Yeah, hell of an adjustment, got the ****ing brakes beaten off of him in the 11th, clipped him with a grazing shot, Kholmatov's leg buckles from the torn ACL, Ford throws him down, he gets back up, tries to run out the clock, which is hard when you have one leg, the ropes hold him up, the ref overreacts and waves it instead of giving him a count. One of the most corrupt debacles I've seen in years, which at this point, has sadly become a monthly statement from me.
It was more then that dawgie, Ford was about to get wiped out & KO’d himself in the 1st 4-5 rounds. Ford made adjustments, dug deep & turned it around … literally turned his opponent around. I supposed the ref could have neglected his job or let him go till he knocked him spark out. But , Truthfully he was done Chin cracked, back turned, arse exposed & getting hit flush with every shot. it was unfortunate but it’s part of boxing part of life.
I read the thread before I watched it and was expecting something really egregious like him not being hurt at all or they're being a knockdown and a pause and the ref taking time to examine him. He was staggered stumbled across the ring had his stomach to the ropes with his head either on or under the rope and he was getting hit I don't know how you don't stop that fight
Totally bogus stoppage, right up there with Richard Steele's horrible call in the Chavez-Taylor fight - still the standard for horrid, corrupt stoppages. Kholmatov was robbed of his well-earned victory by a corrupt ref almost certainly in the pocket of a powerful promoter, just like Steele was for King.
It was a fine stoppage. You can't turn your back and fall into the ropes like that. An example where the referee did not get there in time was Gvozdyk/Stevenson, as Stevenson has stumbled into the ropes defenseless and took one more shot he didn't need to take. Can't blame the referee from wanting to prevent a punch like that. Mind you, Kholmatov was going to lose on the official cards anyway. *That* is the real source of controversy.
Referee actually did him a favor by not calling the first KD. Not his fault K would not hold. Besides, the judges already had it in the bag for Ford. The scoring once again is the problem, not the referee.
Two of the judges had it for Kholmatov!! The fact that one of them had it for Ford is absurd, but thankfully would have been irrelevant but for the unjustified and corrupt actions of this ref!
You watched it but didn't pay enough attention to know whether his head was tangled in the ropes or not?