Comments Thread For: Isiah Thomas: I Would Have Won, Gassiev Fouled Me

[HanzGruber]

Thomas was getting ground down and didn't have the power or skill to keep Gassiev off of him and he found a way out of the fight.

Round 1 all Thomas did was paw with his right and occasionally shoot his left into the gloves of Gassiev. Round 2 Gassiev briefly hurts Thomas, and both men start hitting each other more cleanly with Gassiev's shots having more effect. Round 3 continues with that trend, Thomas having more trouble keeping Gassiev off of him. I have laugh, no way Gassiev is getting a rematch.

wow some of you guys are just too ******... found a way out the fight?

[sicko]

No question he caught him with a Combo very late and is lucky he did not get DQ but I thought Gassiev would have knocked him out clean, Thomas was on the ropes way to much

[Derranged]

wow some of you guys are just too ******... found a way out the fight?

He couldn't recover from that punch in five minutes? He didn't even look all that hurt. And if he couldn't continue, isn't that abandonment?

Anyway, ****** move by Gassiev. I also believe its likely he would have won, Thomas had nothing. Funny though, Thomas kept holding his glove on Gassiev's face and repeatedly used his forearms and didn't get warned.

[Citizen Koba]

Really not getting it - didn't see the fight live but if the 'tube clips I've seen are accurately synched for sound I'm not really seeing that Gassievs final punch was any different to dozens of other 'on the bell' punches. Started throwing as the bell rang, landed a fraction of a second after - likely without even time to register the bell and attempt to pull the punch, but certainly without intent.

Of course, technically Nady had the right to act exactly as he did - and if Thomas was genuinely 'compromised' then a NC was not unreasonable, but I also think few (outside the Thomas camp) would have complained if Nady allowed the bout to continue as the initial punch was not an egregious foul and Thomas at least appeared to be fully capable of continuing.