Should the first 'knockdown' in Fury vs Wilder II have counted?

Sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere but shouldn't the referee have waved this off as no knockdown as the punch landed on the back of Wilder's head?

(Not that it would have made much difference to the outcome.)

 

It's where a punch lands that determines whether it's a foul not where the punch was aimed.

 

A referee can only make a decision based on what he sees, he isn't a mind reader.

Are you suggesting that a referee should deduct a point from a fighter for landing a clean punch if he suspects that he was actually trying to hit his opponent below the belt but missed??

 

But I didn't say that Fury should have been warned or had a point deducted. I said that the punch landed on the back of Wilder's head and therefore it should not have counted as a knockdown.

You were talking about where the fighter 'aims' the punch which is very difficult to determine.

Using other examples as similar instances isn't really the point. I'm not saying that this was a unique, unprecedented incident in boxing.

The fact that it has happened elsewhere doesn't mean that it should have counted as a knockdown.

 

I didn't say there should be.

If you want to use other examples, I would say that Hagler vs Roldan was a similar case.

People often say (rightly, in my opinion) that this should not have been ruled as a knockdown.

I think the same thing applies here.

 

You're missing my point. I didn't say those examples aren't valid.

Just because there are many examples of a particular mistake being made doesn't make it less of a mistake.

I don't agree that correctly waving off a knockdown is a penalty. If a knockdown is not legitimate then the knockdown should be waved off and the fight carries on from there. No one has been penalised.

Anyway... Have a nice day and I mean that genuinely and not sarcastically.

 

Look... Please... Just read what I wrote...

I didn't ask if the decision should have been retrospectively reversed either during the fight or after it had finished.

I asked if the referee should have waved off the first knockdown there and then because the punch landed on the back of Wilder's head.

 

In other words the referee should have waved it off if he had the benefit of seeing what we saw?