Where is the outrage over the Bradley-Vargas fight? i thought id see several threads

[baya]

Man if it were Floyd corruption would be thrown around like left hooks from Tito..The announcers would have been much harder on the ref and the media would be killing Floyd.

that was pretty good, bro.

[baya]

bad call from a great ref.

i don't think it affected the outcome of the fight, but it was definitely a bad call at the worst possible time.

lots of things go into the lack of outrage. the biggest one is that people aren't huge on vargas. he's been in bad fights, and he's had some close calls go his way.


i thought it was a good fight. i was pleasantly surprised.

for as much as i'm convinced that vargas wouldn't have KO'd him, pat jacked me still, yo.

[lefthook2daliva]

So that means you can take the final 10 seconds from a fighter with a low ko percentage when he has his foe on ***** street?? That 35 percent ko fighter hurt and almost dropped Bradley with 1 shot,who's to say 1 more would not have dropped him

What I'm getting at is that if you KO your foe 3.5/10 and this occurs it's not as bad as it is when you KO your foe KO 9/10.

I would be much more worked up if the same thing happened to GGG, because then all these wild and slightly whiny statements by the offended party (in this case Vargas) would have far more merit and be far less puto.

[jas]

Like I said before, it comes with the territory.

vargas is a young, hungry lion

[Larry the boss]

taylor was already a bloody mess, and had been eating hard counterpunches from a hall of famer.


after the fight he pissed blood, and by all accounts was never really the same fighter or man.

apples and oranges.

So if Ward was Vargas,you wouldnt complain?

[SlySlickSmooth]

There's nothing to explain here. In this era people just happen to dislike Vargas because of his style, opposition faced, or whatever reason. People like Bradley for what he gave in the Provo fight and became a fan favorite and he is good guy. There's no real reason to hate Vargas as well but that's just what it is.

Boxing fans are extremely fickle but I think most people would agree Bradley would of survived so they just roll with it. Vargas needed a KO/TKO within 7-8 seconds because it was mathematically impossible for him to win with just 1 knockdown.

[New England]

So if Ward was Vargas,you wouldnt complain?

i'm not like you, larry. sorry.

[SlySlickSmooth]

One thing I don't know is, when was the 10 second clap/noise introduced?

If there's a verbal 10 second warning to the ref in 1990 then Steele should of heard it and knew that knockdown count was practically the fight. He stopped it because he didn't get a response from Taylor.

The difference here is Taylor was stopped on a knockdown count whereas Bradley/Vargas were still fighting on the inside because Bradley didn't actually go down.

[soul_survivor]

But i see hardly anyone mentioning it,Imagine if it was Floyd and he was hurt like that and the ref stopped the fight like that. Man the site would crash

cmon now, why you clutching at straws?

actually, do you even know what that expression means?

[baya]

it sucks that sometimes in this fight game, you need to lose to make a fan.

i'm a big vargas fan, he got that grit in him that lasts until the last round of a fight against a solid HOF candidate.