Last fight you watched that would have been stopped now?

interesting thread because there are quite a few modern day fights that even by old day standards should/would have been stopped earlier.

vargas-tito
vitali-briggs
calzaghe-lacy

bad refereeing is bad refereeing

 

Some of Jack Dempsey's fights would have been stopped earlier today. Two that quickly come to mind are Dempsey - Willard (in the first round) and Dempsey - Firpo (in the first round, and we would not have that iconic painting of Firpo knocking Dempsey out of the ring later in that same round).

 

Yeah, I was far from the only one on boxing forums at the time in 2000 that immediately criticized Nady for how long it took for him to stop Trinidad-Vargas. It’s not like 2000 was the 1950s. We had already gotten more reasonable.

That fight was only a couple months after Roy Jones-Richard Hall and Larry Merchant was saying “the ref should be pistol whipped” for taking so long to stop it.

 

Dempsey V. Firpo, quite the array of KD's and such to say the least