Chamber's corner!!!!!

I see what you're saying, maybe you're right. If theres one thing I would've told him would be to use his right to parry Wlad's jab to the left, and sidestep to his own right and throw a right. Otherwise, nothing they could say would've helped. As for the telling him to use head movement, you could hear them yell "move your head" every round. Even the British commentators mentioned it.

 

Truth. He has some serious skills, but he's just too small and doesn't have Mike's mad strength to hold up against much bigger men.

 

That corner should've stopped the fight as well. Why they aren't taking heat over that is a mystery as well. They knew they were fighting in a foreign land and hopelessly down on the cards. And Wlad was still firing in there.

The worst ko's are those take a beating and get brutally ko'd late endings. It's so tough to rebound from that. The heavyweights sure don't recover very well from that kind of ending and it can put a good fighter into journeyman status. Why take the chance on that kind of outcome in a fight you are not going to win? Throw in the towel and re-group and try coming back in a year or two. Now you have a massive rebuilding project and it just did not have to be that way.