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by David P. Greisman - The camera followed Brian Rose. So, too, did his trainer and a member of the security team at Winter Gardens, a venue in his northwestern England hometown of Blackpool. They could only follow, for Rose had kicked open a door and stormed forward.
He had left the ring before the result was announced, a first-round technical knockout at the hands of American journeyman Carson Jones. Or rather, as Rose felt, the stoppage came from the prematurely waving arms of referee Ian John-Lewis. Rose pushed a table over and kept walking, holding his still-gloved hands out for a few seconds, visibly upset. Rose kicked a plastic cone and soon arrived in his locker room, where he knocked another table down.
He couldn’t overturn what he’d angrily left behind, so instead he overturned whatever he saw in front of him.
In the moment, it was a devastating and frustrating defeat. The controversy will actually work out in his favor, however. It will buy him another shot at redemption. He still may not have much more after that. Rose’s shortcomings have been exposed over the past 16 months.
One loss can remove a boxer from contention just as one win can return him to prominence. Except these losses and wins do not carry equal weight. Nearly any loss will be a significant setback. Yet it takes a win on a certain level to make a man matter again. The more a fighter loses, the less often those opportunities present themselves.
Rose was a 13-0-1 prospect when he suffered a surprising technical knockout defeat against Max Maxwell, a designated opponent with a reputation for going rounds with his foes. At the time in 2009, Maxwell was 11-9-2. He’s now 19-47-3, with one stretch between September 2012 and April 2014 in which he fought 34 times in those 19 months, losing 33 in a row before pulling out a victory of his own. Maxwell [Click Here To Read More]
He had left the ring before the result was announced, a first-round technical knockout at the hands of American journeyman Carson Jones. Or rather, as Rose felt, the stoppage came from the prematurely waving arms of referee Ian John-Lewis. Rose pushed a table over and kept walking, holding his still-gloved hands out for a few seconds, visibly upset. Rose kicked a plastic cone and soon arrived in his locker room, where he knocked another table down.
He couldn’t overturn what he’d angrily left behind, so instead he overturned whatever he saw in front of him.
In the moment, it was a devastating and frustrating defeat. The controversy will actually work out in his favor, however. It will buy him another shot at redemption. He still may not have much more after that. Rose’s shortcomings have been exposed over the past 16 months.
One loss can remove a boxer from contention just as one win can return him to prominence. Except these losses and wins do not carry equal weight. Nearly any loss will be a significant setback. Yet it takes a win on a certain level to make a man matter again. The more a fighter loses, the less often those opportunities present themselves.
Rose was a 13-0-1 prospect when he suffered a surprising technical knockout defeat against Max Maxwell, a designated opponent with a reputation for going rounds with his foes. At the time in 2009, Maxwell was 11-9-2. He’s now 19-47-3, with one stretch between September 2012 and April 2014 in which he fought 34 times in those 19 months, losing 33 in a row before pulling out a victory of his own. Maxwell [Click Here To Read More]