Conveniently Timed Stoppages For Possibly Promotionally Pressured Propagandistic Purposes.

you're already writing that top 50 list as we speak.
can't fool us.

 

I remember Laurence Cole was a business tycoon in a life insurance firm. He was not only reffing fights but selling fighters life insurance. Something hypocritical in that position; he tended to stop fights earlier as teddy Atlas poured out that he was surely not risking paying out any life insurance from boxers families, let alone ref their fight. This was on the show the fight with teddy Atlas.

My favorite bs stoppages are Oquendo Ruiz, jawny only landed one clean punch lol. Then the fight between Peter Manfredi junior vs Joe Calzaghe, they might as well have canceled the fight and lift Joe's hand, without having a fight in the first place. Gosh what an example of poor officiating, the two were simply boxing...

 

This happens often. Especially wben a fighter is being pushed as the next best thing.
Joshua is a classic example for me.
Look at the fight vs Takam for example. Such a bs stoppage.

 

Came to say this I remember how criminal that was.

How about the opposite. If the tables was turned in the Fury/Wallin fight that would have for sure been stopped.

 

At the moment I can only think of opposite examples, fights that were let go on too long because they wanted to give the local fighter every chance to win. Anybody who watched Pride will know that the Japanese fighters were given way too much time in there, where other fighters would have been stopped. This resulted in some horrific beatings because they themselves were too brave for their own damn good.

 

It's one of the most infuriating areas of corruption because the reward is so small. You're fixing the end just so some commentator can say "he stopped X one round faster than Y did."

What does that even accomplish? Make the guy a cool promo video it probably has twice the impact and you don't have to ruin the sport in the process.

 

I think their should be a lot more stoppages when the fight is nothing more then a beatdown and 1 guy wins every round.
Povetkin was just violating wach to the absolut core, it was nothing more then target practice and should have bern weaved off much earlier.
I think to many people died in this sport to keep on doing this.
Also quitting should be more excepted like in the case of walters, i myself know how horrible it is when you face somebody who is just 3 classes above you and you become nothing more then a punching bag.

 

Kovalev was hit in the balls three times against Ward, but he only had two balls at the time- one ball too late.

 

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Wilder Ortiz 2.

Okay I'll admit Ortiz looked confused af when he was on the floor. But look at the time. Ortiz got on his feet and the bell would have rung immediately after resuming action, but that scumbag ref calls it off. At least give the guy a chance, he may have recovered during the rest period given he was able to get on his feet. Not to mention Ortiz recieved pretty much only one punch the entire fight and was beating the **** out of Wilder

This is another example of Wilders promotion taking no risks, they had to call it off there.. Imagine if Ortiz had recovered, they weren't gonna risk that. Look at the body language of the ref as the count approaches 10 he just wants to call it off regardless

 

Canelo against Yildrum. One flash knockdown scored and after that almost everything was blocked. Yildrum even shook Canelo up with a counter left hook. The corner was going to let it go for at least one round but since Young CHRIS brutally ended Yildirim in three rounds they had to save face somehow.

 

Tyson vs Ferguson. Jesse was giving Tyson a good fight, but was starting to feel the power of Tyson's shots, and wasn't really liking it. He often reverted to infighting to keep himself safe, but once he'd started to be warn down, infighting became holding. He was disqualified for it (whether rightly or wrongly is a different matter all together), and it was overturned to be a KO, so Tyson could keep his 100% KO record.

Vicente Saldivar's first loss (to Baby Luis) was complete bull****. I don't know the ins and outs, since it's in Spanish, but I remember being told by someone who does speak Spanish that it was some form of disqualification, but it happened before the start of the eight round, and went down as a TKO. Some dodgy officiating there :lol

And Marcel vs Duran. Very bad stoppage IMO, as Marcel was stopped for inactivity, I believe. Which is criminal. It was the final round, Marcel was just looking to see out the final minute or so, and they threw him under the bus because of how big Duran was in Panama. Shame, because Marcel was one incredible fighter as well. You have to be to beat Arguello.

 

That was a blatant fix imo along with Kovalev.. I've seen sparring footage between the two of going harder.. This is a Malik Scott Wilder esque blatant dive imo...compare Yildrim performance against Eubank he was throwing punches at Eubank as he was getting knocked out by several punches ... So now Canelo just mysteriously stops boxers throwing punches at all and boxers now have zero heart... A boxer who doesn't even try to throw or land punches is simply not there to win... Even if the guy is a good counterpuncher a boxer coming to win does not not throw punches and take risks

 

I don't think that Pov had been winner via gift because he still had won this one on any fair and honest judges cards.
He battered Wach, had landed on him x more than he get from Wach and overall too looked considerably better all fight. Then Pov was this version with normal legs.

Stoppage yeah, I think was not necessity here.