HBO thinks Demarco-Molina was a bad stoppage?

[#1Assassin]

it was a correct stoppage, no doubt about that. a fight isnt stopped depending on how hurt a fighter is, its stopped depending on how good a job he does of intelligently defending himself.

squatting down and covering up in the corner with no attempt to clinch, punch back or get of the ropes while punches are raining down isnt intelligently defending yourself at all and forces the ref to stop the fight even if you really isnt all that hurt.

[Bronard]

On top of that, DeMarco looked insanely unhealthy at the weigh in and one thing we all know is...Molina has is a punch, I'm not saying he would have won but his chances were pretty damn good.

You're obviously being bias. They both looked the same at the weigh ins and DeMarco is a skinny dude with big cheeks. Just admit that you're mad cause Molina lost. The fighter didn't do his job so the ref did his.



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[Doctor_Tenma]

You're obviously being bias. They both looked the same at the weigh ins and DeMarco is a skinny dude with big cheeks. Just admit that you're mad cause Molina lost. The fighter didn't do his job so the ref did his.



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Admit what? I'm anything but a fan of Molina, not my style of preference, I'm more into defensive fighters. Simply expressing how shitty the stoppage was. While both didn't look good at the weigh in, DeMarco looked far worse.

[Malius]

It looked like the roof was collapsing on him for what seemed like a long time I haven't watched the replay, or in 10x slowed down.

But if he was in the right frame of mind he could of at least taken a knee, but he stayed hunkered down like it was hailing baseballs.

[gmc_rfc_06]

It was a ****** decision from Molina, the correct one from the ref.

Molina wasn't in a position of being unable to continue physically, in fact he was fine. He simply made a ****** decision to duck and cover which saw a good 15-20 punches go unanswered and left the ref no choice. All he had to do was move, clinch or take a knee and it wouldn't have happened.

[Vasyl’s dad]

Not a bad stoppage when no punches are being thrown back.

[T-97]

bad stoppage or not, real boxing fans know why it happened


you blame the ref? really? dude is squatting not doing anything..he's a pro, he should know how to get out of that..if he brain farted, that's on him



HBO thinks it's bad because they had to kill an extra 20mins of airtime

Exactly.

Everyone keeps saying, "He's a pro, in a world title fight, he deserved more respect". Well, maybe a world level fight should think to take a knee rather than squat on the rope and cover up?

I agree Molina wasn't exactly badly hurt, but he wasn't doing anything to make the referee give him the benefit of the doubt.

[-Hyperion-]

No, the ref was right there, he couldn't have missed the fact that Molina wasn't taking any kind of punishment. What happened to a standing 8 count? That was a horrible stoppage to me, but oh well, not much can be done now. Kind of fucked up to go through a tough training camp and get fucked over like that.

theres no standing 8 count under unified rules...if you separate them, you have to stop it...Molina's fault for not throwing back and looking so awkward....

[BostonGuy]

Bad bad stoppage. Molina wasn't hurt at all and was crouched down and ducking most of Demarco's punches. He was in an awkward position no doubt but the punches were just skimming off the top of his gloves and barely coming into contact with is head. Refs need to give fighters a chance to regain their composure unless they are clearly out and defenseless - Molina was neither.

How many times have we seen a fighter who's experienced a flash knockdown or several flash knockdowns, but has come back to win the fight or least be competitive? This was a total b.s. stoppage in every way shape or form.

[Russian Crushin]

Hell yea it was a bad stoppage, and it was all the refs fault.

Fighters are NOT allowed to bend below the waist, so once Molina bent below Demarco's waist, he is committing a foul and the action must be stopped and the fighters separated, and that fighter warned

But no, the ref let him squat there for like 10 seconds while demarco punched the top of his head and then stopped it