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Abdulkerim Khalidovich Edilov vs. Richard Nii Lartey Harrison, 8 rounds @ heavyweight

 

What the heck was that?!

I'm often skeptical of fans saying fights are dives because of the weird appearance of a knockout, but...

Hardly a minute in, the hulking Russian wound up a big left hook off the hip, aimed behind the right ear of the 6'5" roly-poly Ghanaian super heavyweight... and then Edilov collapsed atop him after Lartey fell, which itself would make this a pretty funny bit of boxing slapstick, but my problem (and it looks even worse on the slow motion replays) is that Lartey sagged his knees and began the act of falling before the hook was even halfway toward landing on him.

 

...and they stretchered him out?? For a single left hook? That he seemed to anticipate, by starting to fall a second before it caught him?

You ask me, something's rotten in the state of Chechnya...

 

Why are you talking about this like some past event; are you confusing it with something else? This happened like ten minutes ago.

 

...oh, alright - but what you were quoting there is a tweet containing a video showing a KO (which I highly suspect was a dive) that literally just happened. Not some other Lartey dive from a past card. When you quote a tweet and say "everyone on the forum wanted to kill me when I said it was a dive" and provide no additional context, people are going to assume you mean the video in the quoted tweet and not...whatever else.

 

Ok, got that now, but nowhere did you specify that and you can't assume that everyone saw that and/or is reading your mind.

 

Islam Vakhaevich Edisultanov vs. László Tóth, 10 rounds @ super welterweight

 

Just had a quick peek and yeah, he seems to be a chronic offender. Still, though, you needed to have clarified what you were talking about in your initial response to @Chuck Norris. Absolutely no reason to assume that anybody would have the foggiest what you meant by "it" being a dive, other than Edilov vs. Lartey just now (since, you know, that's what you quoted to reply ). Not everyone is going to have caught every same card as you, and certainly not many people are all that obsessed with Fabio freaking Wardley or have him on their minds at any given moment.

Yeesh, main event of that Conor Benn vs. Sebastian Formella? Pretty sure I missed that one on purpose.