Rios vs Chaves Eye Gouging Video

[TRTboy]

I woulda ripped his eye out had I been butted as many times as Chaves was

Nobody has ever accused rios of being dirty and I've never seen rios fighting dirty.

Chaves was holding both of rios arms in a way where there was no other place for rios head to be than to be right infront of chaves face or on his chest.

[DondiNeverLeft]

Two dirty fighters ...if we want to split hairs ...ok then

[SCEN3RY]

I feel like the split in this argument has more to do with how people feel about Rios, when in truth, Chaves' actions are indefensible against ANY fighter.

Your eyes are very fragile and quite sensitive, even the skin on your eyelids is thinnest than anywhere else on your body (1/500 an inch as opposed to an average thickness of 1/20 an inch elsewhere).

Boxing is supposed to be a gentleman's sport and that's hardly ever the case, but a line has to be drawn somewhere otherwise you're setting a bad influence for future fights. We're all disappointed the fight was stopped, but perhaps far worse was prevented. The referee, after all, is supposed to protect the fighters.

[Nicolino]

i see the glove closer to Rios mouth than his eyes...

[Bullrider]

Chaves was in survival mode, so he did every dirty trick he could think of to survive. Blame the ref for letting it happen. Fight should have been stopped early.

[Nicolino]

Chaves was in survival mode, so he did every dirty trick he could think of to survive. Blame the ref for letting it happen. Fight should have been stopped early.

No, he wasn't in survival mode. Actually he was winning the nine round pretty handily. I think he was unexpierence at this level and underestimated the ref warnings. I saw the opposite, i think he was overconfident towards the end of the fight when he should have stopped with dirty tactics. Rios was pretty much done in the last rounds as he usually does.

[Bigg Rigg]

Nobody has ever accused rios of being dirty and I've never seen rios fighting dirty.

Chaves was holding both of rios arms in a way where there was no other place for rios head to be than to be right infront of chaves face or on his chest.

Dude, Rios was ramming his head into Chaves every time he got in close.

[TheUglyness]

Dude, Rios was ramming his head into Chaves every time he got in close.

It has been explained why that happens. With both arms tied up, there is no where else for the head to go.

[#1Assassin]

lol @ the headlock/eye gouge/DDT combo

that even beats holyfield old low blow/headbutt combination.

[Bigg Rigg]

It has been explained why that happens. With both arms tied up, there is no where else for the head to go.

The butts happen before Chaves tied him up. Rios goes in with head, hits him with it and then gets cliched.