Headbutt being ignored by the media?

Update:

Jake Donovan of MaxBoxing replied and explained his perspective, the story on MaxBoxing was a first draft, an updated article noting the butt was posted later elsewhere. He acknowledges the butt, though gives the body shot more significance that I do, and gives more credit to Holt than I did. Classy guy, no doubt.

Tim Starks of MVN.com also replied, he's a cool guy who was among the first to point out the butt, and agreed that the body shot didn't look very significant.

Graham Houston replied earlier this morning, it was a bit of a misunderstanding, I replied this evening.

 

Wow when I watch the butt in super slow motion, it becomes more debatable whether it was intentional or not.

san rafael, good analysis. There was no reason for Holt to step forward the way he did, it gained him no advantage to ram into Torres unintentionally. It looked like he threw everything he had into the body shot and a result changed his pivot stance, but after the body shot, there is no tactical reason to explain why Holt plowed forward and upward besides going for a headbutt. Notice his fists weren't in position to throw anything and he didn't release any meaningful punch, the only thing that could have connected in that sequence was his head, and it did.

It's debatable what his intention was when he rose up, whether he wanted a clash of heads for a pause, a ref break-up and warning, etc., but there is no tactical reason to explain Holt's movement other than an intention to clash heads, which in this case gave him a HUGE advantage and took Torres out.

This is terrible. I was polite about Holt's intentions to my emails, but upon further review, you could definitely make the case that Holt had bad intentions.

 

Ugh. In several post-fight write-ups, including Fischer's at Max, they write that the butt was as muich Torres' fault as Holt's, and that Torres ran into Holt's head.

Upon watching that replay frame by frame, a different story emerges. Holt had his head well in front of his fists the entire sequence, and was moving forward and upward head first, not in position to land any meaningful punch.

He is not an inside fighter and is not going for the clinch, when closing the gap there is nothing meaningful thrown or landed, in that small gap the only meaningful shot that could have landed was his head.

This is really ****ed up. Holt is being celebrated like Rocky when in fact he may have cheated. Torres may have suffered a career-ending knockout in this turn of events rather than a (likely) spectacular knockout for himself.

 

Thanks bro. I wouldn't have bothered to review the clip again if you hadn't pointed out Holt's subtle and unusual movements indicating intent, you caught on to that first no doubt.