Fury stoppage

rofl. was a **** stoppage. fury had a minute and recovered well. pakjic only had 30seconds left too last and was still throwing punches, who says he couldnt hit fury with a big right he had been doing it all night ffs. fury needs to bring that left hand up or develop some sorta of footwork or hes gonna get koed next fight.

 

One of the lamest strawman arguments I've ever seen.

 

It's funny how the bad stoppages are never in favour of the away fighter. I'm fed up with it to be honest. I just knew when Fury went down that as soon as he put a few punches together the ref would stop it.

 

Cheers, first time I've seen it... Fury looked badly out of shape in there.

 

I don't think it was bad at all. The guy's legs were gone and he couldn't defend himself

 

The stoppage wasn't that bad. Pajkic had been down twice and looked to be on unsteady legs. If it had gone on much longer and he'd got badly knocked out people would be complaining about the referee letting the fight go on too long.

 

Why change the habit of a lifetime!

 

Matey was ****ed, good stopage he was gonar get some more punishment, is there any point seeing a man get ****ing brutally stopped or pulled out before he does get proper ****ed over...

 

Yes. Because Fury KO'ing him - which, granted, was likely - is conjecture.

How many fights have we seen where someone takes a few knocks and looks primed to get put to sleep, only to turn it around and win? I know I've seen more than a few.

It's okay to say that's what he would have done, but the reality is Fury could himself have walked straight into another haymaker and been counted out.

The problem I have with the decision is that when Pajkic did land his shots, he was noticeably hurting Fury. That Pajkic knocked Fury down and rattled him a few times should work in his favour in these situations. There's absolutely nothing to say that Fury -- Who, lets be honest, has no defence -- wouldn't have been felled by a chance punch by Pajkic were the fight to continue.

I felt at the time that either man could win. I'm not convinced it was Fury's fight there and then.

 

I recall a Nigel Benn fight in which he'd been KO'd and was being savaged from one side of the ring to the other... He looked for all money to be candidate for another KO, but threw a wild, lunging, "**** it, i'll throw one!" type of left-hook and gave his opponent free V.I.P tickets to Disney Land. Was a thunderous and savage single punch that won him the fight.

That's just one example and it's a small example, but it's something that happens often in boxing. Although you wouldn't know it was a frequent occurrence from watching British boxing over the last few years as none of our referees would allow such a fight to go on.

As I mentioned in another thread, this culture of stopping fights like this is ultimately going to hurt British boxing. Because we're breeding a generation of fighters who are foreign to high-intensity, nothing-left-in-the-tank, wars. You need those fights to grow as a boxer. If we ween that killer instinct out of fighters and they depend on refs to step-in then we're never going to develop the plethora of world class talent that we once had.

 

It was against Anthony Logan. Once in a lifetime. Pajkic, with 5 career KOs, knackered, hurt and looking totally discouraged didn't have a hope in hell of doing that.

 

i agree,pajkic thought it was a joke,enough said

 

If he survived the round (which he very possibly could have done) and gets in to the next round, we just don't know what the guy is able to do. He can't possibly come back strong in round 4?

 

I think what saves Edwards from criticism here is that he let the guy continue after the first KD.

Even though it was blatantly obvious that he couldn't wait to step in there and then, it was only Fury knocking him down again that prevented a British stoppage.

After the 2nd KD he was pretty much done, it was probably the right call in the end.

If this was the first iffy/questionable (use what word you like) stoppage in the past few months there wouldn't be much said, but because we've seen some utterly terrible ones lately coupled with even worse judging, unless the referee is seen to be bang on in the eyes of everybody he comes in for a lot of stick.

Edwards, much like Foster is generally a bit quick on the stoppages, Keane and Davies are generally more accurate IMO.

Watched Hagler vs Hearns this morning, those two clowns would probably have stopped Hagler after Hearns landed that big uppercut that hurt Marvin and took his legs away for a split second.

 

I thought the ref was excellent all through the fight & it was a fair stoppage

Had Pajkic been brutally laid out at the of the 3rd then the ref would be at fault for letting it happen

Stopping a fight 5 seconds too early is always better than 5 sec too late. Its a brutal sport & Ive seen far too many horrible injuries & worse happen to guys in the state Pajkic was in.