Sonny Bill Williams vs. Francois Botha RBR

[Hydro11]

Originally Posted by Vidic

IB please give me a quick summary of this fight (cant go throiug the whole thread right now)

SBW wins at least sevens of the first 8 rounds.

Round 9: SBW looks tired, Botha has been conserving his energy and starts landing some good shots. Botha gets a point deducted for excessive holding.

Round 10: SBW gets into big trouble and is holding on for dear life. He gets deducted a point which gives him a nice rest. Then the round ends and the fight is called over even though it was scheduled for 12 rounds. If the fight went into round 11 SBW was gone.

[Mr Butt]

Thanks for another buttastickly good RbR IB



Glad I changed my pick now

[Galaxy.]

What a f*ckin sh*t ref!

Sonny Bill should have won a a dq!

[TerryESB]

It sounds as though there was confusion in Botha's corner about the duration of the bout. It was just an honest mistake on their part thinking that it was 12 round fight.

[TheReal]

Originally Posted by TerryESB

It sounds as though there was confusion in Botha's corner about the duration of the bout. It was just an honest mistake on their part thinking that it was 12 round fight.

Sources are saying it was advertised as a 12 round match though..

[Galaxy.]

Botha is a disgrace!

[UnleashtheFURY]

Originally Posted by TerryESB

It sounds as though there was confusion in Botha's corner about the duration of the bout. It was just an honest mistake on their part thinking that it was 12 round fight.

You are one of the worst posters on this forum, EASILY.

[Galaxy.]

Originally Posted by TheReal

Sources are saying it was advertised as a 12 round match though..

No it wasn't

[Hydro11]

Originally Posted by TerryESB

It sounds as though there was confusion in Botha's corner about the duration of the bout. It was just an honest mistake on their part thinking that it was 12 round fight.

And the commentators, betting agencies, boxrec, everyone on these forums and the rest of the media were confused also? Isn't it easy to be confused when the announcer said the fight was scheduled for 12 rounds? Isn't it incredibly amateur that anyone is confused in such a situation?

[DemolitionDan]

Originally Posted by UnleashtheFURY

You are one of the worst posters on this forum, EASILY.

[Mr Butt]

Originally Posted by TerryESB

It sounds as though there was confusion in Botha's corner about the duration of the bout. It was just an honest mistake on their part thinking that it was 12 round fight.

Apparently tittle involved boxrec had it as a twelve rounder seems to of been changed just before the fight or during and perhaps botha's corner were not informed until during the fight

[Hydro11]

Originally Posted by Galaxy.

No it wasn't

Yes it was.

[Galaxy.]

Originally Posted by Hydro11

Yes it was.

Where?

[Hydro11]

Originally Posted by Mr Butt

Apparently tittle involved boxrec had it as a twelve rounder seems to of been changed just before the fight or during and perhaps botha's corner were not informed until during the fight

Botha can easily argue he went easy in the opening rounds because he was conserving energy for the later rounds. This is a straightforward thing and there should be no confusion.

[Mr Butt]

Originally Posted by Hydro11

Botha can easily argue he went easy in the opening rounds because he was conserving energy for the later rounds. This is a straightforward thing and there should be no confusion.

What do you think happened

Do you think Botha gets a rematch