The Corner Has The Right To Stop The Fight at ANYTIME!

[Evol]

I've never complained about a corner stoppage. Even one by Buddy "I'm stoppin it baby" Mcgirt.

Corner stoppages are part of the game for a reason. A fighter's job should be to fight until the option to fight is taken out of his hands. Anything else doesn't look good on that fighter. Its part of blood sports.

i get what u're saying but my point is that the round was already over. the ref had a chance to asked mike first so why not?? this is a championship match with mike being the champ if u forgot. i can see your point if the round was still going and the corner came up to stop it but the ref just ignores it.

[Superman22]

I think it's because he complained about the first rios fight being stopped too early, ref just didn't wamt any excuse this time.

[Syf]

i get what u're saying but my point is that the round was already over. the ref had a chance to asked mike first so why not?? this is a championship match with mike being the champ if u forgot. i can see your point if the round was still going and the corner came up to stop it but the ref just ignores it.

I think it was obvious from his body language and him not protesting the stoppage that he was ok with it. Making him say it himself is humiliating. Now, if he was protesting loudly the stoppage and chomping at the bit to get back out there, that's one thing, but the writing was on the wall, and Weeks made Alvarado say he was quitting in front of millions, as opposed to letting his corner do the dirty work. It definitely lowered his stock.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

I thought the corner were trying to say he was ok?

[Syf]

I thought the corner were trying to say he was ok?

nah the corner indicated they wanted to stop it, and weeks said "No" and went and asked Alvarado personally. Thats what happened.

[FeFist]

I wonder if he was instructed to allow a brutal slugfest in light of the attention that has been placed on Gatti v Ward? What the referee did was disgusting in my honest opinion, I can understand asking for the fighter's opinion in circumstances where the corner are trying to sabotage their fighter ( which I cannot recall happening), but in situations where one guy is taking a beating, the corner's wishes should be respected. It was unnecessary to damage Alvarado's pride by making him say 'I can't go on', it actually angers me.

[TheMexHurricane]

Mike could've been too ashamed to agree with his corner in front of his hometown crowd and gotten killed. According to a wiki source almost half of all boxing deaths since 1980 involve a Mexican fighter dying or a Mexican fighter killing another fighter. In 3 cases it involved a Mexican fighter killing another Mexican fighter. The fame is flattering and the money is fantastic but foolish cornermen and refs like Tony Weeks have to do better or else it's better that boxing be banned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Deaths_due_to_injuries_sustained_in_boxing

[lebrick]

only the ref can stop the fight... it's clear on the introduction

[TheMexHurricane]

I think it's because he complained about the first rios fight being stopped too early, ref just didn't wamt any excuse this time.

The refs get payed great money for having a tremendously fun job so they shouldn't make saving face a priority over a fighter's life. Besides it would've been on the corner and not on Tony Weeks.

[JDezi4]

ONLY THE REFEREE CAN STOP THE FIGHT... Did Lederman say that? I don't remember

If that rule is applied than the corner's only involvement in stopping the fight is "by the suggestion of the corner"