Radio Rahim Makes Important Point about Bud's Low Blow

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Fast forward to (4:48) when he makes this point . . .

He talks about how getting hit low on the side of the cup is worse than getting hit square on in the center of the cup. And they both seem to believe that's exactly where Khan got hit, in the worst spot possible.

This thought crossed my mind as well that the punch may have hit the side of the cup, but it's just hard to see since you can't see exactly where the cup is. Personally I thought it may have hit the lower abdomen, and since Khan was moving forward it had so much impact that it was a damaging blow. But Rahim and MJP seem to believe that it did hit the side of the cup. And to anyone who hears this and says "it didn't hit the side or the edge of the cup", is Rahim and MJP just completely wrong about that, and if you doubt what they are saying how do you know for sure that it didn't hit the side of the cup?

 

Because Kovalev was hurt badly and hunched over in agony about to be stopped from legal / borderline shots, not a blatant low blow. As I've admitted, the final shot from Ward was low, but due to Kovalev's posture all hunched over it wasn't blatantly aimed low like Bud's was. It also wasn't done at a time where his opponent was tagging him and starting to get into a rhythm like Khan was to Bud.

 

But so many people have ignored this possibility, Bud himself even laughed at the idea when Khan said he was hit in the balls in the post fight. Now if I brought it up on my own I would probably get mocked, but when I heard Radio Rahim bring it up I had to share it, because it was something that crossed my mind right away but it's hard to be certain of it. I need to hear how some of the Khan haters react to this point from Radio Rahim.

 

It's not a matter of what I want. Winning by low blow is not as good as winning by a clean punch to the face and knocking a dude clean out. If you are trying to act like TC's win was better than Canelo's win over Khan, then it's you who is desperate to dispute the fact that Canelo's win was better.

 

Are you going to deny that right before the low blow Khan landed a big one-two that sent Crawford crashing back into the ropes? Are you seriously going to deny that happened, becuase I can post a GIF if needed.

 

Well to that point, yeah Khan was a little shaky after that knockdown, he was nervey even before the fight started, but what does that have to do with the point of the topic, specifically about the low blow?

When you make a comment like that, it screams "deflection", you've made your point quite clear about how dominate you think Bud was over Khan, but putting that aside, lets just focus on what happened in round 6 and the low blow itself OK?

I don't disagree that Kovalev deserved to have a count, perhaps for being held up by the ropes, or even 5 minutes for the low blow instead of being stopped. However prior to that very last punch from Ward, Kovalev was badly hurt from legal / borderline (belt-line) shots not from a clear out of nowhere hard low blow like Khan was. And more to the point Rahim is making getting hit on the side of the cup can be worse than getting hit squarely in the cup as the cup is designed to protect a fighter from a direct shot square to the cup.

Case and point, Remember the Hopkins Roy Jones rematch? Hopkins had one of the worst low blows I've ever seen, Weeks was the ref in that fight too, Hopkins threw it when Weeks could not see where that punch landed, but that punch hit RJJ squarely in the cup, hard, and RJJ wasn't even phased by it, he just continued to fight like he wasn't even hit in the balls. So that example seems to back up what Radio Rahim was saying, that being hit squarely in the cup is less damaging than getting hit in the side of the cup.