The ref's count during a brutal ko

It's listed as a KO on boxrec and I believe that is the official outcome of that fight. I think they can change it when a guy is clearly unconscious and the referee just waves it off early so the doctors can get in faster.


But yea, my immediate reaction to the KO was "why is he counting?"

 

He only counted because it was so early in the fight. Normally a ref would stop it any time a fighter falls flat on his face.

 

Steve Smoger would have choked him while he was down.

 

Williams was out before he went down! He was out cold. A knockout, not a TKO.

 

Smoger would've thrown a bucket of water on him and told him to "Wake up... The fans want more blood."

 

Yes, for we know that If the downed fighter is in trouble, those extra 6 or seven seconds would make a lot of difference.

:huh



I take the opposite view.

Whenever a fighter hits the canvas (or gets floored, as some say), the count should always begin, and continue till either the dude is vertical, or ten is reached.

 

lmao!!!!

 

I think he completed the count so that Martinez would be credited with a KO and not a TKO. I felt that Pac was robbed of a legitimate KO of Hatton. That (last I recall) was ruled a TKO.

 

In both the Hatton and Williams fight, the ref could have used an "Hour Glass" for their counts since they weren't getting up any time soon.

I've seen instances where fighters were KO'ed so hard that their legs were suspended a few inches above the canvas and twitching uncontrollably. I believe when most guys gets KO'ed that bad, they're hardly ever the same fighter again.

 

This is how a ref should behave after a brutal KO. Go to 6:29...
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