Comments Thread For: Referee Explains Why He Saved Lemieux From Golovkin

[turnedup]

I'm on about wanting to see GGG in a competitive fight, which is obviously Ward. I mentioned also wanting to see Ward in competitive fights too, which of course would be GGG and Kovalev, I won't mention Beterbiev, Fonfara and Adonis due to the network conflicts. The topic is about GGG, I want GGG to face Ward.

Lets try to be real clear here so the GGG fanboys can wrap their heads around it, I'm neither a fan boy of either Ward or GGG, yet I enjoy watching both. You guys desperate for Ward to move up have genuine fears he'd beat GGG, why would you not want to see your favourite fighter in competitive fights instead of one sided mis matches, it's bizarre, it's almost like an admission you're afraid he will lose.

I have no agenda here as I'm neutral, you guys are the ones who give GGG moderate supporters a bad name with your cringeworthy behaviour, Barcham and Golovkin especially. Those guys should be up for ****** of the Year, I'll have to amend the poll.

You guys? Let's get one thing straight bucko you got me all sorts of fkd up, the fact remains I voice my opinion on the guy because of the flat out disrespect he gets. He's a champion and entitled to the respect of someone to earn that title. Now onto cringeworthy behavior, that works both ways. It's absolutely hilarious to see all these people talking about Ward, Ward, Ward...Ward is one man. Ward sat at 160 his entire career just like this guy has so far, as I have said plenty of times here there is a ton of hypocrisy towards golovkin simply because of his complexion and nationality whether folks don't want to admit or a just plum ****** to not realize it. With that said outside of the super 6 Ward himself has not truly been tested either. I truly hope Ward thrives at 175 and then when he's one fight away from a unification bout have people turn around and say "well go fight this cruiser weight". It is flat out abysmal the double standards this site has posed onto this one fighter for practically doing the same exact thing Ward has done since going pro.

[Hougigo]

Looked bad live
Able to come home and watch the replay.

Don't look to the ref in pain if you don't want something to happen, that body shot rekt him

[KidDinamita]

No, wasn't a bad stoppage IMO, he was looking at the referee few seconds before the ref stopped the fight. If you look at the referee it means you do not want to fight anymore.

If I was the referee I would have stopped it as well.

[jas]

this referee made a terrible deicision when ggg hit him while he was down

he acknowledges ggg hit him while he was down then still proceeds to give the 10 count

so if lemiux doesnt get up we now have huge controversy

what he should have done is use common sense and his own discretion to give lemiux extra time to recover

if you wanna go by the rule book, ggg should have been disqualified because ggg began throwing the punch AFTER lemiux took a knee

but that would have gone against the spirit of a ppv main event fight and one of boxings biggest stars so i dont think a dq would have been the right decision in this instance . ggg only realised right after the punch that he landed a punch whilst his opponent was on the canvas

but for the referee not to give lemiux extra time is devoid of any common sense

i dont care how cool this dudes eyes look.

horrific biased refereeing.

[Raonic]

I like Lemieux and think he still had a strong puncher's chance but if you saw the replay, Lemieux got hit with a body shot that you can see left him wide open. If ref didn't stop it then, GGG gives him 4-5 flush shots and it would be fair to stop the fight then. Why bother waiting for 4-5 flush shots like that to stop it?