Arthur Abraham KO2 Stjepan Bozic - One of the Shadiest Knockouts in Recent Boxing

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This happened years ago, and it wasn't a major fight.

 

There was nothing at all shady about it, he sustained a freak injury throwing a punch that got blocked on the elbow. Not a break but still painful enough to not continue. I really doubt Bozic himself was looking for a way out and exaggerated the pain to quit, as he'd actually done quite well against Abraham over their several minutes of action.

The only controversy that ever arose out of this was the argument of whether it should have gone down as a TKO2 win for Abraham or a No Contest seeing as Bozic injured himself without Abraham doing anything but stand there with his usual high guard up.

 

And just to add off of some of the posts on here. The whole point of Abraham taking this fight was to knock some rust off, go some rounds, and get some confidence back. None of this happened. So, no, nothing shady about this fight at all.

 

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It backfired so many ways.

Abraham tried to show off his newfound penchant for "body punching", remember? :rofl atsch

Jumping in and wildly slapping underhanded at Bozic's hips.

Bozic kept him on the backfoot with the jab and blocked most everything except those embarrassingly ineffective (and not even legally scoring, being mostly on the hips) body-slap flurries, and was acquitting himself quite well in those early stages for a "tune-up" before busting his paw on those big pointy elbows of AA.

 

The fact that you think that was shady, would suggest your probably a shady guy yourself.

 

I heard Faerun works as a male nurse with Alzheimer's patients and likes to mix business with pleasure. :-( :barf

 

j/k Faerun, I know you wouldn't stoop so low as to take advantage of those with Alzheimers and count on them forgetting how you defile them. :yep


You just **** the ordinary elderly folk and threaten to deny them their daily fix of Alex Trebek if they talk. :scaredas:

 

You're not at all bothered that bookies weren't taking bets on round 2 and then something like this happened?

 

Just specifically round 2 bets? Not KO bets in general?

Or round 1, 2, 3, 4, 5/ Under 9.5 round etc bets?

Can you prove this happened?

 

Not "proof" as such but the information was in the public domain

http://community.betfair.com/boxing/go/thread/view/94022/26990333/abraham-fight-about-to-start

 

It looked like a wrist injury to me. Odd but not dodgy imo

 

That doesn't really tell us anything, though.

How do we know the bookies didn't also shut down round 1, and that there wasn't just as much money on a round 1 stoppage?

People favored a guy perceived at the time as still being a top force with a big puncher's reputation to win early against an unheralded opponent, doesn't seem all that fishy to me.

Now, if you found record of a bookie having told people "I'm still taking Round 1 bets, and Round 3 bets, but NO MORE ROUND 2 BETS :fire" then that would be a little more interesting. But still only a bizarre coincidence and not conclusive proof that a fix was in.

 

Sadly its this passiveness that makes it easy to get away with questionable decisions.

Round 2 was smashed in at the bookies.

Thats what people were talking about, not round 1 or 3.

If Abraham had have KO'd him then there would be no complaint but the nature of the finish should have been investigated.