Same thing happened in Corrales vs Castillo and why, in-spite of the quality of the fight, ruined it. Why doesn't every fighter just do that to buy more time? Their needs to be stricter rules around this happening. I.e if you can't put the gumshield back in yourself, action resumed until a reasonable break in the fighting occurs to put it back in. I actually didn't mind the stoppage initially because of that tactic, and then Rico's corner messing around delaying getting it in. Almost poetic justice.
Bad refereeing. Just like bad refereeing allows fighters that come to hold all night. There's already rules in place, the refs needs to enforce them better. The ref is supposed to wait for a break in the action.
I was wondering this since a point off is a fair exchange for surviving or even breaking the rhythm of the aggressor. Maybe there’s a sort of pride thing that prevents it since it happens so fast and they revert to something like instinctive reactionary thinking within those fifteen seconds, like get the **** up, I’m alright, don’t show any weakness, I’m not losing any more points. That’s what I’d guess, people who actually fight in a ring can answer it from their perspective.
That's the rules on the back of a knockdown, because it is a break in the action. It's to get the corner to put it back in.
It must be the longer a fight goes on the mouth guard might loosen up or you get hit so hard it comes flying out. I have only had 3 round amateur bouts and have done a lot of sparring I got my mouth guard made up properly at the dentist and it stays in tight and never falls out. Only when my trainer pulled it out between rounds or when I take my gloves off and take it out myself after sparring. My boxing mouth guard is different to my old rugby league one which comes out easier and is not as solid the combat sports mouth guards are thicker and have more shock absorbing ability. The rugby league one isn't as big as you need to be able to talk properly out on the field and you are not absorbing as many knocks to the head like intentional knocks.
Too many fighters are getting saved by this bull**** rule. If a fighter intentionally spits out his mouth piece he should have a point deducted. Also when they're having a cut looked at after taking a barrage of punches, it's bull****. It's cost fighters victory like Zerafa vs Horn. It's a ****ing fight. Referees are saving fighters too with the bull**** walk forwards, walk side ways rubbish they do after a knock down.
You spit a mouth piece, or it comes out during a barrage as you get knocked down? Back in it goes, straight away. The ref is more than capable of doing this. This a gladiator sport. There isn't time for this rinsing, bobbling the mouthpiece, giving some coaching bull****. Additionally, if a fighter at ANY point intentionally spits the mouth piece like Joshua did multiple times against Ruiz, the fight is over. There are no timeouts in boxing.
He spat it out deliberately to buy himself time to recover and avoid getting knocked out which he 100% would've had he not The fact he was still so badly hurt and incapable of defending himself even after a 29 second recovery break attests to that resoundingly. Had Usyk even just had a couple more seconds, let alone 5, 10, 15 Rico would've got legit KO'd or knocked absolutely senseless and that was as clear as day even after that long delay And he should've had a point deducted for doing it too so regardless of anyone's scorecards that should've been a 10-7 round for Usyk
I guess it's hard to prove if it's deliberate or not. I've had one knocked loose when sparring before, so I get it. I'd say if it's a case of it happening too often the ref should start docking points like they would for other fouls, or even stop the fight if it can't stay in as at that point it becomes a safety issue.
Just buys them more time though i.e Corrales vs Castillo. Without that interruption, Castillo gets the KO win.
For me the answer is the consequences should stop them. But as there are very rarely any consequences I really don’t blame fighters for doing what they need to to survive. The blame lands more with the culture and poor refereeing.
