Gary Antuanne Russell---Barthelemy stoppage

if he was fine he woulda had eye contact with the ref and put his hands up. he did nothing to show the ref he wanted to continue.

 

you been following boxing for how many hours?

 

You should see some of the British stoppages then

 

the ref did his job, rance was non compliant.......walks away turning his back. good stoppage

 

I agree.

 

Early stoppages is seriously hurting the image of boxing. As low skill as MMA is at least they let their fighters go out on their shield.

 

i dont understand how anybody thinks that was a bad stoppage. Blame the fighter for not following standard protocal. guy was acting like a hurt fighter from all my knowledge. Guys hurt doesnt even know where hes at or what hes doing.......ya send him back out there to take unecessary shots. people are out there.

 

anybdy thinks thats a bad stoppage, explain why? Anybody whos fought knows protocal after a knockdown and nobody whos ok to continue gets up turns his back and walks away from the ref. sorry.

 

He was looking right at the ref , the ref said nothing and stopped it. Incredibly bad

 

If I have to explain , then you wouldn't understand

 

Terrible stoppage

 

This is why I hate other sports letting gambling operations get so deeply involved. Boxing has always had the gambling element (like horse racing) and has always had the shadiness element (like horse racing).

MLB has all time greats serving lifetime bans for betting on baseball and also has an official betting on baseball sponsor of every game. The hypocrisy is too much.

Now that I've seen it (missed it live) it's borderline to me, but far from a truly terrible stoppage.

What I don't like:

1. There's this long hesitation, the ref needs to be decisive.
2. The fighter and corner seem legitimately surprised, what was said before the fight?

Shouldn't a ref with that amount of experience have decided what he's going to do before this pretty expected situation comes up? Combine that with it just causing the under to hit and it looks bad even if the decision is defensible.

 

I've seen way worse. A lot of you guys just hate PBC fighters and want to complain

 

One of my top 5 EVER and I’ve been following the sport for over 40 years of my life.

 

Too early. Barthelemys legs didnt look too good but he look good enough to keep fighting.