Comments Thread For: Groves Concerned With Gutknecht's Condition After Collapse

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BOXING champ George Groves has sent his support to opponent Eduard Gutknecht after he was rushed to hospital when he collapsed in his changing room. The 34-year-old German fell ill just minutes after the Brit scored a unanimous point win to defend his super-middleweight title in London last night.
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[cal202]

Fight should've been stopped after 8 or 9 rounds.

[NorvernRob]

Fight should've been stopped after 8 or 9 rounds.

Agreed, though there wasn't really a point where Groves was bombarding him with shots so I can kind of see why it wasn't stopped. Groves was landing heavy shots though with not much coming back, sometimes having a granite chin is a bad thing as a lot of fighters would have been dropped and out instead of taking a sustained beating. Gutknecht's corner should have pulled him out by round 10 at the latest.

That's why Amir Khan will walk away from boxing 100% healthy, he only ever takes one big shot per fight.

[PittyPat]

The fight had that depressing Nick Blackwell-esque feeling when Gutknecht kept getting pummelled from corner to corner. :conf3:

[Clegg]

"With respect to his privacy at a difficult time, here's some private info he might not want put out there but fuck it, it should hopefully get into the media and remind people I had a fight yesterday"

[Marvlus Marv]

Well done Terry O'Connor. Yet another entry of shame on his record. Everyone could see this fight should've been stopped around frame 9 or 10, yet he lets the guy take another 100 or so power shots. I'm still not convinced about Groves, though, I feel he's always going to be just shy of world title holder level - unless he gets a gimme - but nevertheless he's still going to be a tough fight for anyone at 168.

[Patsfan bri]

Maybe boxing needs to stop putting mediocre guys in there with high level guys . Maybe refs should stop one sided beatings sooner.

[NEETzsche]

Maybe boxing needs to stop putting mediocre guys in there with high level guys . Maybe refs should stop one sided beatings sooner.

yeah mismatches need to stop being sanctioned. if there's no competitive element, no real question of who will win, it's no longer a sport. there should be stricter guidelines for match-making. perhaps ranked contenders should only be allowed to face other ranked contenders

[bluepete]

Bad refereeing comes in part with from the kind of fans who feel cheated if a guy isn't smashed into the ground,or think that a fighter is a coward if he doesn't have his brains turned to mush.Sometime we all forget were watching human beings in there.

[BodiesInFlight]

Well done Terry O'Connor. Yet another entry of shame on his record. Everyone could see this fight should've been stopped around frame 9 or 10, yet he lets the guy take another 100 or so power shots. I'm still not convinced about Groves, though, I feel he's always going to be just shy of world title holder level - unless he gets a gimme - but nevertheless he's still going to be a tough fight for anyone at 168.

Surely a portion of the blame needs to go to his corner?
There didn't really seem like a perfect opportunity for the ref to stop it but why his corner kept sending him out after round 9 when he was taking a pasting and not throwing anything back.