Would Bradley have been KO'd in the first round if a knockdown had been called?

[BafanaBafana]

What do you guys think? Discuss.

[LeG00N]

Ref should've waved the fight off about 3 times. Ruslan got robbed

[TouchyAndalou]

No, if anything he would have had slightly more time to recover.

It should have been ruled a knockdown however.

[LeG00N]

No, if anything he would have had slightly more time to recover.

It should have been ruled a knockdown however.

He fell down twice. If it would've been called a knock down that's a TKO

Ruslan got robbed of a TKO 1

[madhive]

I think it should of been a TKO win for Provodnikov. Bradley basically did the same thing Zab did stand up and fall down again still showing signs of being hurt. Then when he got up again he stumbled back into the ropes a clear TKO to me if the ref made the right call of a knockdown.

[BafanaBafana]

I think it should of been a TKO win for Provodnikov. Bradley basically did the same thing Zab did stand up and fall down again still showing signs of being hurt. Then when he got up again he stumbled back into the ropes a clear TKO to me if the ref made the right call of a knockdown.

I agree. I feel the ref really did Prodovnikov a disservice, had he counted the first knockdown Ruslan would have won by TKO. Had the ref counted both the knockdown in the first (and somehow didn't call a TKO) and the one in the second, then Ruslan would have also won on the scorecards.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

Ruslan was ROBBED one way or another. Whether it was on the cards or whether he was robbed of KD's.

[noStylez]

That ref usually stops early but it turned out to be a great fight, I think it could have been stopped. edit, but yes if it was called a KD then it would have been stopped.

[Augustane]

No, because it would've only given Bradley more time to recover. He definitely would've been KO'd had Ruslan done what he did in the 11th and 12th in the 4th and 5th instead.

[Manboyeatme]

Thread is a joke... Who would even think of this.