he should have taken the 8 count. but he let his ego get the best of him. tried to get up like he was not but he was still dizzy.
How many times does this need to be said? The Ref had NO CHOICE, the rules state if you get up then fall back down it's an automatic stoppage. It's like saying 'I think the Ref stopped it too early. Had he given him 15 seconds to stand up instead of 10 he would have been fine to continue." Nobody to blame but Zab.
I admit my ignorance in stating that i didn't know of that rule. Really it says exactly that :!: ? But... so, according to this rule, Bradley should have been stopped in the first round against Provodnikov? He got up, and then he backflipped :huh This rule is dangerous! And i don't think it's really fair and balanced: what matters is that someone is stably enough standing at the 10th count, you can dance the polka in the meantime.
Problem is, it wasn't called a knockdown, wich it clearly was... and it could have been a KO if it had been ruled correctly. "That's why I never fight in the US", would Ward say :!:
Zab's post-fight victory celebrations certainly were. He was acting like a complete lunatic in there. Tszyu hit him so hard he actually thought he'd won the fight. lol
I think he could have possibly beat the count if he had taken his time. I'm pretty sure it's actually in the rules though that the ref has to stop the fight if a fighter falls down twice from the same knockdown. Good stoppage, regardless.
I might be remembering this wrong but I think the ref had his back turned when Bradley fell down the 2nd time.
I don't even think it was his ego, I think it was the punch. It knocked any sense he might have had out of him, he didn't know what he was doing.