Bad stoppage, but Groves would have been stopped

I haven't seen the fight, yet, but I backed Groves to win, so hearing that it was a bad stoppage really pisses me off!

 

I seem to remember his head and flopping rolling worryingly when Froch connected from the 6th on.
From about the 6th on the tide was slowly turning.
It was becoming an inside fight (as all fights do as the boxers tire late on)....and Groves has no inside game...sorry Furey!

Do I remember in the round or two before the stoppage the ref interrupting a Froch barrage, and giving Groves a break??

In any case the REAL chancers were the 2 judges.
The ref was operating in the heat of the moment - they were cold bloodedly depriving Groves of points he deserved...THAT is the REAL story of this fight, the JUDGES not the ref...
That is what needs looking into IMO.

 

I'm not making excuses for the ref but if you re-watch it in the 9th groves throws 2 weak punches in 50 secs of punishment by froch - not saying they all landed.

So i can kind of forgive the stopage its the score cards thats the problem.

will we have needed the scored cards, we will never know

 

All we can do is speculate how the fight may have progressed if the fight wasn't stopped. I believe Groves would have made out of the round. He was hurt on a few occasions, and would regain his composure again, and start to box. He kept getting involved in tear ups which cost him the fight.

Would have been interesting if Groves survived the round though.

 

'Forgive the stoppage'? What the hell is going on here?

 

Can't remember fully, but didn't groves win 6 & 7? With Froch nicking the 5th and possibly the 8th?

Hardly a momentum change, is it.

 

casuals buying the hearn and froch camp crap as per

 

The stoppage and the judges decisions stink. How is that possible how can that be stopped in that fashion as a fighter I would be happy that I won but understand and whole heartily admit that it wasn't right that's where respect is earned. Not bullshitting and saying its a fair stoppage. If they rematch Groves will win.

 

Groves rocked Froch in the 9th round too, he wasn't even really all that hurt, he woulda recovered and regrouped inbetween rounds, I gave round 5 to Froch (the only round up to the 9th I actually gave him) and then in round 6 Groves came out blazing!! For all we know he woulda done the same in Round 10, but he was robbed of the chance to do it and we were robbed of the chance to see it.

 

Froch won round 8 IMO, did well in round 7 as well but lost it. round 7 is when this fight slowly turned into Froch's kind of fight. Groves was fading but we don't know how he would have done in the remaining rounds because the ref spoiled it. Its all guess work.

I think Froch would have got a legit stoppage but no one knows for sire and Groves deserved a chance to stay in the fight IMO in that 9th round.

 

I don't think Froch did come back all that well - emphasis on 'well'? Isn't it more the case that he made a onesided fight moderately more competitive in the later rounds? I thought Groves was still producing the quality work. I really don't see this 'momentum' change that people are banging on about.

 

Yeah sure, I get that, but to some people that amounts to a momentum change? Pretty sure Groves was doing the same in the 6th?