe this to be the case and erroed on the side of caution but to reliquish your belt that quickly is dissappointing

[waxfondler]

hmmmm.. interesting... good gifs. i didnt see the headbutts. they were trading bombs, and zavek didnt complain of headbutts... so i figured everything was all good.

compubox shows what the deal really was... it was a close fight, sucks for zavek to lose his belt in that manner. zavek was turning it up the last half.

great comeback for berto, but if it went to 12 rounds the numbers were favoring zavek.

[BostonGuy]

Finally...........


Instead of all the Berto negativity there is a glimpse this seems to be vastly overlooked in that there have been numerous other examples fairly recently in which fighters and corners had the mentatlity of you can still win it go on out and make it happen seems that Zavek corner didn't believe this to be the case and erroed on the side of caution but to reliquish your belt that quickly is dissappointing

I'm all for protecting your fighter from getting seriously hurt but this is prize fighting after all - fighters are gonna get swollen eyes, cuts, bumps, bruises, you name it. It's like Zaveck's corner didn't even try to work on the eye to reduce the swelling. I'm disappointed in the way they just gave up; especially in light of what was transpiring in the last few rounds. Zavec was having some success fighting inside and the fight may or may not having been turning around in his favor...

[iPhoneKiller]

Majority of you dudes are little b1tches. You cry about absolutely anything if your guy doesn't get the win. Stop watching boxing, it will save you some headaches.

Says the fool who supports American fighters like a fool fool.

[Grinderman]

It was a headbutt, the Slovenian was winning the fight as the punch stats showed, even if the HBO crew was trying very hard to pretend otherwise.

[TheZero]

Yes, it is a shame that Zaveck's corner has ended the fight. Zaveck was clearly up for another round as he said, but the corner has called it over.

However, it has to be said, that it was a headbut which has caused a major damage under Zaveck's right eye. Even after the corner has "finished" his work from the fifth round, Zaveck could not see anything through his right eye. It is true that Zaveck's cutman does not have a clue about what he is doing, but the damage was pretty bad. Zaveck would of risked a lot, if he has continued.

However, i still think that he would have a chance, if he would of survived the sixth round without anymore damage being caused to his face. Zaveck is a mature and big hearted fighter, who knows what he is doing. Anyway, nobody is to blame there, it was an unfortunate event, which has caused this fight to result in a TKO. We could see a very interesting fight, if there would be no headbut.

[PinoyZoi]

He thought he was Timothy Bradley for a moment!

[chiguy91]

idk, dude's eyelids were cut, i wouldn't think berto's shots were capable of that. either way, berto won the belt, there is nothing anyone could do about it now. i hope they give him a rematch, i would like to see how the later rounds would play out. that, or an american fight with a top WW, that'd be good. i hope we see zaveck in the states again.

[chiguy91]

I'm all for protecting your fighter from getting seriously hurt but this is prize fighting after all - fighters are gonna get swollen eyes, cuts, bumps, bruises, you name it. It's like Zaveck's corner didn't even try to work on the eye to reduce the swelling. I'm disappointed in the way they just gave up; especially in light of what was transpiring in the last few rounds. Zavec was having some success fighting inside and the fight may or may not having been turning around in his favor...

zaveck had a big cut on his eyelid, and the swelling was getting worse under his eye, he would have fought berto with one eye. i think his left eye was cut as well, not too sure. i'm not sure if it was a headbutt or punch, but i've never recalled anyone getting their eyelid cut clean like a straight line recently like this one, from a punch.

[Troav]

I was impressed with what I saw out of Zaveck. He gained a fan last night. It looked like he was coming on strong as the fight went on. To be honest I think he would of pulled off the win. I felt bad that he lost his title the way he did. Hopefully we see a rematch, because I don't think it's right to go out on a loss like that.