Is Boxing Going Soft??

[Elproblema]

I bet most people here defending the early stoppages are the same ones crying about Richard Steele stopping the Chavez vs Taylor fight claiming he should have let Taylor continue.

[extracurRICular]

It is going soft. The ref should have waited longer to stop the Kovalev- Pascal fight. He got hit 2 hard punches in a row. Big deal. Fighters have come back from that many times. I am sure Kovalev would have finished him so two fighters get robbed. Kovalev gets robbed of a clear KO win and has to listen to Pascal saying he would have gone on to win the fight. What is worse is when a fighter is knocked down the ref gives him all these tests and asks him all these questions before letting the fight continue. This gives the fighter lots of recovery time to clear his head and often robs the fighter who knocked him down of a chance to finish him. It makes the Dempsey-Tunney long count look short by comparison.

so many bleeding hearts son!

[Grimmer]

It is going soft. The ref should have waited longer to stop the Kovalev- Pascal fight. He got hit 2 hard punches in a row. Big deal. Fighters have come back from that many times. I am sure Kovalev would have finished him so two fighters get robbed. Kovalev gets robbed of a clear KO win and has to listen to Pascal saying he would have gone on to win the fight. What is worse is when a fighter is knocked down the ref gives him all these tests and asks him all these questions before letting the fight continue. This gives the fighter lots of recovery time to clear his head and often robs the fighter who knocked him down of a chance to finish him. It makes the Dempsey-Tunney long count look short by comparison.

It was more like 8....Kovalev slipped before the last two giving Pascal vital recovery time and Kovalev still managed to stroll straight back over and land two undefended and unanswered power shots. What do you want? The guy unconscious on the floor with an oxygen mask on? He was done by that last combo before Kovalev's slip, the ease at which Kovalev landed those last two punches clearly showed that, Pascal didn't move out of the corner or raise his hands to guard the shots, he was a sitting duck. Anymore punches could have done serious damage.

[Barcham]

It is going soft. The ref should have waited longer to stop the Kovalev- Pascal fight. He got hit 2 hard punches in a row. Big deal. Fighters have come back from that many times. I am sure Kovalev would have finished him so two fighters get robbed. Kovalev gets robbed of a clear KO win and has to listen to Pascal saying he would have gone on to win the fight. What is worse is when a fighter is knocked down the ref gives him all these tests and asks him all these questions before letting the fight continue. This gives the fighter lots of recovery time to clear his head and often robs the fighter who knocked him down of a chance to finish him. It makes the Dempsey-Tunney long count look short by comparison.

You are an idiot.


Australian boxer Brayd Smith dies two days after defeat

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=670741

If the ref had allowed the fight to continue, we could just as easily have been reading a headline today that stated Canadian boxer Jean Pascal dies two days after defeat. I guess that would have made you really happy and thirsting to watch Kovalev's next fight. ****** ass.

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You are an idiot.


Australian boxer Brayd Smith dies two days after defeat

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=670741

If the ref had allowed the fight to continue, we could just as easily have been reading a headline today that stated Canadian boxer Jean Pascal dies two days after defeat. I guess that would have made you really happy and thirsting to watch Kovalev's next fight. ****** ass.

Idiots gonna idiot..................

[The Gambler1981]

I will admit I am a blood thirsty ghoul, I love boxing and love to watch the men fight and bet on them as if they were objects looking at them cold and calculating.


But some of ya'll mother ****ers got me beat hands down.

[Hougigo]

Mad about the pascal stoppage? Hear what happened to Braydon smith this weekend?
So pascal staking around then taking flush shots before the stoppage? With those conditions, better to be five seconds early than five seconds late

[extracurRICular]

Mad about the pascal stoppage? Hear what happened to Braydon smith this weekend?
So pascal staking around then taking flush shots before the stoppage? With those conditions, better to be five seconds early than five seconds late

I can dig it..............

[hhs661]

I typically don't complain about early stoppages unless it's blatant bs. But no one has a better view than the ref. They see their eyes, their attempts at fighting back and defending so at that point it's basically up to the ref to stop it or not because most boxers, no matter how much they've been beaten, will not give up

[MrRolltide91]

Mad about the pascal stoppage? Hear what happened to Braydon smith this weekend?
So pascal staking around then taking flush shots before the stoppage? With those conditions, better to be five seconds early than five seconds late

exactly.......