I am not shocked. Those things happen. It is hard to stop yourself in the middle of a combination. I, however, think that Dirrell was worse because he was faking it. The French was hit very clean. It was not the case with Dirrell who refused to fight under pressure. The French was losing it from the first second.
If rematch Bike will knock this guy out of the ring! Dirrell was acting, milking if for all he could get. He knew he was going to get knocked out, and the damned worst referee in boxing from Texas. What is that idiot's name?
Bika needed to hit something he can knock out. His big wildebeast wife can probably take his best shot and smile. She probably takes his pants off and puts them on when he comes home. Give the man a break.
It wasn't a combination. A combination is what put Mendy down, and there was a full two second gap after he took his knee while Bika loaded up the uppercut. Don't try to sugarcoat this as a momentum issue, because it wasn't one.
Mendy took a knee after a 4/5 punch combo, then Bika KO'd him with a powerful right uppercut. It was deliberate. Mendy was in all sorts of distress after the fight. It was worse than Abraham-Dirrell and certainly looked a lot harder.
I am not trying to sugercoat anything. I just think that similar things happen quite often and the officials take different approach. Most of the time fighter try to finish their opponents on their way down. It is how it works. No one shuts himself out in the middle of the action. There are gaps when you throw combinations. It is not like everything goes as one.
I get where you're coming from, but if you look at the judge at ringside he was already at the 3 count when Mendy was hit. There was a good few seconds between Mendy taking the knee and then being hit by the uppercut. You could argue a DQ for Barrera against Marquez, then again Cortez was the ref the Mendy-Bika fight maybe that's why
I dont know its very hard to stop it if you´re in the ring with all that aggression and adrenalin. I happens so often in boxing that someone tries to hit someone further while he goes down or is already down. They just miss the shots in the majority of cases or Refs do a good job to prohibit that. But its very hard to consider the opponent being down in such situations since youre pushed that much and target their heads only especially if your opponent goes down from his own action slipping or taking a knee. Jacobs for example in 2nd round didnt go down. I bet if he had taken a knee down and acted a kayo he would have won on DQ too. Or Sartison vs Gevor, Gevor got hurt and it looked like his glove touched the canvas and so Sartison went away. Some on here blamed him because he didnt go straight after Gevor to score a kayo. Dirrell himself also punched Hanshaw when he was already down. Wlad also was in danger to get DQ´d when he tried to hit Chambers who was already down i think in his recent fight. Those things shouldnt happen and theres a danger to seriously hurt the opponent but i dont put much hate on those guys because I think its mostly not intentional and could basically happen to anyone. I have also been on both ends in sparring myself i think i get it. If you attend smaller cards which often feature tune ups/mismatches i would say it happen regularly and gets regularly overlooked which is quite bad however the only thing being helpful is protect yourself at all time.
"Protect yourself at all times" isn't supposed to apply when you're on the ground (whether prostrate or on your knees).
Rules doesnt prevent you from taking such shots like Mendy has taken. Thats a jumping around on the highway sensing drivers arent allowed to run over you thing. You have to take care about yourself and its better not to turn off until the referee stepped in if you have taken a knee or slipped.
How exactly are you supposed to defend yourself on the ground? Name one example of a fighter blocking or slipping a shot while on their knees in the history of boxing, please.