Comments Thread For: No Real Controversy in Dereck Chisora’s Knockout Win

[Jam Jars]

He clearly got 1 more second. So why didn't he count to 10 like in the pulev fight? Its not the same, Scott has absolutely no time to get up after he said 9, he went into an immediate wave whereas if he did the pulev wave, he would have been up. Why does the rule book say the ref must count to 10 and then wave then?

You don't even know the basics, everyone knows a fight ends on 10 and not a moment longer.

[Russian Crushin]

You don't even know the basics, everyone knows a fight ends on 10 and not a moment longer.

Exactly, not at 9 like in the scott fight. Thank you

[Russian Crushin]

You don't even know the basics, everyone knows a fight ends on 10 and not a moment longer.

I dont know the basics yet its "9 and out" in the BBBC rule book and the wave is a substitute for a 10

[Jam Jars]

I dont know the basics yet its "9 and out" in the BBBC rule book and the wave is a substitute for a 10

Explain how would Scott have gotten extra time if the ref said 10 instead of waving.

[HeroBando]

Refs can stop the count whenever they want. It's really nothing unusual. Check out Wlad vs Mormek and you'll see the ref stopping the fight on the count of 8 even though Mormek stood up. He read the fighter and deemed him unfit to continue.

Exactly, it often gets called called early to save the fighter from himself. Here no such thing, Scott was perfectly fine, totally safe to continue.

[Russian Crushin]

Explain how would Scott have gotten extra time if the ref said 10 instead of waving.

Because his wave came immediately after 9, he was not given the last second. its easy to see in the video they show it in slow mo, he says 9 and waves immediately

[Russian Crushin]

Refs can stop the count whenever they want. It's really nothing unusual. Check out Wlad vs Mormek and you'll see the ref stopping the fight on the count of 8 even though Mormek stood up. He read the fighter and deemed him unfit to continue.

Yea but the ref officially counted him out. And when a ref does that he must count to 10. A ref can stop the fight anytime he wants but he cannot change a 10 count to a 9 count

[HeroBando]

Explain how would Scott have gotten extra time if the ref said 10 instead of waving.

You're double wrong here. First you're wrong about the count, that's obvious to anyone not blinded with bias. But you're also going against the spirit of the rule to push some agenda: a good ref will not look for any technicality to hurt the figher (almost always out-of-towner), much less stretch the rules to do that. In the first category you have such fan favorites as Marlon Wright and the guy from Kirkland Molina.

[Jam Jars]

Because his wave came immediately after 9, he was not given the last second. its easy to see in the video they show it in slow mo, he says 9 and waves immediately

9>wave
9>10

Both signal the end of the fight how would he have gained anything from the ref saying 10?

[Russian Crushin]

"The rule is "9 and out"