Biggest Dive in recent memory: Malik Scott or Jeison Rosario

**Pac=Duran** · 09-27-2020, 04:20 PM

I never watched the fight but that looks awful lol

**SN!PER** · 09-27-2020, 04:37 PM

Looks like bladder/ stomach shot which is sometimes extremely painful.

Like Ward vs. Kovalev II, a legal blow on the belt line, but he couldn't recover.

**SN!PER** · 09-27-2020, 04:53 PM

And Malik got cracked by a quick left to the temple by the hardest puncher in boxing.

Didn't lose consciousness, but it destroyed his equilibrium similar to AJ vs. Ruiz 1 in the 3rd round.

**Zaryu** · 09-27-2020, 06:50 PM

The Malik KO looks suspect AF. But I have no doubt the Banana KO was legitimate.

**Randomum** · 09-27-2020, 07:05 PM

Banana was hit while breathing and he choked. You could see it while he was on the ground. He maybe couldve got up but took the out, he knew he wasnt gonna win by that point.

**PinkGod** · 09-27-2020, 07:26 PM

Malik actually got hit with a left hook first, so that’s kinda believable, Banana got hit on the protector after the shot was deflected by his elbow & acted like he was giving birth.

**Richard Hamilton** · 09-27-2020, 07:41 PM

You have definitely never boxed.

**Scopedog** · 09-28-2020, 04:51 AM

I think both look like dives (haven't seen Rosario-Charlo in full yet so maybe I'm missing some context.)

I think there's some difference though. Charlo's shot does seem to land at least a little bit and Rosario probably did feel it at least somewhat, even though it didn't look like a particularly damaging shot. He'd been down earlier on, was being well beaten and probably knew by that point that a comeback was unlikely, so it was probably more of a "I'm losing this fight and I want to quit" dive rather than the fight being fixed or any other kind of foul play along those lines. Still pretty shameful of him if that's true but not as bad as the alternative. I'm also willing to give him at least some benefit of the doubt that he actually was legit hurt, body shots can be weird like that sometimes.

The Scott one is just blatant. I know it's Wilder we're talking about and he hits like a nuke, but it didn't even look like one of Wilder's typical knockout shots, it looked more just like a quick and relatively light combo to either test Scott's guard or find range rather than actually trying to do damage. With that in mind, you can also see that the punches he throws don't even come close to landing clean, they graze off of his gloves and forearms and there's no conclusive evidence that Wilder's gloves even touch Malik's head. This is in round 1, not later on in the fight after rounds have passed and him losing is a foregone conclusion, Scott wasn't hurt prior to that, and wasn't injured or anything like that to my knowledge. Two possibilities here imo: 1: He came in terrified of Wilder's power and made up his mind that he'd go down the first chance he'd get and not get up to avoid actually getting hit for real, or 2: the fight's fixed or he's put money on himself to lose by KO in round 1. Both disgraceful, but more believable than his chin actually being that weak. When he fought Wilder he was like 36-1. I know that most of those guys were garbage but I assume that at least one or two of them could punch their way out of a wet paper bag, so surely he'd been hit reasonably hard a few times before that without keeling over the way he did in this fight.

**moochi** · 09-28-2020, 07:08 AM

Let's not forget the best dive of them all...Kermit Cintron vs Paul Williams...

Biggest Dive in recent memory: Malik Scott or Jeison Rosario