Did Coetzee throw the Bruno bout ?

He absolutely threw the fight. Watch the video....while on his back he opens his eyes, looks around, then closes them.

McVey was at this bout, and he strongly disagreed with me here once before but he doesn't post here anymore so I'm right this time.

 

Seemed to me he was washed up tbh

 

id say no he didn't throw the fight in the sense of he thought going into the fight I'm going to lose .

 

Mcvey doesn't post here anymore

Is he ok

 

Nah.

Gerrie was on the decline having had his chin cracked by Page. Dokes was his last really impressive performance and it was three years before the Bruno fight.

 

I went to this fight.
Bruno was on the up and peaking, Coetzee was past his best by some way.
Anything else is just rumours & hearsay.
I just remember big Frank landing a mighty KO in round 1.

 

That said the ko blow wasn't that convincing.

 

I'm not sure about him throwing the fight, didn't Bruno land with a sledgehammer on him.
I don't believe he came prepared tho, maybe there realizing his time had come and wasn't confident again Big Frank.

 

He is just done here, he teased us with his leavings a few time classic in return proved we deserved him only for a time it would seem as souls would continue worshiping our divine saviour Carnera and modern fighters did he leave us with a broken heart and shattered trust... he was a good poster...

 

Yes, but sadly his time machine went to Moorer/Foreman rather than than Tyson/Seldon when deciding how to throw it.

 

I believe Frank knocked him out legitimately,,just my 2 cents

 

In the end, it seems that the winner of McVey vs Mendoza is ... nobody.

 

He ended up with his head hanging unsupported over ring edge, someone then supported his head and he opened his eyes, my take was that was a natural reaction, a KO'd fighter is not necessarily unconscious, just altered consciousness, so my view was it was a legit ko, but there is only one person who could definitively answer the question that is Coetzee himself.

 

I've read this Lewis biography and recall the book's mention of Coetzee throwing the Bruno bout. However, I couldn't find anything else to substantiate the claim made by the author and, to be honest, just looking at the fight and how it went, doesn't lend the allegation any credibility.