was joshua klitchko fight stopped prematurely

[hugh grant]

Wlad was intelligently defending himself, whilst not exactly attacking back. But many defense experts make a career out of that.
Josh tried koing wlad earlier in fight around the 5th round and punched himself out doing so was gassed in 6th.
Josh was missing a lot in 11th so gassing out again isn't far fetched.
Although I don't want anyone getting hurt I would say it was stopped prematurely.
The only reason you could say stoppage was OK was that wlad had been down twice earlier in round. But let's imagine you didn't know that and you just saw highlights of stoppage you'd be thinking why the hell was it stopped wklad didn't look in trouble. He was just trying to avoid his head being taken clean off shoulders.
So we'd all resemble wlad

[The Time]

I have no problem with the referee jumping in to save Klitschko.

He was hurt and dropped twice and wasn't throwing back as he did when he got knocked down in the 5th. As Malignaggi mentioned during the live broadcast, Klitschko had nothing left by that time in the 11th to keep Joshua off of him, he was done.

Good Stoppage