Anybody else a little disturbed by how ESPN handled what was going on with Dadashev?

[Mammoth]

The cameramen really had to follow him to the ambulance? And then once we found out how bad his condition is they replay all of the footage of him struggling to walk, etc.? A bit unnecessary to me.

[_Rexy_]

I must have the luckiest luck of just refilling my coffee or going to the washroom between the right rounds or something, because I missed all of that and only caught a brief "medical update" when coming back from the washroom at one point.


But if they did show that, it's pretty bad. Kind of like how it's in bad taste to show a play that injured a guy on the scoreboard while he's still down injured.

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

I seen nothing wrong with it to be honest.

[Redd Foxx]

When they hide it, that's worse. They didn't turn it into anything juicy. I think they were just being transparent. I've seen where they avoid talking about it and that looks sketchy AF. Like they're trying to hide the tragic elements of the sport.

[PRchamp]

It was hard to watch and hearing Bradley and Ward talk about what Dadashev was going through really put me in that position.

Max was struggling with words and you can see he couldn’t described what was air.

Teofilo Lopez Pop’s saying a racist word was also aired live.

This has happened before on HBO and Showtime but they never aired any fighter in such bad condition.

[Robbie Barrett]

It was hard to watch and hearing Bradley and Ward talk about what Dadashev was going through really put me in that position.

Max was struggling with words and you can see he couldn’t described what was air.

Teofilo Lopez Pop’s saying a racist word was also aired live.

This has happened before on HBO and Showtime but they never aired any fighter in such bad condition.

What racist word did he say?

[MulaKO]

I thought replaying him looking wobbly and all at the end was bad
And then saying for those who hadn’t witnessed what happened earlier and replaying the beating the guy got in the ring was a little dirty
Should of just ended it with the update without trying to sell it

[MulaKO]

When they hide it, that's worse. They didn't turn it into anything juicy. I think they were just being transparent. I've seen where they avoid talking about it and that looks sketchy AF. Like they're trying to hide the tragic elements of the sport.

I actually thought that they were trying to turn it into something juicy by showing the replay
Should of just killed it with the update imo

[Redd Foxx]

I actually thought that they were trying to turn it into something juicy by showing the replay
Should of just killed it with the update imo

I tuned in right when they showed the replay and, to me, it was informative and heartfelt. I'm definitely not someone who needs the gory details but I felt they were being responsible. They probably could have cut it off before showing the ambulance stuff as that was rough to watch but when you're editing live TV, it's hard to get all those decisions 100% perfect.

I can understand some people being bothered by it though. It's not something we've been traditionally exposed to in live boxing.

[DaNeutral.]

What racist word did he say?

He used the N word but he wasnt being racist. They have just labelled it racist this time because of the colour of Lopez. I watched a Broner interview the other day and he used the same word about 96 times in 5 minutes.